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The End of An Era...
The last day of the program was rather uneventful: we had our last guest lecture at Erasmus University, then group dinner at six. In the inbetween time I sorted through my dirty clothes and started packing things up. Unfortunately, I miscalculated how much clothing I needed- I thought two weeks would be good enough for me only to have to do laundry once, but somehow it didn't work out and I was three days short. So I ended up having to do one load of laundry. :P At the laundromat I ran into Chloe, Jeanna, and Katherine T., and we hung out at the pub next door while waiting for our clothes to finish. The restaurant we had our last group dinner in was vaguely spanish - we had three courses once more, of cold tapas, warm tapas, then dessert. We've gotten better at avoiding the overeating problem that some of my classmates suffered from in previous group dinners (I'd like to think that I was an excellent example in that regard), so dinner was quite enjoyable. We took a collection to get John Baan a gift certificate to a restaurant, because he really made our hotel a home away from home and went above and beyond to help us with whatever we needed.
The last day of the program was rather uneventful: we had our last guest lecture at Erasmus University, then group dinner at six. In the inbetween time I sorted through my dirty clothes and started packing things up. Unfortunately, I miscalculated how much clothing I needed- I thought two weeks would be good enough for me only to have to do laundry once, but somehow it didn't work out and I was three days short. So I ended up having to do one load of laundry. :P At the laundromat I ran into Chloe, Jeanna, and Katherine T., and we hung out at the pub next door while waiting for our clothes to finish. The restaurant we had our last group dinner in was vaguely spanish - we had three courses once more, of cold tapas, warm tapas, then dessert. We've gotten better at avoiding the overeating problem that some of my classmates suffered from in previous group dinners (I'd like to think that I was an excellent example in that regard), so dinner was quite enjoyable. We took a collection to get John Baan a gift certificate to a restaurant, because he really made our hotel a home away from home and went above and beyond to help us with whatever we needed.