Posts tagged with “Sophia Ying” (All posts)
Sophia Ying – Week 9
31 May 2024
Our final weekend trip of the program was to Santorini and Crete. This time, we took a flight together for the first time as a whole group. Our first stop…
Sophia Ying – Week 8
19 May 2024
Our Tuesday trip was to the Pnyx, an outdoor lecture hall with a platform and grassy places to stand. This lecture hall is situated on a hill next to the…
Sophia Ying – Week 7
17 May 2024
Week 7 was an exciting week. Aselya and I got back from our Easter trip on Sunday, delighted to see our home in Athens while simultaneously missing the quiet of…
Sophia Ying – Week 6
7 May 2024
For Easter Break, my roommate Aselya and I took a trip to Kalamaki, a city on the remote island of Zakynthos. It was a wonderful respite from the hustle and…
Sophia Ying – Week 5
30 April 2024
This week, we thought we were just getting used to the paradisiacal blue sky that filled the background of every single one of our pictures. Thus, after Weekly Latin, we…
Sophia Ying – Week 4
30 April 2024
This week, we thought about how we classify communities. In general, we tend to think about a community progressing from band to tribe to chiefdom and finally to state. The…
Sophia Ying – Week 3
20 April 2024
It’s Week 3. By now, my roommates and I have started settling in to a routine, and adapting to some Greek norms. In particular, we’ve felt an affinity for the siesta.
Week 2 – Sophia Ying
8 April 2024
Our second week was mostly early-morning Survival Greek, in which we learned as much modern Greek as possible in order to be able to get around for the remainder of…
Week 1 – Sophia Ying
8 April 2024
We have successfully arrived in Athens! I came a week early and stayed at an AirBnB in the Plaka, a colorful, upbeat neighborhood of Athens. There, I got to taste some of the orange pie, souvlaki, and mousaka that I would get to enjoy for the rest of the term.
Categories
- Addy Huss
- Alex Gibbens
- Aselya Gullickson
- Audrey McCormick
- Ben Jerris
- Caroline Stanton
- Charlotte Gingo
- Christo Polydorou
- Eila Planinc
- Ellie Simon
- Eva Mazullo
- Fátima Reyes Paniagua
- Featured 2024
- Helen Banta
- Henry Petrini
- Iver Skogerboe
- John Carragher
- Liam Heywood
- Liliana Speiser
- Lily Johnson
- Muntaz Ali
- Nick Foley
- Noah Laitala
- Noah Spinner
- Noelle Paek
- Oskar Alexander
- Robert Healy
- Ruby Becker
- Sabine Stutheit
- Sam Much
- Sela Nesin
- Sophia Jazaeri
- Sophia Ying (Current Category)
- Spring 2024
- Spring 2026 Greece Blog
- Stella Thompson
- Susie Delgado
- Suwannee Conroy-Baarsch
- Will Puzella
- Zaria Kelly