Morgan here!
We've just gotten everything set up for our independent research project for J-Term 2012 at Hollins University!
And what exactly is it that we are doing, you may ask....?!
Well... we're going to Europe. More specifically, we're going to Greece, Italy, the UK and Ireland. In each of these countries, we plan to study their different environmental, political, economic, cultural and ecological aspects and to blog about them here. Pretty easy, right?
There are three of us going on this trip- myself, Brittany Hanavan and Emily Cook (we'll figure out how to add them on here so they can post and you can creep on them just as much as you'll be creeping on me). Each of us are studying different things at our little liberal arts college. I'm majoring in International Studies with a double minor in Biology and Economics, Brit is majoring and minoring in some combination of Environmental Studies, Political Science and Biology and Emily is simply a Bio major (or so she thinks... She's a Sophomore and hasn't had to declare yet...). We plan on blogging about what we observe and learn everyday on a rotating basis. This way, you won't have to hear it all from one point of view and you'll be privy to learning about the world through our different disciplines of study.
Well... we're going to Europe. More specifically, we're going to Greece, Italy, the UK and Ireland. In each of these countries, we plan to study their different environmental, political, economic, cultural and ecological aspects and to blog about them here. Pretty easy, right?
There are three of us going on this trip- myself, Brittany Hanavan and Emily Cook (we'll figure out how to add them on here so they can post and you can creep on them just as much as you'll be creeping on me). Each of us are studying different things at our little liberal arts college. I'm majoring in International Studies with a double minor in Biology and Economics, Brit is majoring and minoring in some combination of Environmental Studies, Political Science and Biology and Emily is simply a Bio major (or so she thinks... She's a Sophomore and hasn't had to declare yet...). We plan on blogging about what we observe and learn everyday on a rotating basis. This way, you won't have to hear it all from one point of view and you'll be privy to learning about the world through our different disciplines of study.
Right now, we're just doing the paperwork for all of this. Since we're already approved by our advisers, we've bought our plane tickets! We're leaving on December 28th for Athens and coming back January 30th from Dublin. We'll be sleeping on couches, hostel bunks, and if we're lucky, we might even score a bed every once in a while. And why are we suffering all of this hardship of getting to travel the world and see awesome things and meet great new people? To tell you what is really happening in Europe.
Greece's and Ireland's economies aren't in the best of shape (Greece has had some riots; the Irish just aren't the rioting type when they're sober). However, Italy and the UK, also members of the European Union, aren't declining as much as Greece and Ireland. By being in these four countries, we're hoping that we can produce a simplistic understanding of what is truly going down- and we hope to relate it back to you.
Here's some food for thought until our next post:
Until next time! =]
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