This entry comes from Whitney Hughlett. Whitney is a student at Lone Star College, majoring in Visual Communications. She is a talented photographer and filmmaker. She writes this entry to her classmates. So Saturday comes, everyone has plans to go out and do stuff, and help with the archeological dig that is going on, while I am preparing to go...

Sunday, 1 June 2008 - VIIAH, Castellammare di Stabia - Free Day

Week 3 Monday, 2 June 2008 - VIIAH, Castellammare di Stabia Lecture Topic: HIST: Transformation of the Classical World - Medieval Europe& the Dark Ages / GEOG: Africa - SW Asia - Political Geography AM: 09:00 - Classroom Lecture / Discussion PM: 14:30 - Classroom Lecture / Discussion Blog: Blog entry to follow

Tuesday: Underwater! What an interesting day! Audrey arranged for us to begin our classes this morning with a presentation by the Director of the Underwater Archeology Department of the RAS. This group is working to coordinate the activities and technologies of marine sciences people worldwide in hopes of developing an advanced program of marine...

The following guest blog entry has been provided by Robert Edwards. Robert is majoring in Geographic Information Systems. While studying in Castellammare, he is working on a special project to map the essential services that Audrey has listed in her orientation guide to the Institute. When complete, this project should provide an interactive map...

Alright, so I'm switching from what I was doing in the attempt to pull together everything (photos, blog). It's insanely difficult to keep up with writing, sorry I've slacked terribly. Hopefully this works well with the whole pictures thing. Sorry for making you all move! More later, hopefully.

The following blog entry comes from Jared Camarata. Jared is studying Computer Science and will transfer to the University of Texas this fall. He travelled briefly to Palermo in search of his Sicilian roots before joining our program in Castellammare di Stabia. Hello all. I will start off with Sunday morning. After I had breakfast and said goodb...

Tuesday, 20 May 2008 - VIIAH, Castellammare di Stabia Vesuvian International Institute for Archeology and the Humanities (VIIAH) AULA Maria Ausiliatrice Classroom Lecture Topic: HIST: Ancient Greece, Hellenistic and Hellenic World / GEOG: Europe & Russia. Map Exercises AM: 09:00 - Classroom Lecture / Discussion PM: 14:00 - Classroom Lecture ...

Blog Entry-travel to Castellammare di Stabia We left Frascati and moved south on Monday. We managed to get to the main train station in Rome with an hour before our train ride to Naples. The coffee shop in the station was a hoot. The coffee chefs had things flying. I don't know which was more energizing, the shot of expresso or the shouting and ...