Hold on to Your Togas, We are going to Greece: Part 1

At the end of September, we were in the death throws of several midterms: West Civ I and Western Theo Trad, topped off by an Art and Arch Quiz. Sad to say, but by the end of these midterms and homework for other classes many of us were thinking that a weekend of hibernation would be perfect rather than a fast-paced ten days in Greece. Thankfully by the time we woke up at five on Friday to get on our buses that would take us to the coast and to our ferry. Our Ferry was the "Superfast XII" and once aboard, most of us proceeded to go right to sleep. In our defense most of us had been up later studying for exams, doing laundry, packing and the bus ride was more than five hours long. After a delightful nap, we enjoyed a dinner of Greek spaghetti. After dinner I walked around the cruise -like ship and talked with friends while enjoying one of the best cups of hot chocolate I have ever had. (Mom- you would have loved it!) That night I slept so well because the rocking of the boat made me drowsy to begin with. The next morning, everyone got up and packed up and prepared to get off the ferry at Patras, Greece. At the port of Patras, we dragged our bags off the boat and dumped them unceremoniously onto a bus…yes I said another bus. I had signed up for bus number 2 which we called the Alphabus. In order to be able to do roll call on our buses more quickly we were each assigned a number. ( I was number 7, it’s a good number :) ) During the ten days we had to do roll with numbers, we would have our RA on the bus time us and we did roll call with 23 people in less than 15 sec. It got to be a game itself. After everyone got settled in their seats, we would get really quiet to hear the first person yell "ONE!" After we got on our Greek buses for the first time, we drove for a little while before we got to the first stop on our epic trip! Stay Tuned for more parts :)