First Goodbye

Marty met Susanne, Irene and Maria for their daily early morning walk.  These walks not only served as a good form of exercise but an opportunity to learn more about the surrounding area and gave Susanne, Irene and Maria an opportunity to practice their English.

After breakfast, Cathy read Karl’s journal.  Karl was not feeling well and was resting in his room.  He later joined the group and indicated that he could not continue with the program because he had a reoccurrence of gout and was very uncomfortable.  Cathy made new air reservations for his departure.  Sam notified Karl’s wife that he would be returning home. Additionally, she notified the Global Volunteers home office in Minnesota of the situation.

Marty needed to change her air reservations to ensure an earlier arrival in Paris.  The girls ventured by bus to the airport.  Marty was successful in changing her reservations with a more ideal arrival time in Paris.  We took the bus back to Amoundara and lunched at our favorite taverna.  Again, we enjoyed dolmathes, fried zucchini, a glass of wine and Greek coffee.  The taverna treated us to loukomathes and raki – because we are now regulars.  They even know our order by heart—no menus needed!

The students arrived.  Marty continued to tutor Alice and Rafaella.  You could certainly tell the girls were really into the lesson.  Cathy played a game called Talking Cards with the teenage students.  This proved to be a great conversational game, giving each student different topics to discuss.  Later the scrabble game continued.  Anthony is still the reigning champ but Leah came close to winning.

After our teaching session, Marty met with Maria and Mr. Nikos for their English lesson.  Cathy met with the hotel staff continuing their English lesson.

The students bid farewell to Karl before he retreated to his room