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Five days in 4 Andelucian cities of southern Spain: Cadiz, fascinating port city where the Semester at Sea ship docked; Seville with it's Cathedral and 1929 Exposition center; Cordoba, the breath-taking Mesquita; and bustling Granada, location of The Alhambra, vast and yet intimate fortress with Moorish architecture and 'paradise' gardens built in the 13th through 15th centuries. The entire region of the south of Spain, the cities, and even specific buildings show the layer cake influences of Phoenicians, Romans, Visigoths, Christians,Jews, and Arabic Moors. In (2 to 8 hundred year 'waves') these various cultures entered, conquered, occupied, acculturated, and were, in-ture replaced in what is now southern Spain. Each left it's mark, architecture, artifacts, styles, and influences.
Arrival in each port has a City Orientation Tour favored by many Faculty, Staff, Life Long Learners, and some students. (In other words, many of the 'more mature set' and some of the students.) The City Tour gives 'the lay of the land' and a bit of city history ... (and really is quite good!)
Thereafter everyone branches out - SAS tours, independent travel, SAS day trips. Additionally, each Faculty person will lead several Faculty Directed Protocol trips which are highly suggested for their students and open to all others. Some of the students head straight for the beaches. Some of the students take the day trips
and then head straight for the Discos at night. Some of the students are totally engrossed in the academic and cultural aspects of this voyage around the world while some are squarely directed toward multi-cultural party life. Meanwhile, University classes are held on an alternate-day-schedule for all days while we are at sea traversing from port to port and the Faculty and Academic Dean are striving vigilantly towards academic rigor. The faculty are serious and soon-enough, so will the students be.
What an amazing experience!!!
Let me be the first to say how jealous I am.
ReplyDeleteAnd how proud that you acquired your sea-legs so soon for a landlubber from c'ville!
I would love to hear about the students responses to artmaking on the high seas. I sure hope you post some of their work for us all to see.
All is well at CCS. See you in the blog!
Eileen, the art lady
Looks grand!
ReplyDeleteHere's a suggestion -- there should be a way to do this in Blogger:
Upload your pictures as medium or large but then set their sizes as you have them in the posting. It should be possible then to click on a picture to get a good-sized view of it. On my blog, the pictures this works well for are about 640x480 pixels. The ones it doesn't work so well for are huge, 2000+ on a side.
Fabulous Judy. I will enjoy showing this to Carlos, my Spanish son-in-law. I have been to these places. Am so glad the trip is awesome. I am sure your students and faculty are totally amazed by you and your energetic spirit. Enjoy.
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