Hello people of the world, I'm in Greece and it has been great.
The third island we visited, was an island called Skiathos. In Skiathos we chilled out, went to the beaches, and did some school work. We did take one big hike that was long and hilly. When we reached the top of the big hill we got to a monastery. There we met people who were helping to restore a church and they offered for us to stay and have lunch with them. We had yummy cheese pies. They made the pies in a traditional wood-burning stove. I thought it was nice to have lunch with the locals.
Then we went to Delphi, or otherwise known as the belly button of the world. Yes, the belly button of the world! It is called that because when the god Zeus wanted to find the center of the world, he released two eagles, one from each end of the earth. The eagles met at Delphi, so he said it was the center of the world. Where the two eagles met, they built a temple for an oracle, who is a person that can tell the future and speak to the gods in the heavens. The people on earth would come to the oracle and ask questions about important stuff and the oracle would tell them the answer. So it was a very special place. Tyler and I tried to predict the future, so we'll see what happens!
From there, we went to one of the most amazing places in Greece. It is where the first Olympic games were held in ancient Olympia. There we saw the first track ever used, which we even got to run on.
The third island we visited, was an island called Skiathos. In Skiathos we chilled out, went to the beaches, and did some school work. We did take one big hike that was long and hilly. When we reached the top of the big hill we got to a monastery. There we met people who were helping to restore a church and they offered for us to stay and have lunch with them. We had yummy cheese pies. They made the pies in a traditional wood-burning stove. I thought it was nice to have lunch with the locals.
Then we went to Delphi, or otherwise known as the belly button of the world. Yes, the belly button of the world! It is called that because when the god Zeus wanted to find the center of the world, he released two eagles, one from each end of the earth. The eagles met at Delphi, so he said it was the center of the world. Where the two eagles met, they built a temple for an oracle, who is a person that can tell the future and speak to the gods in the heavens. The people on earth would come to the oracle and ask questions about important stuff and the oracle would tell them the answer. So it was a very special place. Tyler and I tried to predict the future, so we'll see what happens!
From there, we went to one of the most amazing places in Greece. It is where the first Olympic games were held in ancient Olympia. There we saw the first track ever used, which we even got to run on.
The first Olympics were held in 776 B.C. Did you know that the athletes
in the first Olympics were all naked? That's because they wore long
tunics back then, which weren't like the Nike sports clothes we have
now and would have been really hard to run in. And speaking of Nike,
Nike was actually named after the goddess of victory and the Nike
"swoosh" is really meant to be the goddess Athena's wing. I think it's
pretty cool that you can see that the ancient Greeks still influence us
today.
Greece was awesome and I really want to come back. The people are very nice and if you go, bring sunscreen.
Greece was awesome and I really want to come back. The people are very nice and if you go, bring sunscreen.
Cool! I learned about ancient Greece last year in school (sixth grade). One of our sixth grade teachers even started to hold our own Olympic games. Last year (when I was in sixth grade) was the first ever Olympic Games for my school. Our teacher was really into achieving 'arete' (excellence). I won arete in for overall excellence in poetry. I gained honor for myself and for my class's city (Athens). It was fun.
Speaking of the Delphic Oracle, she only gave fortunes in riddles. So if someone wanted to know their future, they'd first have to figure out what her riddle meant. From old accounts, they were hard and really confusing.
the orignal centre of the world is kabbah
The word marathon comes from the time when a king's messenger ran 26 miles to deliver a message to another king in the city of Marathon. Today, people run 26 miles, and call it marathon beause of this.
That is so coooool!!!!!!!!!!! Very unfortunate that you could not run in those shoes.
I can tell that your appetite for international foods has not changed at all since your last blog, and I am currently studying Greek mythology in my Ila enrichment class so these facts that you are stating are fresh in my mind. I do remember that all of mythology especially Greek’s, tell how something came to be. That will explain the temple supposedly In the middle of Earth, also I remember that the Greeks paid little attention to the amount of clothes on their body, and they are often competing in Olympic events… in fact that is where the Olympic games originated.
I want to go to Greece!