EC EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN SUMMER PROGRAMS: Post 1

Saturday, June 25, 2016

Post 1

Yassou all!

Looks like our blogging game has been a little weak this first week due to all the fun we’ve been having in Crete!

I arrived in Athens the 16^th of June, a few days before the program officially started in Crete. Athens was way more crowded than I was expecting it to be. I also noticed that everywhere I went, people were smoking in my face. After running around aimlessly in Parliament Square in the 90-degree heat, I finally found Petros, Katie, Donovan, Collin, Angie, and Elias. I didn’t stay in Athens too long as we had to leave via ferry boat the evening of the 17^th. All I remember is all the amazing food we ate (shout out to Petros for hooking us up with good food) and the amazing view from the top of the Acropolis. When I arrived in Crete, I noticed that the environment was more relaxed compared to Athens. Our first day here was scorching hot so what’s a group of tired, sweaty college students to do? PLAY WITH THE HOSE OF COURSE!!! It was a great bonding experience playing drip, drip, drop. Sorry but not sorry to Collin for waking you up from your nap because “Petros wanted to talk to you” and then hosing you as you came out the door.

Honestly, #NORAGRETS about this trip so far.

Catch ya peeps on the flippity flop!!!

Tess

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EC Eastern Security Studies Program

In the summer of 2011, as the "Arab Spring" was unfolding and the "Eurozone Crisis" was entering its second year, the Emmanuel College Eastern Mediterranean Security Studies Program was established in Crete, as a way to make the location the classroom. Beyond the grand theoretical, historical and political understanding that can be achieved through reading and classroom discussion and exchange, a more immediate, intimate and truer appreciation of the complexities can only achieved by experiencing the cultures, languages of personal interaction.

Since 2012 students have been able to combine an intensive curricular study, with the experience of immersion and living in a local setting. The geopolitical and geoeconomic forces that have acted in the region for centuries, can be identified in the classroom, but they can only be understood by being there. This year's EC EMSS Program will add a fourth week of study, experience and exploration and will also travel to the islands of Rhodes, and Cyprus. In Rhodes we will be partnering with the Prefecture of Southern Aegean and the Aegean University, while in Cyprus we will be hosted by the University of Nicosia.