EC EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN SUMMER PROGRAMS

Sunday, June 26, 2016

June 26, 2016

The rest of this week has been really fun and eventful! On Friday, we had the chance to participate in a traditional Cretan festival (aka the Husband finding festival). We were told we would have to wear costumes, but I wasn't expecting all of those layers! The people at the festival were incredibly welcoming and kind. Irine and Cleo taught us their dances while we tried to teach them ours. The next day we got to go to Bali (the one in Greece). Tess, Donovan (also known as Mikalis), Gabby and I built up the courage to face the water park. The water park was an amazing time, even though we fell on our faces more times than I can count. I hope week 2 has many more adventures!

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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.