After a few days of hanging out and exploring the city, we finally had our first day of classes. Mine, The Ancient City and Love In Ancient Greek Literature, seem like they won't be too challenging though there will be a lot of writing associated with them. Kinda makes me wonder if I could get away with using this here blog as my form of the journals...
Following the classes, I lingered in the room before we had another museum trip around 2:30. I think this museum may have been the best one we've seen yet and seemed to have a rather old school feel to it. I also managed to take a ton more pictures of several things there and will probably end up with too many photo albums by the time this whole thing is through.
After hanging around the hotel some more and grabbing dinner around town at one point, another highlight of the day came about when about ten of us went to a nightclub with the hotel's bartender. We ended up riding through the Athenian subways (Don't worry, they're nothing like New York...) and went through a lot of crowds for most of the trip there. Of course, not too many of us drank that much though I left early with about half of the group a little before midnight. I figured it probably wouldn't be too good of an idea to do it the night before we have two introductory quizzes. That and I didn't get around to taking a siesta today so that's made me a little tired as well.
So I should probably go to bed now. It's about 1:45 AM here...
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Hey Chris, I'm just curious. What kind of museums are you attending? If they are art museums, what genres are you seeing... paintings, sculptures, murals, etc.? When Bill and I went to The Louve, the 2 most surprising things to see were the Mona Lisa (it's a very small picture), and the gargantuan size of the sculptures. Both impressive, nonetheless. Thanks for blogging, has been fun keeping up with you.
ReplyDeleteAll of the museums that we've been to have been oriented towards the anthropological/archaeological sides of Greece, though I suppose they could arguably be considered art in some ways. It's mostly been pottery, objects from Greek daily life, and statues/chiseled images. Pretty intriguing stuff overall.
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