Let me set the scene for you. Picture Groton girls basketball playing at home against Middlesex.

On a cold Thursday night, my fellow dorm members started filing into Hamlin’s common room for check-in.

Winter Bread: different daily breads served throughout the winter term at lunchtime by the Dining Hall. It is one of the most anticipated parts of winter lunches, and I’d argue, of winter term itself.

Let’s start right after chapel. Picture almost every Groton student clustered in front of the Schoolhouse. There had already been talk of Surprise Holiday, so these rumors strengthened during the crowded gathering. 

Only twenty-four hours into summer break, I was back at Groton. Everybody on the Peru GEO—GEO an acronym for Global Education Opportunity—was saying their goodbyes to family and loading their luggage onto the bus bound for Boston Logan International Airport.

“Let’s do something fun today.” If anyone were to have walked into the room after my friend uttered that sentence, they would have encountered two teens hunched over their phones. We were scouring the internet for “fun events in the Boston area.”