The Basics

The Blog

This is a blog to keep track of my (hopefully) amazing adventures in Greece from May 30-June 28 2013. I'm keeping this blog as an assignment for the class I'm taking while over in Greece, but if you're interested (mom), by all means, read on. I'll try to keep things at least semi-amusing. 

The Project

We're going to be working at the archaeological site of Isthmia which is on the mainland near Corinth. The dig is through Ohio State University, and their website, which can be found here will tell you everything you want to know and more. Along with working with artifacts and doing general diggy things (not entirely sure what that entails yet, but my guess is possibly some ancient curse fighting and almost certainly some weed pulling), my project specifically is to work on creating a virtual tour for the site that can be downloaded and used as an app. Needless to say, I'm pretty geeked about this. Location-based apps and I are becoming very good friends. I already have visions of augmented reality swirling in my head and am pretty excited to get to the site and see what I'll be working with.

The Trip

In addition to working at Isthmia five days a week, on weekends we will be traveling to other historical/generally awesome places. So fair warning, plenty of this will be pictures of beaches and delicious foods. Except olives. Olive oil maybe, but never olives. Sorry, Greeks.

So there you have it...stay tuned for more, I guess.