Week 10 – Lily Johnson
Week 10! Aka our last week in Athens on this program. This week was full of finishing things up, saying goodbyes, and learning about the Byzantine Era. Monday involved a…
Week 9: Noelle Paek
It is hard to believe this is my second to last blog post! When I started writing these at the beginning of the program, I found the format a little…
Week 9 – Sela Nesin
Week 9 has come to an end, and it was certainly a busy one. Before I even get into the trip to Central Greece, I’ve got to talk a little…
Week 9 – Nick Foley
This week was another busy one, with a museum visit on Monday to start off the week followed by a four day trip to central Greece. We visited the National…
Week 9: Believing – Eva Mazullo
Since I’ve mainly focused on ancient Greek history in my blog posts, I want to turn to some more modern themes in this post. This week we took our final…
Week 9: Physical Memory – Sophia Jazaeri
We spent the past week exploring Central Greece! Our itinerary was pretty full, so I’ll try to go through things rapid fire. We visited Thebes, Orchomenos, Gla, Delphi, the Oslos…
Caroline Paige Stanton – Coming Full Circle
Throughout our time in Greece, I’ve noticed the shape of circles over and over again. They appear in tombs, palaces, daily life, artifacts, and more. I wrote a piece about…
Noah Laitala Week 9: The Final Journey
This past week was very, very busy! We went on our final excursion to Central Greece and saw about a dozen sites and museums over the four days that we…
Week 9 — Central Greece
This week we had our final trip of the program! This trip made me realize how far we as a group had come since arriving in Athens. Both socially and…
Week 8: Noelle Paek
Week eight was my favorite week thus far and probably will be for the rest of this program! On Thursday after class, my roommate and I took a weekend trip…
Week 8 – Nick Foley
This was a pretty chill week in Athens without a lot of full class activities. We did go to the Numismatic museum on Wednesday though, and we learned a lot…
Week 8 — Food!
This week I’ve been thinking a lot about food and the role of food in culture. Again, we didn’t have a lot of scheduled activities or outings, so I had…
Week 8: Sophia – Sophia Jazaeri
This was another peaceful week in Athens. While the regular students at College Year in Athens, our partner institution here in Greece, prepared to go home, we were well settled…
Week 8: Not Relating – Eva Mazullo
It’s hard to say, but this might have been my favorite week in Greece yet. I spent hours on the beach on Tuesday, on Wednesday we visited the Numismatic Museum…
Week 8 – Lily Johnson
Week 8! Another week in Athens, meaning only two weeks left on this OCS (D:). Wednesday meant visiting the numismatic museum. So many coins. It’s really interesting that ancient coin…
Week 8 – Sela Nesin
With Week 8 coming to a close, I can’t help but think of the fact that we’ve been in Athens for 2 months, and that my time here will soon…
Week 7 – Lily Johnson
While we didn’t travel much out of Athens this week, there was a lot of exploring of the museums and sites of Athens! Somehow, I had only one class in…
Noah Laitala Week 8: Coins and Ceramics
This was another slow week in preparation for our upcoming trip to Central Greece (and our pending final projects). There were only two big events this week: a visit to…
Caroline Paige Stanton – Graffiti, Again
I began my blog by talking about graffiti in Athens, and now I’d like to continue that conversation with graffiti in/throughout the ancient world and its sites. Walking into an…
Week 7: Noelle Paek
Week seven was fairly busy, with a lot of site visits and talks around Athens. On Monday, we spent almost the entire day at the Acropolis Museum, first with our…
Week 7 – Sela Nesin
Week 7 was quite a fun week. While we remained in Attica for the week’s entirety, we visited a few sites that I found very interesting. On Monday, we were…
Week 7: Death…! Eva Mazullo
This week was a busy one, but I’m going to focus on Wednesday’s outing to the National Archaeological Museum. I went into our second visit to the NAM hoping I…
Caroline Paige Stanton – The Value of Reflection
As a part of this program we keep a detailed notebook for the required class “Greece: At a Crossroads.” It contains our field-notes from sites, reflections from sites and experiences,…
Noah Laitala Week 7:
This week, we went to multiple museums, saw a talk about mythology surrounding the Aegean Islands, and finally visited a temple to Poseidon and stopped at a beach! First thing’s…
