Today students had their first "Athens Across the Ages" class with Ioanna (pronounced Yoaana). The class focuses on significant historical events in Greece with a focus on politics, art, philosophy, and religion bron in the city of Athens. Education of this course will be gained in the classroom, archeological sites, musesums, and trips sights in Delphi, Mycenae, Meteora, Epidauros, Nauplio, and others to be determined later. For the first day of class the students were brought to the Benaki Museum where Ioanna discussed the significance of some of the pieces that were on display. Going into a museum with Ioanna as a guide is always a pleasure, she picks out the most important pieces in the collection and gives us more information about the piece beyond what the plaque below the piece has to say. I am looking forward to seeing more exhibits with Ioanna this semester since I was not able to attend many of the trips during the last semester.
Our whole group also had its first Greek language lessons today. This is a first for our program and even with just one day past I can already see it is going to be very rewarding for everyone. If only we weren't so tired from staying up until 5:00am to watch the Super Bowl the night before. I personally have started using Rosetta Stone in an effort to learn more of the language. My goal is to have some basic conversations in Greek with some of the people I have met from this country. Learning the Greek language is especially interesting because the alphabet they use is so different from English. It will be rewarding to look at these foreign characters and be able to decipher what they mean. We are going to have two hours of Greek language lessons every day for our first two weeks. Wish us luck with the Greek lessons, maybe I will share some words in the future.
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