ITINERARY – MOBILITY TO GREECE (27 - 31 MARCH 2017)

MONDAY 27 MARCH 2017

 TUESDAY 28 MARCH 2017

  WEDNESDAY 29 MARCH 2017

 THURSDAY 30 MARCH 2017

 FRIDAY 31 MARCH 2017

This is how a German student experienced the mobility to Greece:

After our arrival on Sunday and getting to know the host family, we were received at school on Monday morning and learned about the nature of light through various performances by the guest students and their teachers, for example there was an experiment on how light is refracted in our eyes, which I found very interesting.

After that we were introduced to the basics of Constellations before we left for Kyllini. After the return, my guest student and I were picked up by her mother and I tried to explain to them what it means to be a vegetarian. This was more difficult than I thought.

Tuesday morning, we met at the school to get on the bus and drive to the village of Andritsaina. We went to a large temple of Apollo, where a woman told us some facts about the temple and Apollo in general and why the temple was oriented north.

We got on the bus again and back to Andritsaina for lunch, after a short break we went on. We walked once across the city, after seemingly endless kilometers we arrived at a historical library in which many rare books stood.

We watched a video about the founder of the library. After a rather hot return trip (the air conditioning didn't work), we went home with our guest students.

On Wednesdays, an important visitor came to the school, namely Xenophon Moussas, Professor of Space Physics at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

He explained to us, the Antikythera mechanism and how it worked in a very exciting way. Afterwards we went to lunch where the local clergymen were also guests.

This was a great event for our guest students and us and we realized how important their religion is to them and that it is very different from ours. This visit was even pictured in the local newspaper the next day. A very impressive lunch.

On Thursday, we drove to Ancient Ilida and Ancient Olympia, where we learned a lot about sculpture, architecture, life at that time and the connection with different gods. In the evening in Varda, there was already a small private graduation party for us from our guest students, which I liked very much.

On our last day, we started with a visit to the next bigger city Patras, where we were shown the very modern Archaeological Museum and the Old Town. Afterwards we went back to the school where we practiced a Planisphere construction, because in the evening we had a large official closing ceremony at the school. Many astronomers with their telescopes had also come to this celebration.

So we could try out our made Planisphere and watch the evening sky through different telescopes. Especially the constellation Orion was very easy to recognize and I learned a lot about its history and peculiarities.

It was really hard for me to say goodbye to my host student the next day because she had taken really good care of me. I had so many presents with me that I was even afraid I couldn't take everything on the plane. We have decided to stay in contact and visit each other again soon.

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