The Georgetown Heckler

News | March 1, 2015

Parents Almost Fall for Week-long Study Abroad in Cancun

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HENLE- In a breaking news update, sophomore Jack Henderson (Col ’17) has informed Heckler reporters that he will not be having a “hella dope spring break with the boys” after all.

 

Mere moments before submitting his deposit on the resort and purchasing his plane ticket, guaranteeing him fun in the sun down in Mexico, his parents discovered the true purpose of his trip.

 

“Jack had informed us that Georgetown was offering a condensed semester abroad during the first week of March,” reported a frustrated Mrs. Henderson.  “Of course we told him he could broaden his academic horizons at Georgetown’s beachside campus in Cancun.”

 

However, it was when Mr. and Mrs. Henderson attempted to reach out to the faculty at the University’s Yucatan location that they began to suspect something.  A quick search of the Georgetown academic calendar casted further doubts on the legitimacy of a semester abroad during spring break.

 

The final straw came when the parents began to question their son’s class selection for the week, which included Spanish, Oceanography, Female Anatomy, and Intro to Sand.  It was then that Henderson saw his clever ruse collapse before his very eyes.

 

“Jack will be coming home to Michigan for Spring Break now.  We are very disappointed in him.  Why couldn’t he be like his brother?  Jeremy volunteered in the Bahamas every spring break,” a red-faced Mr. Henderson told the Heckler.

 

At press time, Jack Henderson was seen seeking his parents’ forgiveness while simultaneously campaigning to study abroad in the Bahamas next semester.