It was summer 2008, and I was in the midst of a second crazy summer with Study Tours. But, I had finally earned a day off, it was actually more like two days off, which was unheard of. We had sent almost the entire staff, group leaders, and students to Washington DC for the weekend. I worked incredibly hard to get the staff and the buses ready to depart. At 2:30 p.m. on Saturday I was free!... At least until about 9 o'clock the next night.
Planning for the Unexpected
In my previous position at Rider I would take hundreds of high school students visiting from Italy, Kazakhstan, Spain, Portugal, and other places on tour to New York City, Philadelphia, Washington DC, Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Francisco. I was essentially a cruise director without the boat. The students were visiting in the summer for two weeks where they would go to class for 3 hours in the morning and learn English. The remaining 21 hours was up to the Study Tours Counselors to take them to various tourist attractions.