Day 14 Homeward Bound

Here are the second half of the student's final comments:

Rodes and Mykonos were both amazing, and possibly the two best places that we have been to on this trip…..(except for the Vatican) I can only hope that one day I’ll be able to go there again, and hopefully stay longer.
Hotel was TOTALLY INSANE…. Having seconds thoughts about Italian guys.
Love how Emily almost got mugged by Mitchell H.
-Monika

This whole trip to Europe has been an absolutely amazing experience. All the sites, all the people and things we’ve experienced in just 2 weeks have been outstanding and I still feel as if I haven’t quite seen everything. While I’m happy to be going home, I am going to miss all the excitement of traveling and of having Italians disrupt us at 6:30 in the morning as well as sketchy apartments outside our hotel. I definitely hope to find myself back in Rome and the Greek Islands sometime soon.
- Dylan™


I have had an amazing time on this trip. All the things I have seen have been incredible! Some places have been the most beautiful things I have ever seen. Our tour guide was awesome and super nice. We had great hotels and the cruise was very nice. The Greek Islands were fun and the weather was great…maybe not so much in the Plaka in Athens. The whole thing was amazing and I can’t wait to go back in the future.
-Rebecca. Mair


This trip was a life changing experience for me. I learned a lot about modern European culture and I hope to explore more of it soon. I was lucky not to get sick and regardless of how much sleep I had (or lack of it), I still enjoyed everything tremendously!
-Mitchell Morales


-The Acropolis of Corinth, and Mycenae were the tzatziki to my pita
-When me Taka, Mitch M, and Nic reeked of fish in the elevator, I feel awful for the lady who was stuck with us.
-If Mitch “shotties” something, there is no negotiating
-I can build bridges out of garbage
- Ben

-The best part I would say is when we went to the Vatican Museum…that was amazing!
-When so many people started petting Nic haha
-Mitch cares a lot about his pajamas
-I forget things easily
-Taka Akiyama


-The Sistine Chapel is the most amazing art I have ever seen!
-The crazy man walking down the street with the jukebox mumbling/singing
-Shane takes an excessive amount of time preparing for bed
-I don’t get very bad jetlag
-Connor Jecks

It seems people have started writing paragraphs… interesting. Hello again from Holly and Leah. P.S. Madagascar 2 is amazing…rent it.


The Red Light District of Pompeii was not only interesting, but quite amusing
Geoff learning the worst way to claim a bed
Lucia likes killing crunchies!
I can sleep anywhere ☺
-Lance


-My favorite tour had to be the one of Pompeii.
-When Chelsea went hysterical trying to keep the Italians out of our room and placed a single suitcase in front of the door.
-Lance turns a light shade of green when sick.
-Good god I eat a lot.
-Camille


My favourite day was waking up way too early and going to Patmos with Alyssa where we walked to the top of a hill/ mountain and could see everything around us. Later on that day, we went on a second excursion to Ephesus, which was breathtaking.
One of the best memories was the Italian Stallions (not) trying to hit on us at midnight and Alyssa and Julia trying to sound like angry men to scare them away. And Mr. Bjornson does slightly resemble Atticus Finch when he sits in the hallway protecting us until 2:00 am.
In his mind, Ben was hit on by guys almost as much as the girls were.
I can eat two people’s dinner and not feel guilty in any way.
-Gillian


I loved the free time in Rhodes as well as the breathtaking views from the top of the Acropolis of Corinthe
Leah getting her hair stuck in an umbrella and Kira running through the streets in shoes that looked very painful
When Will is bored he harasses Mitchell as a form of entertainment
After more than a week of constant cigarette smoke laughing turns into coughs and becomes extremely painful
-Sean

What I liked most in Europe was seeing things I had read about in books when I was little and have always wanted to visit, like the Colloseum and Pompei, in Italy and the Parthenon in Greece.
One of the funniest things on the trip (and also one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen) was Mr Bjornson and the Italian Invasion. I thought it was funny how he stayed up so late to make sure the Italian Stallions didn’t come back to bother the girls.
I don’t have a specific thing to say about the other students on the trip, but I learned a lot about people that I knew of or had talked to once or twice before. I made a lot of new friends on this trip that I’ll hopefully have next year when they come to Carson.
I learned how easy it is to talk to people on this trip, and also how to be more independent and adventurous while in an unfamiliar country.
-Kira Nordhoj

The teachers will be organizing a picture share with pizza (or whatever) two or three weeks from now with students and parents!