We will explore the history of the ancient and modern Olympic Games and their influence on modern sport through first hand exploration of Olympics sites. The students will visit major venues of past and present Olympic activities. London, Paris, Lausanne, Athens and Olympia the ancient home of the Greek Olympics.
Monday, May 30, 2011
Olympia
So today, was our only complete day in Olympia and Drew's blog post "Olympia" summarizes all the historical archaeological goodies we saw today. But, I'm going to have to say, the best part of this day for me was having lunch/appetizing for dinner with Matt and Sam. Yes, Olympia has been great, because it's something we spoke about in class, and one of the sites I was most excited about. I wanted to see, the track and the museums, but after Robert (our tour guide, who is very knowledgeable on the subject) told us most of this was rebuilt and some artifacts in the museum were fake I was really disappointed. So just sitting down with Matt and Sam having one two three four or more drinks made my day. We sat at the "Tavern" for like 4 hours just people watching waiting for it to be 7pm, to go to the place right across the street to have dinner with everybody else and as Drew said "I personally enjoy how the Greeks eat because you can just keep ordering and ordering and the food will keep on coming. As it is whenever the entire group eats together there was a lot fun and a lot of laughter."
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