The Long Journey From Cape Town to India

Hello…so this boat must have made my mind a bit loopy, but I forgot to post this brief entry updating you all on life at sea. I wrote this before we got India…enjoy.

Hello All:
I just thought I would give a quick update before we arrive to India. This has been the longest stretch on the boat thus far and is the longest time we will have to be on the boat, it has been 11 days. It has gone by really fast thanks to all the midterms we have had this week. We have spent this stretch studying and writing papers it feels like, but now we will have a nice break. Classes on the boat have proved to more challenging than expected, but we are still “making it work.”
On our day off we had the Sea Olympics which basically is a day full of relays, games, and competitions. Your team is determined by your “sea” or floor that you live on. Our sea name is the Caribbean Sea. The whole day was lots of fun and we all dressed in orange to support our team color. I (Maggie) competed in the orange pass (where you can’t use your hands and have to pass an orange down the line)…naturally I dropped the orange but I was at the beginning and our team still managed to win. I also competed in the paper boat contest where we had 4 sheets of paper, a spoon, and a 10 inch piece of tape to make a boat. Our boat did really well. The pool had to be drained that day so we had to float our boats in buckets. Our boat lasted 30 minutes, at that point we had to add water and a spoon to the boat and our boat sadly got 2nd but I was still proud of my boat making skills!
That night we had a “Gods and Godesses” dance on the 7th deck which provided us with a nice excuse to get dressed in our best goddesses-esque clothing. Needless to say our options were limited to the clothes we brought with us but we still managed. The dance was lots of fun except it was on the 7th deck when it was extremely rocky so dancing basically consisted of us running into one another.
Right now Amber is reading a book called Shantram. It was recommended to us in Namibia and now all of our friends are reading it. I have just started but I would recommend it if you are looking for a read. It is set in India so it has made us very excited to get to the city!
That is all for now, expect to hear from me again very soon!
Love,
Maggie