Goodbye Party

This was Friday night, after a field trip to another country. No one was happy about the timing. However, it ended up being on of the best nights so far. We all got dressed up, which was fun. Everyone cleans up well. There is a giant UW grafittied on the side of the cafeteria (well, technically there are three letters, but we just look at the first two). We asked someone to take our group picture, but she didn't quite get the letters in. Here are all the people, though:



Like I mentioned, the event was held above the cafeteria. We were all skeptical, but it turns out that three flights of stairs takes you to a legitimately nice banquet space. We had a gigantic dinner and listened to several speeches in Greek, since this was also the farewell party for all the other international students studying here, who now know Greek, and a few speeches in English about/for us. We also presented our "findings" from all the interviews we've done on defining Greek Identity. We recieved dipolomas (at least I think they are; they're also in Greek) and a gift bag with a book (in...Greek!) and a CD with some of the songs we've heard in lectures and danced to, which I'm very excited for. Then the party started to happen; there were several traditional Greek dance performances, by us and the other students. We sort of messed up on our last song, but Taso came out of NOWHERE and started dancing like a champ in the middle of the circle, which was a complete surprise and very entertaining. After all the presentations, we had a huge dance party and stayed until about 2:30am. All of the teachers left at probably 12, but Ioanna and our two Greek teachers stayed longer and were lots of fun. I wish this had happened as soon as we arrived, because it was a good bonding experience with the international students.