Senior Trip 09

Senior year of high school.

It all comes down to it, doesn’t it? Applying to colleges, doing as many community service hours as you can, asking for recommendations, studying for those scary APs and IB testing sessions, waiting for countless free periods for your next subject ( because you only have three). However, there is another side to senior year. The caps and gown photos, being exhibited on street Macedonia, planning for prom and the succeeding week of partying, no longer caring for grades that much, spending most of your day at Forza drinking coffee, oh and yes, the long expected SENIOR TRIP. To be honest, every student since the moment he or she enters NOVA can’t wait for Senior Trip to come. All the crazy, fun stories from the previous years make you want to skip the first three years of high school and be a Senior.

But is Senior Trip all it’s said to be? According to the Senior class of ’09: YES IT IS!!!

This year’s route was Italy, Spain and France, and the stops were Florence, Rome, Lloret de Mar, Barcelona, Cannes, Nice, Verona and last but not least Venice.

The Senior Trip began as always – with an uncomfortable and long, very long bus ride. In fact, there were many of those bus rides in between. Yet, this year, the bus ride was ameliorated by the legendary tour guide Dejan, and his specific English (big fun, something or something else, stuffs and must to go). Other things that made up this trip are the heart-shaped sunglasses everyone bought, the Hard Rock Cafés in Rome, Barcelona and Venice and the t-shirts a lot of people got from there, the cruise from Rome to Barcelona and singing songs on the deck, the Barcelona – Bayern Munich game, fun rides at Porta Aventura, the shopping fever, eating at Burger King or McDonald’s (with the occasional lunch at a restaurant with good food), the shopping frenzy, the flamenco dance, the clubs. The clubs and the partying. The clubs and of course a lot of drinking! Not to forget to mention the teachers that survived this Senior Trip: our own Tiho, Tanja and Nina. They made sure that everyone woke up and didn’t miss the bus and that there was no more drinking on the bus or stinky feet.

Oh, yes. I forgot. During the Senior Class, the students also visited museums, monuments, the Vatican and saw numerous sculptures and paintings.

Sadly, after two amazing and unforgettable weeks, the Senior Trip ended and our seniors returned to Skopje, Prashka bb. Still, there are countless of photos and many, many memories that will make sure that this Senior Trip never ends.