Daily Updates
Week Three: April 6
6 April: Sarah Murray and Kari reporting: Stumbling off the boat from Crete at 6 am, we collectively fell to our knees, kissing the solid earth of The Piraeus (the port of Athens) after a windy, tumultuous, nausea-inducing night at sea. Everyone snarled at the early morning air and trooped onto the subway for a quick ride back up to Athens and our Hotel, the Achilleas. We had the day off, and Washing filthy clothes was the main objective for everyone, so once we had stuffed all of our super-rank underwear into illicitly acquired plastic trash bags, we scattered through the city in a frantic search for Laundromats that were open on Sunday. Kari, Oregon state-champion seamstress, along the lines of righting clothes that had been wronged by our week on Crete, spent all day in an epic duel with Sarah Murray’s extensively torn jeans. Others exercised their knuckles in everyone’s favorite E-Z internet café around the corner, writing long emails to their hysterical parents, despairing significant others, and interested friends, while Anais chose to exercise her vocal cords instead, innovatively using a little-known machine called the ‘telephone’. Randy accompanied Ani back down to the Piraeus where she bought another ticket to Crete, where she plans to go for her ISP work later this month. Chris ate three Souvlaki with no apparent discomfort in an impressive display of gastrointestinal efficiency, while Evan, once again, spent a lavish amount of money at the candy store. Though he seems to have harnessed his Mento-aholism, he still struggles daily with the paradoxical nexus twixt his passion for confection and his equally unyielding desire to protect his teeth, figure, and idealism from all consumptive decay. All in all, it was a relaxing day in the capital, capped off by a pleasant surprise in the form of a visit to the hotel by Professor Rutter, who most of us know from our prerequisite courses back at Dartmouth, and a hefty helping of anticipation for our trip to the Peloponnese, scheduled to begin tomorrow.
6 April: Low Profile Leadership