User blog:Ckohrs0221/Summer History Trip

Hello everyone! One of the quirks of my Professor Cassidy is that she has always wanted to travel. She finally has enough cash, and an opportunity to offer a summer trip for interested upper-level students (5th-7th years). Fifth and sixth years are welcome to come with parental permission; sixth and seventh years who are of age obviously wouldn't need that. I know that some of you stalk my sandbox, and have seen some things already, but I wanted to make it more public on the wiki, get some opinions and garner some interest. (If you've voted in my sandbox already-- thanks so much!!)

So here's what I got so far:

The Itinerary

 * Day 1: Leave from Hogsmeade via Portkey(s?) to Cairo Egypt. Check into Hotel.
 * Day 2-6: Explore Egypt.
 * Great Sphinx of Giza
 * Great Pyramids of Giza (and others)
 * Library at Alexandria
 * Day 7: Portkey to Athens, Greece
 * Day 8-13: Explore Greece
 * Day in Mykonos
 * Two Days in Athens
 * Parthenon, Acropolis, Temple of Athena (among others)
 * Day on Island of Aeaea (Circe)
 * Day 14: Portkey to Salem, Massachussets
 * Day 15-20: Explore Salem
 * Visit to Salem Witches' Institute
 * Ride on the Salem Trolley
 * Witch Trials Memorial
 * The Burying Point
 * Day 21: Portkey back to Hogsmeade

The Cost
This is expensive, because of hotels and things, but yay magic for no travel costs. Still, the estimated cost (right now, this could change depending on some IC things, as well as the number of students who come) is between 400-500 Galleons. This is between 1923-2404 USD and 1205-1506 Pounds. It's a lot of money.

What Can You Do?
Answer my polls! I'm trying to figure out how to set this up, and what kind of interest there is.

Making this work IC and OOC is the tricky part. IC the trip is only three weeks long, which is only like... 5 or 6 days OOC. I had a couple of ideas.

Idea One
Open up all the pages at once, with a "information" kind of WB from Abigail on there somewhere, and just let people RP their chars on the pages for the entire 6 day (OOC) duration.

Idea Two
Open up one page at a time, with the same info WB from Abigail, but only keep it up for two days. That way there would be two days to RP in Egypt/Greece/Salem, and then move on to the next location every two days.

Idea Three
Even though the trip is just three weeks IC, offer it up for all three weeks of summer break OOC. Open up all the pages at once, and let everyone just RP them everywhere, the whole of spring break.

Idea Four
Even though the trip is three weeks IC, open up each location for a week OOC, one week in Egypt/Greece/Salem apiece. Move on to each location after one week OOC.

Would you even have students interested in going? Yes, but only one Yes, more than one Yes, but none of my characters are old enough yet. No, this is a waste of time :P

Would you be interested in seeing this trip offered every summer? Or just this summer? I think these things are special, and just one summer is plenty. Every summer! Let's see how this first summer goes before planning it out every summer.

If it is offered every summer, would you want the locations to stay the same, or change? Keep it the same Switch it up

Which idea do you like best? Idea One Idea Two Idea Three Idea Four Come up with something else

I know there are lots of other places in the world, but I did try to stick with semi-canon places of known magical significance, or where historically, there have been magical events. If I do offer this again, and there is strong interest in another location, I'd absolutely consider it.

If you're interested in other nitty-gritty breakdowns, my sandbox has them. It's mostly just cost breakdowns/estimations, though.

Let me know either in the comments on the blog, through the poll, on my talk page, or in chat what you think! :)