Royan Orientation (Part 2)

I left off on our boat ride home(this is gross but one of the girls who was sitting near me actually threw up I am scared for life...)....this leads up to the best part overall. THE FARRIS WHEEL RIDE!!!! Yes I agree it was a strange way to end this ....interesting day. We got to watch the beginnings of the sunset from 300 feet in the air and our seat was absolutely filled with hilarious Americans. I have to tell you I have never laughed so much in one weekend. and

On with the weekend. When we got back to camp it was time to practice our talents.....or the lack there of. I decided to sing....with a bad cold. No worries everyone one loved my song and said it was the highlight of our talent show. Other acts included a parody of "Call me Maybe", A dance to a very weird French song, the Brazilians doing some sexy dancing, the Asians singing a song from Guam, and the Americans which did some sign language.

(Me singing at the preshow!) Though really the crowning moment of our night is when each country had to sing our national anthem. Us Americans were sure that we were going to kill the competition. Sadly that was not the case. Our rendition of our glorious National anthem was brought to a dead stop at "the rockets red glare" because no one could sing high enough (except me and I stopped because I was hit with an uncontrollable case of the giggles when everyone dropped a key in the middle of the song) It was the most embarrassing and funniest experience of my life. Our talent show/dinner ended at 1 in the morning when I proceeded right to bed with my terrible cough and cold. The next day our activity included lunch....which involved fire and raw seafood. Now when I say that they set our lunch on fire I actually mean they put the mussels on wooden board,covered them with pine needles, and set them on fire.

The most interesting part of all of this is that when they are set on fire they scream! The rotarians assured me that its just the air in their shells being sucked out slowly....gee that's much better! The saddest part of the weekend was saying goodbye. I have never met so many people that understand my feelings so deeply. We are all going through the same thing and we all have the same problems. I am so glad that Rotary gives us the chance to share together at these weekend!