talent show!!!!!

We are on day 3 of our 5 day sail to Casablanca, Morocco from Egypt.  Today is a no class day, which is always nice.  Last night, however, was probably the best night on the boat so far... it was the Crew Talent Show!!!!

 

The talent show started after one of our Explorer Seminars, so me and my friends went to the Union before the seminar to get good seats... unfortunatley a ton of people had the same idea, but we still got seats and they were pretty good.  We actually reached capacity in the Union and had to send people out and into satellite classrooms to watch the show.. there were people sitting everywhere!!

 

The talent show started at 9 with a band who sang 3 songs, and they were really good!  There were two singers, two kids on guitars, and a drummer.. they were sooo good!! 

After that another big group sang a Christian song which was really good too. 

Next one of the crew members who just got on a couple weeks ago sang two songs by himself.. they were old love songs I think and he was an older guy.. and he was amazzing!!! he sang really really well and half of the audience gave him a standing ovation!

  Next was one of my favorite parts.. it was a group of the crew that works in the dining halls and they did a dance... it was awesome!  they were all in sunglasses and some of them had their shirts unbuttoned.. it was really funny but they were really good.. even one of the older guys who works in the dining halls was dancing in it and he was really good too.  i'm pretty sure they got a standing ovation after that performance!! 

next was a solo by one of the housekeeping staff who sang a song i feel like i should know the title to, but i dont.. but he sang really really good! 

next up was 3 of the 'girl' crew members who did a dance to beyonce's single ladies... it was really good, but why i said 'girl' was b/c the lead who was beyonce was actually a boy.. but the other 2 were girls! haha.. 

next was another dance group with 5 of the crew and they were really good too... they did a mix of a song i forget and gasolina.. it was funny....

next up was one of my good friends thats works in the dining halls.. hes from jamaica so he did a reggae song by bob marley, and he was dressed in all jamaican gear! it was funny!!  

after that was a group of 3 of the cabin stewards (not mine tho) and they did a dance to 'low' by Flo Rida.. im not even kidding.. it was sooo funny!!! 

next up was a solo by our IT captain.. the guy in charge of all the technology stuff.. and he sang an italian opera song and it was amazing!!! i would have never thought he could sing like that, it was soo good!!  

after him was the 'girl' who was beyonce before and she/he was dressed like a nun and supposedly it was a part from the sister act.. but she/he sang and danced and did some weird drawing on an easle with fingerpaint and it ended up being a face and said 'Jesus Christ' under it..??

up next was a solo by one of the guys who sang in the first set of songs of the show.. he was really good too, but i forget what he sang but i think it was a religious song

after that was 2 of the younger guys who work in the dining hall and they both did performances by themselves with wine bottles, like doing flare as if they were a bartender.. it was really cool and i want them to teach me! haha

last was a performance by a tooon of the crew (my cabin steward was finally in this one!!!) and they sang a song about the world i think.. and they all had flags of different countries.. it was cool.

 

the talent show was sooo much fun.. its soo funny to see the crew today who i saw perform yesterday b/c they were totally out of the element that we usually see them.. singing and dancing and not in their uniforms!!!  one of the guys that was a dancer in most of the dance groups im friends with from the dining hall and i always talk to him.. and i saw him earler today and stopped him to tell him he was amazing last night!!!  my friend lina works with the technology stuff and she's gonna try to get me a copy of the show so i can show ppl when i get home! i hope she does b/c i tried to take videos but they're only parts of each act!

 

OOOH and more good news.. 2 nights ago we got to set our clocks forward, and tonight we get to tooo!! so tomorrow we'll only be 5 hours ahead, and by the time we get to morocco we will be only 4 hours ahead!  im excited to get an extra hour of sleep tonight!!