by Ellie Hedlund, English 12, Mrs. Didrikson

After a long day of island hopping from the Greek islands of Samos to Patmos with my friends, we were exhausted. Our day started with a 3 amam wake up call in our tiny room on the cruise ship. Our ship was headed to Turkey, but our EF (Education First) tour group was to go to Samos, a small Greek island, instead. After eating breakfast on the island at about 5 a.m., our whole tour group, which consisted of about thirty kids and chaperones, decided to take a nap along the beach and watch the sun rise.

After a few hours of napping, many of us decid...