Neptune Day began with the crew dressing up in togas like Greek soldiers and marching up and down the hallways beating drums and blowing whistles. After breakfast we headed to Deck 7 and before the festivities began a bunch of guys performed and impromptu synchronized swimming performance. The crew marched up to the deck followed by King Neptune (the captain in green body paint) and his queen. The initiation began with the poem and then the festivities began to transform us from pollywogs to shellbacks. First we had a delightfully dreadful brown fish guts mixture poured onto our heads and then we jumped into the pool to clean it off. By the time I got to that step in the procession the pool was a brownish, gray color. The next step in the procession was to climb out of the pool and kiss a big, dead fish and then go pay respect to King Neptune by kissing his ring. It finally concluded with the sword being tapped on each of our shoulders (kind of like being knighted).
After lunch, Steve, Ari, and I went back to my room where we finished off our initiation by shaving our heads. They all ended up being ok by the time we were done considering neither of them had ever shaved their heads.
In the afternoon I went to go watch the “Global Studies Trivia/ Jeopardy Game” that Kira put together. The game had some faculty members competing against one another to see if they had paid attention in Global Studies.
The day was a lot of fun and was a nice break from having to do anything. The one ironic part was that we still didn’t cross the equator. We don’t do that until around 5pm tomorrow.
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