February 4, 2011... Almost to Africa.

Today is February 4, 2011 and we arrive in Takoradi, Ghana on the 6th at 0800.
Sea Olympics happened yesterday.  It was a lot more fun than I had ever anticipated it would be.  It really was pretty wild.  I ended up leading the chants at every opportunity and we seriously had the most intense team.  The Aegean Sea ended up placing 2nd out of the 10 participating teams.  I was pissed.  We were the loudest and most rowdy and received no points for that.  Regardless, we still get to be second off the ship when we reach San Diego in the end.  I participated in the dodge ball tournament and unfortunately was unable to watch any of the synchronized swimming.  Heard it was hilarious… consisted of a bunch of big men putting together themed routines.  I did get to see the winning routine however, which was choreographed to Celine Dion’s “My Heart Will Go On” They ended with a reenactment of Jack dyeing in The Titanic.  Kress, you would have loved it.
Have not seen land in 7 days.  Pretty upsetting.  2 days away from getting wild and crazy in Ghana, Updates to come on that.  People are really restless with only 2 days of classes left, and having not seen anything for a long time.  Today we saw another ship, that’s about it…literally the only thing we have seen in a week. Yay