Daily Updates
Week Eight: May 13
13 May: Sarah S. J., the coolest, and Perkins the Monster reporting: So, we began the day with a gleaming 7.30 am departure from the hotel, following wake up calls that sounded suspiciously like annoying animals. Cough, cough, cough. (That’s the group speaking.) We all jammed on the subway like Athens regulars, and found our very own way down to the Piraeus, like grown-ups. Then Prof. Christesen took us on a special long cut to the Piraeus museum. After an intriguing analysis on the “Piraeus Bronzes,” where we showed off for the museum people and Anais tantalized us with the *intro* to her presentation, we headed out. With pcc in the lead, we charged through the Piraeus to get to our boat only fifteen minutes early like rabid chipmunks. As the lion emerges from his morning den with sharp hunger for a raven, we got on the boat to Aegina. On the crazy fast boat (technical term) to Aegina, like mosquitos flying through a sea of lipstick, cough, cough, we annoyed all the natives around us with mindless chatter about things like how cool the fast boat was. The leaders, us, then charged around the port of Aegina doing awesome errands and organizing the day. Then we met up with Dr. Walter Gauss for an informative lecture on the many (and we mean many) layers of Kolonna. After Melissa perfected her tan line still further, we were run through town without a thought for our starving tummies (we have to eat every three hours), and piled into taxis for Aphaia. Where you go? Aphaia. Where?!? A-pha-ia. No, I’m not a native. Is that what you wanted to hear? Professor Christesen sent us off to buy massive amounts of fruit to pacify the starving students. Now that I finally woke Sarah up from her nap, we need to go get our toasts at Everest, so we’re going to wrap this up. Aphaia was awesome- it’s a temple, eh? Cough. It had 24 of its 32 columns still standing, and we watched the sun go down further while we were there. As we were waiting for the bus back to the port, what we thought was our bus, and was annoyingly not our bus, kept pulling up over and over again. We got trampled, eaten alive, stepped on and accosted by tourists that were mostly French, but partially Japanese. Five buses full. Finally, the bus came. Sarah fell asleep, so I’ll tell you it was pretty. (I do not have vehicular narcolepsy!) We then all took full advantage of our unbounded freedom to stay in Aegina as long as we wanted by immediately leaving all together. Sarah and I rushed all the way back to our hotel, to lay on our beds. We don’t know what the rest of the group did. Good night.
13 May: Rebecca and Sarah can't stay serious long enough for a photo.
13 May: We started the day in the Piraeus Museum.
13 May: A bronze statue of Artemis that was found in Piraeus.
13 May: A bronze statue of Athena.
13 May: The Artemis statue.
13 May: A bronze dramatic mask.
13 May: Discussing the bronze kouros.
13 May: Anais gives her presentation on the Brauronian rituals for girls.
13 May: Octopus hanging out to dry on the island of Aegina.
13 May: Things certainly are more colorful around here.
13 May: Dr. Gauss introduces the group to the ancient site of Kolona.
13 May: A scenic view of Aegina's port.
13 May: A view from Kolona.
13 May: It's not a bad place to work at all...
13 May: In fact, the beaches are quite nice.
13 May: The only standing column on the site.
13 May: Wild flowers grow at Kolona.
13 May: The port.
13 May: The fortification walls of Kolona.
13 May: The "surfer" fragment from the Aegina Museum.
13 May: A fragment showing Odysseus beneath the sheep.
13 May: Flora from the area.
13 May: Flora from the area.
13 May: The Temple of Aphaia on Aegina.
13 May: The Temple of Aphaia on Aegina.
13 May: The Temple of Aphaia on Aegina.
13 May: There is the danger of working too hard on these trips...
13 May: The black and white series: On the boat back to Athens.
13 May: Katie.
13 May: The studious ones.
13 May: Katie. Ani and Rebecca.
13 May: Michael.