Yasas! What a week here at LEAD Greece! We started with Orientation and name games on Tuesday so that everyone could get quickly acclimated to our new home of Glyfada. Despite traveling for almost two days, they were full of energy and eager to win Whomp 'Em, Global LEAD's signature "name game." The idea is to "Whomp" the person's name who is called before they call out someone else's name. As you can see, we have some competitive ones in the bunch!
Then we overindulged in a traditional Greek dinner, family style, over-looking the harbor of Piraeus before we called it a night!
From there on, it's been GO! GO! GO! With a visit from 4 local Somalis giving their account of their hardships and trials as they sought refuge in Athens as well as two highly regarded economists, Alec Mally and Stephonos Costopoulos, our students were quickly exposed to the current state of Greece.
We took Thursday and Friday to cruise the islands and visit Ancient Corinth, so be sure to ask your students for photos! Especially if they bungee jumped off the bridge!
You can ask me questions via ustream tomorrow, Sunday at 3:30 EST.
Thanks!
Beth Ann
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