We’ve spent a couple of quiet days here on campus. Most of the staff has left for spring break – several will be joining us in Greece for the NESA conference on Friday. Breaks provide the staff with travel opportunities. Some of the locations that our staff was headed to were: Morocco, Spain, Transylvania, Ireland, Dubai, Jordan, Turkey, Italy, etc. We plan to join another couple after the conference for a 5 day stay at Santorini, an island off the coast of Greece (http://www.santorini.net/home.html). The NESA conference is the main educators’ conference for schools in Eastern Europe, Asia and the Middle East. This year it is held in historic Athens. We hope to have some time to tour sites such as the Parthenon, Acropolis and the site of the Olympic Games. Athens is one place we have always wanted to visit so we are thankful for the opportunity to go.
Yesterday we did a little shopping and we stopped at one of the neighborhood pharmacies as Pat wanted to pick up a prescription she was nearly out of. She was able to get a 3 month supply for 9.50 LE (about $1.53). It really makes you think about the stranglehold that insurance companies and the whole medical industry have on the people in the US. Even with insurance, the co-pay would have been more than we paid here.
