Day 4

Events:Surveying & MappingAcrocorinth climb
We did a group project today. I did not have fun. While the work itself was interesting, I was unbelievably frustrated with t he inefficiency of coordinating a group of people to accomplish a single task. I can’t help thinking that my solution is the best one. Ugh.
On a lighter note, I [...]

Day 3

Events:Uncover mosaic at bath in IsthmiaDiscussion of work done by Dr. GregoryBeach time
Ancient Corinth is beautiful. We looked out over the ancient city last night during our orientation walk through town. We did not go to the city excavation today, though. Instead we went to the excavation of a Roman bath. Calling it a Roman [...]

Day 2

Events:National Archaeological MuseumCycladic MuseumTravel from Athens to CorinthCorinthian CanalOrientation to the excavation at Corinth
I think that Cycladic feminine statues are awesome.

Now that I have that out of the way… I usually don’t enjoy historical museums (as opposed to fine art museums). I envy ancient Greek travelers. They didn’t have to spend beautiful days indoors looking [...]

Day 1

Events:Parthenon & AgoraPlacaTrireem
The Parthenon was bigger than I expected. I don’t think I could have been prepared for it. All the pictures I’ve seen haven’t done it justice. For some reason I imagined it to be more isolated, a marble majesty towering alone on the rocks. Maybe it was just the crowd of tourists that [...]

empty

moved almost all my stuff and am spending the end of the week in an empty apartment. i’ve resorted to watching queer eye. just sad. i’m impatient. my dad says impatience is the root of all my problems. i could be a hollywood it girl. if i got implants. which would never happen. i can’t [...]

EVOLUTION

Spent about 8 hours in the last two days working on my science project. Last night we were up til about 1 but I must admit we didn’t get much work done. That’s the best kind of homework. I was apprehensive about this project because it’s on evolution and one of the guys in my [...]