So, the blog has made the rounds through everybody else in the class and back to me. And, seeing as how today has been rather uneventful, I’ll delve into my impressions of Paros since my arrival last week. I’d say that my favorite thing about the island is just moving around. The weather is amazing… Read more »

Who wakes up early with an agenda for the day, stays up late and works until it’s done? We do, IUPUI study abroad students. Starting schoolwork early on a sunny day may not be exciting for the regular student. But, we are not regular students in a regular classroom, we are on the beautiful island… Read more »

Near Marathi, at the base of the Paros island mountains, a king now sleeps. The King has not always slept; aroused, his influence stretched across millennia. At the peak of the King’s authority, all of Hellenic civilization pursued his favor. The God of Love, Aphrodite, sought his perfection so as to imitate it. Nike, the… Read more »

On this beautiful and peaceful island, walking in the sun, with the wind blowing in from the Aegean Sea, everything feels slow, as if time has stretched. It is hard to imagine we have been here for just 5 days, but in a good way. But our work is not progressing slowly. We started earlier… Read more »

Today I discovered the true beauty of the island of Paros. I lazily woke up around noon and decided to run along the coast. I stumbled up a beach which led me to a rocky coast with cliffs. I was intrigued and explored some more. Marble covered the beaches and cliffs with the mountains off… Read more »

My first few days in Paros have been indescribable. Yet I’ll try to describe them here now. Where to start? It’s beautiful here. The weather is different every day. First it’s perfect, then it’s raining, then its hurricane-type winds, and don’t get me started about the mosquitoes. Don’t come here if you can’t stand mosquitoes…. Read more »

What strikes me most about Greece is the people.  They seem to have learned how to balance their lives in a way that interweaves family and community into all they do.  Most of the businesses are owned privately by people who are surrounded by their family who, if they don’t actually work there, come and go… Read more »

On our second and first full day in Paros, our group received a crash course in the history of Paros and a brief tour of the city of Parikia. The tour began around 10 a.m. near the port where we met our guide Avgi Kalogianni. She led us down the cobbled paths of Parikia where… Read more »

Everybody has different travel stories, but we all share the same plan of flying into Athens, taking a bus to the port of Piraeus, and boarding a ferry to Paros. (Although I did have a brief and unintended visit to the island of Syros) Anyways, after a long, boring night of catching up on 2 days… Read more »

Today is a day of travel or final preparations for this year’s trip to Paros Greece.  Those who aren’t scratching their heads wondering what they are forgetting to pack are remembering what it was as they board the plane! The graduate TA was the first to arrive and reports that the weather is great and the… Read more »