Part of a series on my journalism faculty-led program through Italy and Greece. There are four stories today. The knife# We were going to the lifejacket graveyard. It's a dump that has boats and lifejackets from refugees that made it here. But each lifejacket is a good thing - it…
Part of a series on my journalism faculty-led program through Italy and Greece. Unless you're already familiar with Lesvos/Moria, I would recommend you read the Human Rights Watch report, and this New York Times story. Lesvos is the name of the island, and Moria is one of the main refugee…
Part of a series on my journalism faculty-led program through Italy and Greece. Today was uh...boring? Our group was done with our work ahead of time, so we technically had "free time", except we didn't have anything to do/see, so we just got even more ahead on our work and…
Part of a series on my journalism faculty-led program through Italy and Greece. Sunset from the Acropolis of Athens We had to go on a "photo safari" - two photos of ancient Athens, two of modern Athens, and one that was a hybrid. We went to the old Polytechnic university…
Part of a series on my journalism faculty-led program through Italy and Greece. But like really. It's not actually supposed have a high chance of raining in Athens...and yet it rained. We had a tourist day planned, visiting the islands of Hydra, Poros, and Aegina. Hydra was nice, it was…
Part of a series on my journalism faculty-led program through Italy and Greece. Yes, I fell behind on blogging :/. We hit the ground running in Athens, and the first morning, went to interview refugees in Victoria Square. Since we only spoke English, we looked for people roughly our age,…
