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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This timeworn view from Priene shows us the Herculean, antique, well – outlined and delightful columns. These 20 m long columns were used to stand up a huge and a holy temple built in Classical Period. Walking between these antique remains makes you feel like an ancient king.


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This is a picture I did not take of a lady praying hopelessly and quickly for a serious problem to be solved in Mary's House, the house of Virgin Mary in the mountains of Ephesus. She had several water droplets on her cheek, a small bag with some medicine in it. Not just water droplets, but real emotions were sliding down her cheek. The humid, dark air of the house made her emotions invisible and also helped her to pray easily. The mystic smell of the ancient house made me realize that it was the most realistic emotion I have seen for years.
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