DePauw University - Mirage Yearbook (Greencastle, IN)

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STudy Abroad Greece . . . a sandal maker pumped our arms and grinned. You are Americans? Drink some ouzo. You like my son? You marry! eing in AThens, Greece was a Timeless experience for me, losTing from SepTember 4985 unTil The end of ThoT December. One of The mosT beouTiful weekends I had There was early in OcTober. I had been nosTolgicolly remembering The colors of ouTumn 0T home in lndiono while being seeped in The ciTy concreTe of AThens, where every building looked like a cemenT block, wiTh cemenT sidewalks, and even The ruins of The PorThenon in The disTonce were replaced in poTches wiTh cemenT. BuT This weekend, The DePouw group Took a Trip To Delphi, carrying me ouT To The mounToins and lnTo The oranges and reds of changing foliage. We saw a clear sTreom Tumbling down a rocky cliff in o onerfoll, ending in The founTcrin where They say The Delphic Oracle drank before she gave her prophecy. When we arrived GT Delphi iTselT, driving Through The rain while winding up Tiny roads, The rain sTopped end The clouds rose up in o misTy halo. EveryThing below us become vibronT wiTh color as The grey arose. The weT air jusT added a sharpness To The scene, and The air was full of flowers in bloom. For our orienTaTion inTo Greece, our group Took an overnighT ferry boaT To The island of CreTe. We learned of Minoan hisTory from our Greek Language and CulTure professor, Mimika DimiTri, and we saw The ruins oT Knossos, where King Minos supposedly ruled. We had our firsT run- ins wiTh The Greek noTiveseo 20 sondolmoker pumped our arms and grinned. You are Americans? Drink some ouzol You like my son? You marry him! We sTorTed enropTured CT The golden mounToins and dry landscapes, while we could see The blue ocean wherever we looked, We laughed CT The flocks of sheep crossing The roads in from of us. Once, as we wound The Tiny Volkswogon bus Through one-lone roads of a village, our driver, CosTos, leaned ouT The window To occepT o boskeT of fresh figs from a village man. This was Greece. AfTer The firsT few weeks of being mesmerized wiTh The Greek landscape, The surrounding ocean, The noTive villager's simple cloThes and The whiTe-woshed churches of blue posTer Tome, Then The reoliTy of Greece 05 a modern counTry began To seTTle in. On Thanksgiving Day, our Trip To EgypT was ThreoTened by The EgypTAir hijacking. The plane had been Token exochy seven days before our Trip, and was The some airline and flighT number ThoT we were To leave on. We were given The choice, individually, of wheTher each of us sTill wonTed To go or noT. i called home To ask my moTher for advice, buT The overseas lines were busy wiTh a Three hour woiT. Once i finally goT Through, my moTher couldn'T advise me 0T all. She Told me i knew The siTucTion beTTer Then she could ever know iT. l felT very alone, and very for from home. I decided To cancel my Trip, and one by one, The oThers of our group canceled, also, I wondered if The hijacking could have happened back in The USA. Back in AThens, oTTer a Trip we did Take To Turkey, I began To see The ciTy as The booming meTropolis iTs CiTizens saw iT as. The shop keepers oil spoke English for The many TourisTs. The Toxi drivers did, Too. The drycleaners, The resTourenT woiTers, The disco's borTenders oil spoke English. In TocT, There never seemed To be Cl Time when we really needed To know The Greek ThoT we sTudied, besides in our Greek class, and when we needed To Talk To our landlady. I never dreamed ThoT in The land of Homer, I would have To worry abouT o dripping kiTchen sink, and cockroaches. I never realized ThoT hoT oner hod To be heoTed each dove our hoT wcTer Tank balanced precoriously over our ToileTeond ThoT iT Took a full TwenTy minuTes To geT five minuTes' worTh of shower oner, if i wonTed iT hoT. I never dreamed o ciTy like AThens wouldn'T have recognized The reoliTy of dieT soda, dieT salad dressing, low-foT milk. Greece is The land of Olive Oil-we kidded each oTher obouT how we'd skip classes, book 0T DePauw, To sneak our hiTs of oil down in The dells, jusT To make iT Through The day. The yogurT in Greece is mode from sheep's milk, whole, rich and creamy. The food in general is fried. The Greeks weren'T concerned wiTh calories or moderoTion-Their moTTo wos To live-live-live. -Louro Holnes

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STudy Abroad Spain OTher Than seeing The sights, a sTudenT learns how To de- pend on himself and survive in an enfirely differenT culfure. everyThing mm o sTudenT could wonT ouT of o semesTer obrood. From The colorful Los Rombios To The dark alleys of Borrio GoTico, The ciTy is never wiThouT beouTy and surprise. EiTher in walking Through The famous coThedroI or opprecioTing The orT of boTh Miro 0nd Picasso, one can see The mojesTy, TrodiTion, ond hisToricoi precedence which Barcelona noT only provides To Spoin, buT The resT of Europe as well. WheTher you spend some of your Time 0T a soccer game surrounded by 80,000 rioTous fans, or o bulifighT, or even onching The famous founToins CT The base of The Palace of MonTjuich, one is never ieT dOWn by The many Things which on American sTudenT musT see while in Barcelona. Besides The ciTy, The Borcelono program has numerous offerings which can be Token odvonToge of by a sTudenT. The peaceful beaches of SiTges and The CosTo Bravo are less Then an hour away from The noisy copiToi 0T CoTquno. OTher Thon seeing The sighTs, o sTudenT learns how To depend on himself and survive in on enTirer differenT culTure. A sTudenT grows by living wiTh a Spanish fomiiy, Taking classes ToughT in Spanish, and going ouT mm The Spanish nighTIife. A Two week Trip Through SouThern Spain and Morocco noT only provides differenT diolecTs and differenT cusToms To grasp, buT also on example and TosTe of African and Arabic ways of life. The educoTion oT The UniversiTy of Barcelona is very procTicol wiTh I he Barcelona program provides 22 courses in o vorieTy of subjecTs To IeT sTudenTs know and undersTond more obouT Spain and iTs culTure. However, Talking To The CoTolon people and learning obouT noT only Their unique cuiTure buT Their ouTlondish pride in CoToiuno Teaches The mosT imporTonT lessons of o semesTer obrood. When speaking of The culTure, The educoTion, and The social life, a semesTer in Barcelona is on experience which will never be forgoTTen. -Tim Clork