Show Us Your Belly

Trip Start Sep 07, 2008

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Trip End Dec 09, 2008

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Flag of Greece Athens, Attica, Greece
Tuesday, October 21, 2008

The students faced a brutal quiz in Indy's class today. By all accounts, some of the intense study sessions last night got a little slap happy. Bellingham, Traveling Pants, and Papia wrote funny sayings about the stress of studying for the test on sticky notes and took pictures of themselves wearing the notes on their faces (I know, I'm a little bit baffled, too). In the note featured in this picture, Bellingham complains to Indy, "We hoofed it together. I thought that meant something to you!" This refers to the running joke that started the first week of excursions, when we were introduced to Indy's speedwalking. The class was poised at a crosswalk at a busy intersection, and to warn us that we needed to cross quickly to avoid being flattened by an errant motorcycle, Indy admonished us: "We're going to have to HOOF IT!" And of course, we've been hoofing it all over Greece ever since.

Papia wore her Greek gladiator sandals for good luck when taking the quiz

What too many hours of studying can reduce you to

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After the students survived the quiz and classes were over for the day, Fred, Class Clown, and Mama D came over to wash some laundry and cook a casserole made of layers of penne pasta, sausage, tomato sauce, and ground beef. The casserole was quite good, but not as good as the hilarious and far-ranging dinner conversation. First they quoted jokes from all their favorite comedy routines. Then they told me about their boy band and joked about how they're holding auditions for groupies after we return from fall break. Then they tried to one-up each other with stories of crazy athletic coaches they've had (Fred plays baseball, Class Clown water polo, and Mama D football). Mama D probably won that contest with the story of the coach who was inexplicably permitted to carry a huge bush knife on him each day in school. The first day of football practice, Mama D was wearing a t-shirt under his shoulder pads. The coach used his bush knife to slice the bottom of the t-shirt right off Mama D's torso, growling, "linemen need to show their bellies."

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