I've finished finals now its time for the CRUISE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So the past week has probably been one of the most hectic weeks of my young life. Not really, but when you live in Greece and are more interested in going outside and playing then you are of studying it can make life pretty stressful! Well, we had our last day of classes last Saturday so that meant that this week was... dun dun dun.... FINALS! We had our biggest final yesterday (that pretty much turned my brain into mush) and after taking the afternoon off to re-coup I began to study for my other two finals. Today I had music apprec (which I aced by the way!) and Greek (which pretty much kicked my butt, but technically I could fail it and still keep my A!). It is such a relief to be finished with all of my classes and now I am ready to move on to my next big adventure!
Tonight we had our end of the year banquet. Most of us dressed up in togas (yeah, I know the toga is a Roman thing, oh well! haha) and we pretty much had a party! The dining room was all decorated and we had a special meal prepared by our wonderful chef, Fofi! It was so much fun to just relax and know that we didn't have any studying to do! After dinner we all got superlatives and watched a slide show of pictures from the whole semester. It brought back a lot of memories. Memories from our trip to Egypt and our travels around Greece. All of those seem like a lifetime ago but at the same time it feels like it was just yesterday that I was standing by the pyramids and cruising the Nile! This semester has been more of a blessing to me than I realize right now and I am not ready to leave my home here in Porto Rafti just yet but I know that my time here is coming to an end. The Artemis has been my home for the past three months and I know that I will not only miss this place but I will miss the people more than anything. I will miss being just a few doors down from my sisters (its gonna be weird to go back to being the only girl my age for awhile). I will miss being able to walk through the dining room and always find someone who wants to go outside and hit the volleyball around or who wants to play spades. This semester I have formed some of the best friendships with some of the most awesome people that I have ever met and they have been such a blessing to me. I have loved being just a few minutes walk from the beach (don't get much of that in NM). And I will miss the big bowls of fresh strawberries (yes mom, strawberries!) that Fofi sets out for us everyday. The things that I have been able to see and experience will be with me for the rest of my life and I thank God everyday for allowing me to be here.
Tomorrow morning we leave for our three day cruise of the Greek islands. We will go to Mykonos, Rhodes, and Patmos as well as Ephesus in Turkey! Pray for our safety on this trip and also pray for the next few weeks. We will all be leaving for free travel next week and it is going to be hard to say bye to people as they leave. I don't have our free travel schedule in front of me so I don't remember exactly where we're going but I'll put it up when I get it! Thank you all so much for all of your love and support and I can't wait to see you in a few weeks! I love you!