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Payment
Plan and other financial details: A
deposit of $300 dollars per person is required as
soon as possible in order to secure
your place. Please bring your deposit checks to me or to Sandi Delabar,
Secretary of Social Sciences Department, or mail them to our SSU address
or put in an envelope and push under my office’s door. Make check
payable to “Shawnee State University.” If a participant can pay for the
entire cost of the trip in one payment it is recommended that they
should do so at this stage.
When
you give us your deposit please indicate to us if you:
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Will be taking the tour as a student planning to enroll in the
course
If
you are traveling alone we will find same gender roommates for you.
When
you give us your deposit please provide us with your
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Current e-mail address
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Home address
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Phone number
Your check will not be cashed. I will hold on to them until such time
when there are enough participants to make the trip a go. I will then
e-mail all of you to notify you that the trip is a go and whether you
still plan to take it and that you have enough funds in your bank
account to cover the check. If at this point your plans to participate
have changed then I will return the check to you. Otherwise, I will give
the checks to SSU's business office so that they can be cashed. SSU will
then wire the money to the travel agency in Prague and to the airlines as deposits for the
trip. Once
the wired money is in their bank accounts you can still opt out of
the trip, if for some reason you must, but there might/will be no
refund.
Please note: You can pay in installments providing that complete payment
is made by three months prior to departure. The payment plan contains a
certain degree of flexibility but please try to be prompt. Please
let me know as soon as problems with your payments develop. All
payments will be made to the same name, i.e. "Shawnee State
University"
 All participants will need a valid passport. No visa is required
for US passports. For non-US passport holders please check with your
country’s consulate or with the consulate/embassy of any one of our destination
nations on the Internet. If you do not already have a passport
you need to apply for one ASAP. Currently the estimated time to receive
a passport is 10 weeks. The total cost for a passport is $97. This
includes the application fee $67, and the execution fee $30. If you are
applying for a passport for the first time, you must apply in person.
However, you can download the form that you need. Go on-line at
www.travel.state.gov and download a copy of the DS 11
passport form. You can apply for your passport by going to the
Scioto County Clerk of Courts, 602 7th Street (355-8226) or
Portsmouth Main Post Office 610 Gay St. (353-7579). When applying, you
must bring a valid driver's license and an original birth certificate or
a certified copy of it. You must also bring 2 official passport
photographs. You can get those at Wal-Mart or at the local AAA office.
For more information visit
http://www.travel.state.gov/passport/get/first/first_830.html. If
you don’t order your passport ahead of time, you can expedite the
process and receive your passport in 2 weeks. You will need to pay an
additional service fee of $60, plus $27 the cost of overnight delivery
services; the cost of this service will add $87 to the total cost for
the passport, total cost $184.
For all participants (US or non-US): The complete name you
will give me or Sandi Delabar will be used to reserve your airline
seats. The airline will use this name to eventually issue you the ticket.
The name on your ticket must be
identical to the name in your passport.
Please note: Priority for
participation is for those who take the tour as students. This is a
summer semester 2008 course. You will need to
register for this class, as you do with your other classes, when summer
semester 2008 registration begins.
There will be space for
“community members” to join the group. “Community members” are defined
as any person willing to come along. Priority will be given to
relatives/significant others/friends of enrolled students. You are
welcome to submit their names (and deposit money). They will be accepted
on a first signed up basis. The goal is to have about 25 - 30 persons traveling in order to
ensure the better rate so please help me advertise this tour. There is
no age limitation.
There will be 3 to 4 pre-trip
orientation group meetings. Participants will be notified accordingly
and in a timely manner when those will occur. All participants are
required to attend these. Many aspects of the trip and travel advisories
will be discussed. There will
also be a series of meetings of an academic nature. All enrolled
students are required to attend these. Non-student participants may attend if
they so wish.
Finally, I look forward to
being your professor and guide in a great study tour such as this if
past trips are an indication of their worth. For returning veterans I
feel doubly honored in sharing this adventure with you. Please see me
for any questions not discussed here or elsewhere in this site.
Summary
of Important points:
In
making a deposit to ensure your reservation and participation, indicate
to me or Sandi whether you will be taking the tour as an enrolled
student, give us your name as it will appear in your passport, provide
us with a valid e-mail address, indicate your rooming preferences,
obtain a passport, observe the payment deadlines, attend the meetings,
inform us of changes in your plans, enroll in the course, promote the
tour to other students and community members, peruse the web site for
this trip, and be prepared to have a great educational and fun
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