Week n: The Adventure Continues Apparently.

I've never been particularly sure how to kick off a new blog series, so I'll just roll into introductions without any substantial build up at all. My name is Michael Coffey, a senior History and Latin major and this blog is about my time at the 2016 Athenian Agora Excavations, organized by the American School of Classical Studies in Athens. Among my readership I am sure some of the more observant sorts might recognize that it is no longer, in fact, 2016, which certainly puts a damper on the dramatic illusion a bit. Yes, I must admit that this blog will be an exercise in memory rather than direct experience. I did indeed go on the 2016 Athenian Agora Excavation, I have photographic evidence demonstrating as such, but due to some administrative wonkiness before and after the event, I ended up in the Spring 2017 class. A bit of a head-scratcher, I admit but I find that it's generally better to just roll with it and to try not to ask too many questions

That is me on the right in the Turban. Nobody can rightly say I wasn't there. I totally was.

The structure of this blog is going to be a sort of a reliving of my experience as it happened. I doubt my memory of the events will be completely perfect, but it should be good enough to get by. In addition to that, I think that the fact that I've had about six months time to let the experience slosh around in my subconscious will provide for some interesting insights which I did not have at the time of the actual doing. With all that preparatory build up in mind, off we go! The adventure begins (again, though for administrative purposes it has been continuously occurring for the past 6 months)!