Greetings for a second and final time from London!
Today's Highlights...
#1--Terry our driver to Windsor shared a little British Road Rage with other drivers and our own tour guide. Meanwhile, in the back of the bus "Ginger" was throwing up all over herself and trash bag. "Why was she so sick?" You might be asking... Because she ate at the ONE vendor we have been instructed not to purchase food from. Serves her right, lesson learned.
#2--Additionally, we learned that bus driver solidarity is international, as Terry also felt the need to give British props to other drivers on the road(the other side of the road).
#3--Harvey learned, that groups are not allowed in Harrod's and had several students escorted out. Harvey, being a true hater of poor customer service, then got in to a brief encounter with a guard, ending with the phrase, "Thanks so much for your hospitality."
#4--One young lady "Sarah," as you may remember from yesterday, came to Europe without money, a working credit/debit cards, her parents' phone numbers, and she also has an emergency contact who is on vacation in Alaska. She had to make panicked phone calls home to the church secretary, in a different state from the pastor, leaving a message on the church machine stating, "This is Sarah I am in Europe and I am having money problems, I need you to find my father's cell phone number, and call my teacher's cell phone in Europe."
#4.5-- Karen helped Sarah get a card to work by charging a 85 pence bottle of water. You have to slide the card slowly, very slowly. We hope Sarah can learn how to say very slowly in all of our necessary languages.
#5-- Check in tonight..."Where is Kim, Where is Kim, We can't find Kim?????" We panic, we call, we run down the hall, we call her parents who are on the trip, and she is NO WHERE to be found! We finally learn from a friend that she is in the hotel lobby bathroom pooping.
Today's Award Winners...
"Courtesy Flush Award"-- Kim, thanks for taking it to the lobby!
"Are they lesbians? Award"-- Two awkward girls, are they lesbians or are they running for co-counselship of the Dork Outreach Program
"What the hell would you do that for? Award"-- Two parents who insisted on riding a Double Decker Red bus to...nowhere!
"Grown Folks Things Award"-- To the silver man in Covent Garden who was taking pictures with tourists, drinking, toking the reefer, and dealing drugs
Delphi Heat Index...Today's HOT location
HOLIDAY INN EXPRESS TOASTER OVEN- A three foot radius.
Post Script-- Internal Heat Regulation Awards is a new category created for those special moments when someone can find a way to cool down.
Yesterday--Harvey wins for freezing his ass off, simply by downing a liter of cold cold water
Today-- Holiday Inn Express fan in room 102-- Karen and Clare BEGGED for this and the teenage staff made it happen late. VERY LATE! This kept the room at a very chilly 80 degrees!
Have a great one. We are off to Paris in the morning. Be on the bus at nine, and you better have your passport or Karen will cut you and Harvey will cry!
6 comments:
So, who came up with the Courtesy Flush award? Karen or Harvey? Chipper and I are still laughing! You are permitted to call her Kimmie! Glad you all are having a fun time! Oh, and Harvey...thanks for your hospitality!
I am absolutely intigued by poor Sara, we will keep her in our thoughts and prayers as praying might be the only way to get that poor girl some cash (or her parents phone number).
BTW- the gag reflex from the vommiting on the bus would have rivaled the bathroom from the amtrak...
We hope you are all having a fun and no worries Karen-brian is thinking of you and the heat :)
Wow! This is tote ridiculous. How do you come out of the house with no money, let alone out of the country? This Sarah sounds like a piece of work. I'd keep my eye on her.
It's driving me crazy to read these posts and not know who these students really are! I'm sitting here trying to figure out if any of our other students' names are similar to spices to see who Ginger really is. I'm going to need a list of the aliases.
Puking on a bus in Europe - brings back memories. Poor girl - hope she learned her lesson!
The Harrods' story would only be better if you had gone indigenous Harv! Maybe steph you should resign your make up pencil case in protest??
Even in my most Rose-like moments, I didn't even come close to this poor Sarah!
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