May 18, 2009
Rising junior running back Gaston Miller and rising senior safety Joel Caldwell are spending May 4-29 studying abroad in Greece. The duo is taking a three-credit hour course called “Uncovering Greek Religion: Cults, Sanctuaries & Festivals in the Ancient World.” While being immersed in a foreign culture for the first time in his life, Miller will provide Vanderbilt fans with updates of his experiences in Greece on VUCommodores.com. (Photo by Steve Green)
Also, check out Ryan Schulz’s feature on Miller and Caldwell in Commodore Nation magazine — click here
Monday, May 18
Hello from Greece!
We traveled through Ancient Sparta, Messene, and Pylos today, and now we are in Olympia. We not long ago visited the museum and Sanctuary of Zeus,the king of all Greek Gods. Tomorrow, we will head to the site where the Ancient Olympic games were played.
Although I have been living in Greece for nearly two weeks, it is still difficult to get the real feeling of what it is like to live here. I am unsure about what food is prepared inside of the homes of the Greek people. In America, I would call them home-cooked meals. We have eaten out everywhere that we go. Mostly all restaurants are Greek and prepare Greek meals; however, while in Athens we stumbled across a McDonald’s that was very similar to an American McDonald’s with a few item exceptions. We also saw a Subway in Athens but did not happen to stop there for food.
At all of the hotels of the Greek cities we have visited so far, only a few channels are shown in English. Many of them are news channels and I have only seen a couple of English speaking movies while here. From watching some sports channels while here, it appears that basketball and soccer are in season.
Until next time,