Right now, I feel that a sharpening of my work for the exam could to present these pictures that I drew in Lesvos, and not necesseraly make anything new. I am considering ways of maybe mixing the paintings I made with the pictures I took, in a digital way. I'm...
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Module #3 People from Lesbos are known as lesbians
When I signed up for this vourse, I had absolutely no idea of what Lesbos was. I had never heard of the island before. As i told friends where I was going, though, some of them would joke about Lesbos being a lesbian place assuming that island is where the word...
Module #3, “The Place of Site-Specificity: Society, Politics and Culture in Contemporary Lesvos”
An anthropological introduction to the island of Lesvos in historical and ethnographic perspective. Special issues in the ethnography of Lesvos. The transformation of Lesvos from a “peripheral” island of modern Greece to a “cosmopolitan” hotspot of Global South. Do...
Module 2 – “Freedom in Restraint” & “Find your Path” Propositions
"Freedom in Restraint" Proposition - Zhiyu (Gabby) Wen Take a walk somewhere other than your home that you are familiar with. It can be a work building, a street you walk down every day, a park you frequently go to, or a route you take to get to work or school. You...
Module 1, task 2
During my time in practice teaching, I did a research project where I wanted my class to do a gender swap of characters taken from the very popular Japanese based anime called Naruto. They were given four different characters that they could choose from swap the...
Module 1, Task 2_ Creativity and Imagination at school projects
As a teacher at high school, my everyday work is to use my imagination so as to make the topics that we discuss in class more interesting and comprehensible by the students. The work of a teacher is , as I use to say, a “full time job”, because nothing only begins or...
Module 1 _Task 1_represantations of home_wind and waves
I chose to introduce you to “my home”, using sounds because this is something I rarely do. That is because, while sounds play a significant role in my life, I seldom speak about them. Nevertheless, sounds offer me a sense of security while I move through space and...
Module 1: Creative (Re)Presentations of Home
Time flies The wave softly touch the pier The wind blows my thoughts away The sun softly shines my face The cold concrete under my feet The smell of ocean The noisy flagpole The flowers slowly taking a last gasp The fighting flowers withered Time flies on a pier far...
Module 1 – Creative (Re)Presentation of home.
When I think of home, my mind brings me back to when I was younger and lived with my parents. My thoughts go to when it was winter and I had a long day, but when the evening came and the sky got dark, I would often find myself snuggled up in the couch, nearby a lit...
Module 1: Speaking of Home
When I'm far from home, like I am right now, I have an accent. When I'm there I don't. It's the outsiders that "talk funny." My regional and ethnic style of communication is most comfortable to use and understand. Even when I'm not physically home I feel the...