Welcome to our visual blog for the BUPS/BIS 2009 8th grade Ephesus trip. These photographs, captions and "unphotographs" represent a joint venture in English and art class capturing the experience of the students' final middle school trip at BUPS/BIS. Many still remember and speak fondly of the games at Patalya in 6th grade and the adventures in Cappadocia last year in 7th. This year's experience held the same kind of wonder and memories, all the more poignant since in just a little time they will graduate from the 8th grade. The students have chosen their best landscape, portrait and detail photograph, writing a concise and descriptive caption for one. Using Michael David Murphy's "Unphotographable" as an inspiration, the students also wrought an image in words when its meaning went beyond the pixel.

Even though they will be in the same building next year and have many of the same teachers, high school is a different world. Every assignment and class trip of middle school has been constructed to help the students succeed in this new realm. But, as you will see from the photos of Ephesus and its surrounding areas and as the students realized, the past is never far away, and it's always the foundation for the future.
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Anna Zheltukhina


In the spring of 2009 while blooming excavations in Miletus were uncovering the past making the foot steps of Roman soldiers seem just round the corner, on the periphery the heat and hazy air was transforming abandoned mosques into hills with lone trees.


Anna Zheltukhina

This is a picture I did not take of a silhouette of a man standing alone at the very top of a huge amphitheater, the blazing sun and a cloudless, dazzling, blue sky behind him. With his hand shielding his eyes from the sun and his red-checkered shirt wavering in the wind, he looked more like a Greek statue than a man. The steps beneath him in different tints and shades of grey were big slabs of concrete crudely put together on a steep hillside. Between the cracks in the slabs weeds were seeping through creating a network of green paths. In the ancient city of Miletus despite earthquakes and destructive greenery people were scaling mountains and reaching peaks at discovering the past.