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(Reis) Step, Step, 1, 2. I’m counting the steps on the treacherous journey up Big Daddy. Big Daddy is one of the biggest dunes in Namibia at 1256 ft from the base! Sadly, it isn’t the biggest but it sure is the most dramatic. As youíve probably noticed, that is a pretty long walk. Especially […]

(Emma) August 5th, 10:15 PM. I was born. “Emma! Emma! Look!” My dad calls from the other side of the camp site. I think it is an emergency so I sprint over to where he is. He points his finger to a tree. I think he is crazy because he is showing me a tree; […]

(Alex) 80 eyes turn to us as we walk into a one-room grade 2, 3 and 4 school totally different from ours. It was kind of awkward to begin with — 40 cute little black faces with big white eyes just staring at us. Then we realized that the children were just people from a […]

When we conjured this long itinerary, we wanted to ease into the dislocation we were likely to feel as our year proceeded.  We started with Iceland’s wild outdoor adventures with the benefit of little jet lag and lots of English. We then purposefully moved to family time in Sweden, then on to Athens and its […]

One Fish, Two Fish, Fry Fish, Chew Fish (Guest correspondent Nicholas Spinale with Reis) “Greek salad, pork souvlaki, chicken souvlaki.” The waiter listed the menu items with a thick Greek accent. “Grilled chicken, grilled pork, fried potatoes,” nothing out of the ordinary until, “Fried sardines.” Now that was something new. As I thought about what […]

(Emma) If you might think that your soccer team is good, come to Greece! Well even though not all of us Americans play soccer, we still got cremated. It was quite depressing. All of the Greek kids played,and as we saw, they play almost every day! As we approach the goal that we are trying […]

(Andrew) Today we had an exercise-full day in Nafplion, Greece. First we went to yet another breakfast buffet at our hotel. Then we went to Epidaurus. There we visited the best-preserved theater in the WORLD. There we took some pictures and a sketched the view. After that we went to a path so Alex could […]

(Reis) Around Greece from Athens to Delphi, Delphi to Olympia, and Olympia to Nafplion, where we are now. Along the way, learning and having fun with our guide, Antony At all the places, we learned about the ancient monuments and how they would be in antiquity. The way all of this was found out and […]

(Reis) After the “For the Fairest” golden apple beauty contest, when Paris of Troy gave the apple to Aphrodite and she promised that any woman he fell in love with, would fall in love with him, it all went downhill from there. Athena and Hera were very mad at him for not picking them. Paris […]

(Alex) 1, 2, 3… GO!! Those were the words I heard from our guide Antony as we began our race in the first Olympic Stadium ever. First, we walked through the legendary arch and saw the completely empty stadium. Getting there at 8 means the sun was a golden color and there was absolutely no […]