Professor Sorogas took me to lunch last week at the faculty club. We haven't had the opportunity to spend a lot of time together but he's always just a phone call away. Two of the classes I'm teaching are really his (production and documentary). He will have to handle giving and grading the exams. Yesterday he told me that there are 140 students enrolled in the documentary class that I've had 10-12 attending. He's very active in all sorts of things, including working on getting a new Greek film archive museum/educational center up and running. He handles internationals in the dept (faculty and
students) and received degrees in Chicago.Lilla (sp) is a doctoral candidate in the department who serves as an assistant to the professor whose office I share. She studied for a year (or two) in Istanbul and hopes to spend some time during her doctoral work in the middle east. It's great to see how some of the students are able to combine travel with their studies. Europe still has a ways to go on standardizing the systems to make everything transferable from one European university to another. In some systems there haven't even been transcripts until
only recently. Some countries have a 3-year undergrad program followed by a 2-year master's while others have 4 and 1. The Bologna Process was supposed to standardize everything but it's still far from standard.
This is Rula. She's like an administrative coordinator for the department and has been very kind to me. The staff support in the department is huge. BSU TCOM has one staff person (thanks Kris), but here there is a pool of about 6 secretaries in the main office. That doesn't include Rula, another woman in the same
office or Stelios's secretary (as dept. head he has his own).
This is the group that attended my blogging workshop at Fulbright last week. Artemis (front left) is the Exec. Director of Fulbright. The others represent two groups: one from the Museum of Cycladic Art and one from the Acropolis.
Now onto the weekend cruise. Pix will take a few days to get posted. We cruised on Louis lines. They had a ship sink off Santorini in 2007 but I
never mentioned it to Kim. That has nothing to do with this life jacket picture - it's an obligatory exercise on all cruise ships as you set out from port. In 1972 when our family went to Italy, I slept through it. It's mostly just an opportunity to try to sell you pictures. The ship's photographer is everywhere: as you board the ship, at this drill, in the dining hall, as you get off at various ports of call, etc.
They use a bar code system for your boarding card. It contains all your account information so they don't have to handle cash at the bars, duty
free shop onboard, spa, etc. All the food is covered but excursions, liquor, room service, etc. are extra. What's clever is that they scan your card as you get off and on at ports of call, so they always know who is on the ship.
Our first port was Mykonos. We only had a few hours there and while it's beautiful, a few hours for sightseeing was enough for me. There was a walking tour available (about 40 Euros apiece) but we opted not to take it. Instead we decided to find all the photo opportunities on our own.
I guess Mykonos is known as the most touristic of the Cycladic islands. People actually sit at the bars and cafes along the shore to watch the sunset. Kim and I sat along a wall to watch. The sunset was nice but it was much more fun watching the people. Heard lots of Greek (obviously) and English spoken but heard quite a bit of Italian as well. It may be that one of the other 3 cruise ships parked in the harbor came from Italy.
We didn't dock in Mykonos; we left the ship by
tender boat, each of which could hold about 60 people. The ride was only about 5 minutes but they didn't pull out until the boat was filled. Getting off the ship it filled quickly because everyone was getting off at the same time. Returning, though, we had to wait a few minutes.
I made a conscious effort not to take so many ship pictures this trip, figuring I provided enough of those from the ferry but I ought to mention how nice it is. If you take a look at a map of the Aegean you can see that you're never far from some island or another, so you can usually look
off to the left or the right of the ship and see something interesting. Kim and I never took advantage of the spa or sauna, never took any of the salsa or Greek dancing lessons or any of the trivia quizzes and such, opting instead to spend the majority of our free time on the deck. I don't know about other people but I was certainly never bored: quite the contrary, I felt there wasn't enough time to do all the things I wanted to do.
This church is really 4 churches put together and is claimed to be the most photographed in Mykonos.
only recently. Some countries have a 3-year undergrad program followed by a 2-year master's while others have 4 and 1. The Bologna Process was supposed to standardize everything but it's still far from standard.This is Rula. She's like an administrative coordinator for the department and has been very kind to me. The staff support in the department is huge. BSU TCOM has one staff person (thanks Kris), but here there is a pool of about 6 secretaries in the main office. That doesn't include Rula, another woman in the same
office or Stelios's secretary (as dept. head he has his own).This is the group that attended my blogging workshop at Fulbright last week. Artemis (front left) is the Exec. Director of Fulbright. The others represent two groups: one from the Museum of Cycladic Art and one from the Acropolis.
Now onto the weekend cruise. Pix will take a few days to get posted. We cruised on Louis lines. They had a ship sink off Santorini in 2007 but I
never mentioned it to Kim. That has nothing to do with this life jacket picture - it's an obligatory exercise on all cruise ships as you set out from port. In 1972 when our family went to Italy, I slept through it. It's mostly just an opportunity to try to sell you pictures. The ship's photographer is everywhere: as you board the ship, at this drill, in the dining hall, as you get off at various ports of call, etc.They use a bar code system for your boarding card. It contains all your account information so they don't have to handle cash at the bars, duty
free shop onboard, spa, etc. All the food is covered but excursions, liquor, room service, etc. are extra. What's clever is that they scan your card as you get off and on at ports of call, so they always know who is on the ship.Our first port was Mykonos. We only had a few hours there and while it's beautiful, a few hours for sightseeing was enough for me. There was a walking tour available (about 40 Euros apiece) but we opted not to take it. Instead we decided to find all the photo opportunities on our own.
I guess Mykonos is known as the most touristic of the Cycladic islands. People actually sit at the bars and cafes along the shore to watch the sunset. Kim and I sat along a wall to watch. The sunset was nice but it was much more fun watching the people. Heard lots of Greek (obviously) and English spoken but heard quite a bit of Italian as well. It may be that one of the other 3 cruise ships parked in the harbor came from Italy.
We didn't dock in Mykonos; we left the ship by
tender boat, each of which could hold about 60 people. The ride was only about 5 minutes but they didn't pull out until the boat was filled. Getting off the ship it filled quickly because everyone was getting off at the same time. Returning, though, we had to wait a few minutes.I made a conscious effort not to take so many ship pictures this trip, figuring I provided enough of those from the ferry but I ought to mention how nice it is. If you take a look at a map of the Aegean you can see that you're never far from some island or another, so you can usually look
off to the left or the right of the ship and see something interesting. Kim and I never took advantage of the spa or sauna, never took any of the salsa or Greek dancing lessons or any of the trivia quizzes and such, opting instead to spend the majority of our free time on the deck. I don't know about other people but I was certainly never bored: quite the contrary, I felt there wasn't enough time to do all the things I wanted to do.This church is really 4 churches put together and is claimed to be the most photographed in Mykonos.
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