My hair twirls and my feet try to keep up with the tempo. We spin around in circles keeping beat to the time. Today, I learned the traditional Greek circle dance. Professor Finitsis starts out slowly, teaching us the steeps to his native dance. He plays the music off of his phone as we watch him turn side to side in the Akropolis Theatre. The class slowly starts to trickle in to form a circle linking our arms. I laugh so hard and imagine what it would be like to do this at weddings and baptisms. At this moment, nothing else in the world matters. I don’t care what the local Greeks think of us as we misstep their dance. I don’t have to think about spring semester or how much my textbooks will cost. I don’t have to worry about w
hat I am going to do with my one wild and precious life. This moment will be one that I will think about ten years from now. I will remember the time when the entire class circled around one another and we swung our legs from left to right with the Greek music in the background. We
The sun sets and we make our way back to the hotel. The weather was beautiful and the water looked inviting, well so I thought. A few people wanted to go swimming in the ocean once it was dark. At first, I didn’t think I would because of how cold it was once the sun was down, but then my inner Greek came out and I was strong. Walking across the street to the beach, I tried to prepare myself. I leave my flip flops and clothes on the rocky beach and run strait for the water. It is best to get it over with and I did exactly that. People scream as they enter the cold water and we laugh at the “brilliant” idea of night swimming. Once everyone was submerged in the water, we stayed and swam. By the time my body was numb, I figured I might as well stay in a little longer.
These two moments have been the highlights for my Rhodes adventure. I won’t forget Professor Finitsis showing us the ever so popular traditional Greek dance I was
always awestruck over in movies. The cultural dance made me feel even more Greek. Swimming in the Aegean Sea was a numbing experience I will tell my children. I can’t believe that two of my favorite experiences happened in one day. Who would have thought I am living the life!
hat I am going to do with my one wild and precious life. This moment will be one that I will think about ten years from now. I will remember the time when the entire class circled around one another and we swung our legs from left to right with the Greek music in the background. WeThe sun sets and we make our way back to the hotel. The weather was beautiful and the water looked inviting, well so I thought. A few people wanted to go swimming in the ocean once it was dark. At first, I didn’t think I would because of how cold it was once the sun was down, but then my inner Greek came out and I was strong. Walking across the street to the beach, I tried to prepare myself. I leave my flip flops and clothes on the rocky beach and run strait for the water. It is best to get it over with and I did exactly that. People scream as they enter the cold water and we laugh at the “brilliant” idea of night swimming. Once everyone was submerged in the water, we stayed and swam. By the time my body was numb, I figured I might as well stay in a little longer.
These two moments have been the highlights for my Rhodes adventure. I won’t forget Professor Finitsis showing us the ever so popular traditional Greek dance I was
always awestruck over in movies. The cultural dance made me feel even more Greek. Swimming in the Aegean Sea was a numbing experience I will tell my children. I can’t believe that two of my favorite experiences happened in one day. Who would have thought I am living the life! 
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