Day 89. Evolution test done, Talent Show.

Tonight was such a great night. The big "Explorer's got Talent" show kicked off in the Union at 2000 hours, and featured upward of 30 acts from students, faculty, lifelong learners and staff.

Some of the performances, like Dave's poetry reading and the last song about how the voyage is ending in a few days will forever be with me. I already am trying to find a video of many of the performances so that I can watch them in the future.

Jill and I of course debuted our second song, entitled "On Land." It went over great, and was complete with two costume changes that happened during the act. We got the first standing ovation of the night and everybody loved it. Jerry, the vidographer, told us that he is going to cut a part of the performance in the voyage video- which would be awesome.

As I write, I'm sitting up in the piano lounge with like 15 friends. After the show, we all just collapsed here and made a giant circle. We have been eating our faces full and playing card games and making fun of eachother for about 2 hours now. It's the moments like these that I am truly going to miss. The world, it seems, will be around for a few more years at least- this community, however, has an expiration date- and it's creeping up on us. Sitting in the union, I realized how much of a community we really are. I know SO many people, and SO many people know me. Even the ones I don't know I recognize, and it's going to be too weird when this community splits up. Ah. Don't wanna dwell!

I'm gonna crash in bed. Only 2 more days til Hawaii!!!! Very excited.


Love from the Pacific.

Greg