Throughout our OCS term, students are making weekly blog posts to reflect on course activities, topics discussed, and their experiences in Greece. Each week, select blogs will be featured here, highlighting student voices, impressions of Greece, and reactions to the course. All blog posts are available for additional reading, including each student’s own blog, linked on the left. Check back each week to see more featured posts!
Walks, Hikes, and Spirituality
For much of the past week, we have been on our midterm break. This free time allowed us to explore the city of Athens in more depth as well as…
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Week 5 – Eila Planinc
Finally we are at my favourite site, Pylos! I wrote so much this weekend that I had to move to my next journal. Pylos is my favourite because I take a…
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Week 4 – John Carragher
Week 4 has been the quietest week thus far and it provided some nice rest before our upcoming trip. I dived deeper into my Myth and Reception class, came up with a solid 3D model for my Digital Archaeology class, and am continuing to enjoy the Greek food and culture. We are almost halfway done with the trip and there is still so much to look forward to!
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Week 3 – Ellie Simon
This week, we just had one off-campus visit as a class: The Museum of Cycladic Art. We were given a lovely tour of one of the leading collections of Cycladic…
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Week 2 – Henry Petrini
Our second week in Greece was very eventful! Our non-Carleton classes didn’t meet, and we took survival Greek to ease us into the groove of life in Greece. We learned…
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Week 2 – Suwannee C-B
From the Athenian Agora to Thermopylae to Demetrias and Lamia, this past week has been filled with archaeological expertise and information. While I love learning about any kind of history, historical political science is the topic that got me interested in the field and I really enjoyed learning more about how ancient Greece’s politics played out in different areas and times periods.
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Week 1 – Will Puzella
Today marks the end of our first week in Greece!
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