Due Santi-> Ancona -> Igoumenitsa

We started our voyage last Friday, Sept 30th into our creatively named "Greece Trip" with many, many hours of traveling. Leaving at 7:00 am, slightly late because three guys forgot to set an alarm to wake up, we embarked on our 5 hour bus ride, 2 hours of waiting in Ancona to get on the Ferry "SuperfastXI" and the 16+ hours that we spent on this ginormous boat.

I wish I could say we were all excited as we were leaving campus, but in reality we were all pretty tired. The buses were quiet, some people were reading through their itinerary (which looked really busy and a bit stressful), and most were sleeping, trying to catch up with the sleep that the previous week had drained with its midterms and papers. However it all picked up as soon as we got on the ferry. Perhaps because it reminded us much more of a cruise than the ferry we had all pictured (like those long squares that you put your car on to get to an island in any big city), but also because the reality of going to even another different country started to settle in.

We all started to talk about the places we were headed to, especially as we shared the magnificent view of open blue in the winds of the deck. We took a lot of pictures with our hair flopping everywhere, of course sang the Titanic theme song, and swayed with the boat. It was the first of the many simple and fun bonding experiences that would come for us as a group in this trip.

I just realized that if I keep being this descriptive about each hour of the trip, I shall not even get to a city so I'll wrap this boat up. Basically it gave me personally a lot of time to both talk to my friends and think by myself in front of a vast view of water, to ponder at the size and significance of water and of course my own size and significance, it also gave me my first and quite humbling taste of Greek (it really bothered me not to be able to understand even a single sound, even after having "memorized" the list of suggested words in our packet), a swaying bed that came out of the wall, and of course took me to Greece.

We arrived early in the morning in the port of Igoumenitsa and made our way to the city of Dodona.