I leave for my three-month long study abroad program on Paros, Greece on Saturday:
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I haven't really started packing -- I feel as though that would legitimize the whole thing in my head. Seeing as how my freakout quotient is already increasing at something approaching geometric with each hour ticking towards the moment, I see no need to hurry it along.
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I haven't really started packing -- I feel as though that would legitimize the whole thing in my head. Seeing as how my freakout quotient is already increasing at something approaching geometric with each hour ticking towards the moment, I see no need to hurry it along.
In all seriousness, though--fucking Greece. The seat of western civilization! The womb of democracy! The azure-swathed Mediterranean! Marble temples that have stood a thousand years! (Clubbing! Ouzo! Retsina! Women!)
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(Studying!)
Hmm. I'll be taking a full courseload while I'm there, though they all look like awesome classes, so I'm not too unhappy about that:
- Analog Photography (I'll be shooting with my beautiful old eBay-gotten Nikon FM2n. Full manual forever!)
- Historic Sites of the Eastern Mediterranean (We get to travel around and look at all the cool shit in the area.)
- Creative Writing (Poetry and fiction)
- Literature in Film (An analysis of several famous novels and their transitions onto film)
It might be about time to start packing...I'll try to keep this thing updated fairly regularly with my thoughts and experiences in Greece. 'Till next time.
5 comments:
Are you fucking kidding me? Photography, creative writing, Lit in film, and a goddamn bus tour? Why didn't I sign up for that trip!?
I mean, koala's are cute and all... but I'm tried of the continual lectures on Australian ecology. I get it. It's a big desert and there are only 5 places where people live. Could have found that out on Wiki in under 30 seconds. Don't need 3 lectures a week on it.
me ==(jealousy beams)==> you
You get no sympathy now that you have BETRAYED ME AND YOURSELF for the brodome. :)
And yeah..why didn't you?
Chris, you have no excuse.
A couple of comments on your fun and discriptive blog on your tme in Greece. 1) When you did write, it was interesting and fun to read! 2) Led Zepplin is not and American band, they're Brits. (And I still treasure their first 3 albums I sill own!) 3) I liked that you are or have contemplated the downfall of the Greecian Empire, like Rome, they all made the same basic mistakes. It's intersting to look back at the causes and then compare with what is going on in today's world.
And last, Happy Birthday, nephew! =)
PS. Sorry about the misspells, I'm doing several things at once and not paying particular attention to the spelling. Oh, well.
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