Meeting

The entire school is leaving for Crete on Tuesday, so tonight they held a Crete informational session cum town hall meeting for the entire student body. At the town hall portion of the meeting, we all got treated to a rant from various members of the staff about how the washing machines and dryers at the school work perfectly, they're just different from western-style dryers because they're a condensing model instead of a venting model, how no one in Greece has washing machines, how they could say that they had laundry facilities if they gave us a bucket and some soap, and how we all signed up for a cultural experience and the cultural experience of doing laundry in Greece was to handwash your laundry in the bathtub and hang it up to dry on a line. It was kind of amusing. I mean, I tried doing my laundry in the school washers once, decided that it was too much trouble, and have been handwashing my laundry since. It's not a big deal. But I guess that some of my CYA classmates are less willing to make adaptations than I am.

Then for the Crete information part of the meeting, Mr. Phyl, the president of CYA, got up to speak in front of everyone wearing Cretan traditional costume, which included a white tunic, a black hat, a dagger, and boots. Then he showed us this Powerpoint presentation highlighting things that we're going to do and see in Crete, including this three hour hike down a beautiful gorge followed by sea-bathing and lunch.

I'm excited...