Day 41 – Mauritius

Oct 8th

The Island
We spent the day docked in Mauritius to refuel the ship. The island’s white sandy beaches were surrounded by crystal-clear, blue water. It looked absolutely beautiful, but I was happy we weren’t getting off, seeing as SAS would overpopulate the small island and the port would be nothing more than a week-long Spring Break.

Day’s Events
In Global Studies, Professor Scott made three boys strip down to their boxers in class as a demonstration of the globalization of American culture. It definitely woke up the 70 students who had completely passed out during Professor Addikutty’s lecture on Ghandi’s world vision. In the afternoon, we had the opening ceremonies for the Sea Olympics. Brit, Becca and I gathered a group of our Arabian Sea comrades in a room for an impromptu dance party as we geared up in black clothes and painted our faces. We practiced our cheer, which was set to the tune of ‘Men in Black’:

“We are the sea in black,
The sea to remember,
We are the sea in black
Arabs till December”

(We disembark in Miami in December, hence we are the Arabian Sea till December.) I wore my bad-ass pleather jacket and shades. We even got Jonah to dress up as Aladdin, our mascot. He wore a small black vest, puffy black sweat-pants and a red fez (flat-topped conical hat worn by men in Muslim countries). The ladies added some extra touches like black eyeliner and black, curly chest hair. He looked awesome and we jammed into the Union as a group with our speakers blaring.

Highs and Lows
My “high” was realizing we have Sea Olympics tomorrow! My “low” was seeing ‘The Predator’ topless.