Initiation!

66.33degrees South, pam pam paam!!
It all started last night with the Night of the Bears where we all got sent to our cabins and told we had to stay there and wait... The yelling, banging sounds, and screams from down the corridor only increased the nervous excited feeling we all had. So then EVENTUALLY, after what felt like forever, these 6 (or 8 maybe, I can't remember) HUGE dudes burst into our room and threw us on the floor. Yes threw, I totally have a blue bruise on my forehead to prove it!
They then emptied a bottle of water out on us and if we even tried to move we got a wack with a paddle or a nudge in the ribs with a boot. King Neptune (aka Mr DCO man) then came in and read some ridiculous offense that each of us is charged with. Mine was being the friendliest emo ever.

While our sentences were being read out, the one Bear had his shoe right there by my face, so I figured his shoelaces needed some rearranging, so I kindly undid them for him, only to get a klap when he retied them, so I undid them again (I was seriously only trying to help, promise!!), but then after the next time he redid them he pinned me down with his knee and held both my hands and one of the others lifted my jacket and threw like a ton of water out on me. Was so worth it!
Today we all had to report to the Helipad to get our punishment and ask King Neptune if we may please pass over his polar circle. Everyone had to lie face down till they read your name and you got up, got dunked in a bath filled with freezing sea water, got egged by King Neptune, floured by his wife, smeared with this puke-smelling stuff, and then finally they squirted some weird tabasco mix in your mouth. The last two were the worst and a few people actually mock charged there..

After we were all cleaned up (which actually took longer than you would think), we had a braai on the Helipad. The boys had a competition to see who could fish out the biggest piece of ice, and 1st and 2nd place went to Fred, Janneman and Barend. We even had a few curious penguins come by to see what we were up to. Very cute (pink poo and all)!