After being here for just over one full week, the entire group has made it a nightly tradition to explain our rose, bud, and thorn at the dinner table. A rose is supposed to be the highlight of your day, the thing that makes you smile when you look back on your day. A bud symbolizes what you are looking forward to in the future, and the thorn is something that might have been challenging or difficult to overcome. As a whole, this experience has already been filled with many roses, lots of buds, and some thorns.
Some roses of week one include visiting the Maynousakis Winery, walking around the beautiful city of Chania, and having a hands-on learning experience at the Institute of Cretan Studies. A thorn that I have personally had to overcome is testing positive for COVID-19 and struggling with isolation during the last four days. But because of that, I do have many buds. I am looking forward to being able to take part in group activities again, go hiking through the Samaria Gorge, and study on the island of Samos next week.
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