Inspiring! English Department Abandons Student on Writing Trip Abroad

Have you ever wanted to study abroad, but didn’t know if you were ready? A recent incident has left students wondering if there’s a way to jumpstart their semester abroad without being aware of it.

Sophomore Danika Evans did not mean to live in Greece. As a part of the “Writing Greece” course, she intended to be out of the country only for a few weeks. But after sleeping through one too many events, her peers seemed to forget about her entirely.

“Yeah, one day I woke up in the hotel with just enough time to catch the complimentary breakfast,” Evans said, meaning five minutes before close, “And then I couldn’t seem to find anyone in my cohort.”

The bus had packed up and left hours earlier, giving Danika the time and space to live life in Greece to the fullest. She had three drinks at the bar, went on a leisurely stroll around the town, and spent four hours lounging around a cafe before deciding to order.

Since the hotel had not planned to host Evans for another night, she took a taxi to Athens proper. “I figured I would get in contact with my chaperone somehow,” she confessed to us. But after setting up room and board for the week at the home of a welcoming family, Evans still couldn’t manage to catch up with her classmates.

On the night of the farewell dinner, Danika had planned to make a grand entrance to her peers, but once again a late-afternoon nap got the best of her. Before she knew it, she was lost in Athens, stranded without means to re-enter the country.

“Did I get pickpocketed? Maybe like once or twice,” Evans mentioned in her call with us, “yes, it was super annoying that I had to get a cheap replacement phone. But that was mostly it, they didn’t take my wallet or anything. It was just like my passport.”

Classmates and staff alike did not seem to note Evans’s disappearance in the spring semester, in part because she dutifully replied to every discussion post assignment.

“Admittedly, it was at weird hours,” an anonymous classmate told us, “but not any weirder than like half the people in lecture.”

The hardest part of taking this new semester online, according to Evans, is that she often wakes up to assignments due at odd times. But it means she has afternoons open, which she freely spends lounging at cafes.

On another note, the Doily Allergen has decided to become an additional pilot of this new, exciting program, and will be taking the next international flight out of Chicago. Au revoir! Sayonara! Adiós! Arrivederci!