I cannot be more pumped for Cape Town. As I’ve said in a previous post, I have very high expectations for this week- possibly too high. Regardless I am sure it’s going to be awesome. Amanda has been slaving away and doing my bidding- making reservations for various activities, giving my friends advice, and more importantly determined to show me a good time. She has even asked for an extension on a paper because I am coming to town… For those of you are clueless about my Amanda, Sussman, Mands, or Sussy references, Amanda is one of my best friends at Michigan and studying abroad in Cape Town. After my two day Safari which starts tomorrow, I will be spending the remainder of the port stay with her! As if Africa Day did not put me in the Cape Town mood already (I went to a seminar on Great White Sharks, saw Invictus, etc.) for the past couple days we have been sailing so close to land that I literally look out my window and see the motherland. Let me tell you, it’s a pretty legit sight to wake up to.
Since we are heading around the Cape of Good Hope, the ship has begun rocking heavily- at times it has been as bad as the Ensenada-Hawaii stretch of the voyage. Luckily I have not been feeling sea sick. You can really feel the rocking as you go to higher decks on the ship. The pool water on deck seven usually crashes back and forth and over the edges of the pool causing a Sea World type of “splash zone.” It’s actually comical to watch the pool water crash back and forth onto unsuspecting tanners.
Apart from amusing myself by watching other students get soaked by the pool water not too much has been going on since Mauritius. The real dodgeball tournament began and although we won in Sea Olympics my dodgeball career has ended prematurely in this tournament. Our team, consisting of the same members that were on the gold medal team, won our first two games and made it to the quarterfinals. Unfortunately our winning streak did not last. Let’s just say that I got pummeled by a dodgeball thrown by a boy or beast that everybody on the ship refers to as “Tank.” You can use your own imagination for my fall. It was too bad we played this team early on- we beat a team in Sea Olympics that advanced to the semis on the other side of the bracket. Bad luck for us. 3 v 3 soccer is up next.
We had a lovely sedar on the ship last night and approximately 125 people showed up for it including a lot of non-Jews which was great. I had matzah ball soup which I could not have been more excited about. The highlights of the sedar included my table being the most audible Dayenu singers. We rocked it. After Sedar there was the Crew Talent Show in which members of the crew perform their many talents. Duh. It was great watching mostly Filipino crew members, rock out to Greenday and Blink 182. Let me just say, our crew is VERY talented.
The last noteworthy occurrence that has happened on this Mauritius-Cape Town stretch of the voyage is that I have FINALLY finished the Sex and the City Series. I have seen every episode since I bought the series for $20 in Cambodia. Now I have to find a new show to take up my time. As a result of actively pursuing this Sex and the City goal, I have only made it through 200 pages of Mandela’s autobiography. My goal was to finish it by South Africa but it doesn’t look like that is going to happen. Sorry Nelson.
200 nautical miles outside of Cape Town, safari tomorrow, Sussman the next day- game on.
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