This is a picture I did not take when I was sitting on my gray bull beach towel at the beach near Ephesus; I could hear the waves hitting against the shore and I could feel the warm fresh breeze brushing through my hair and cooling down my skin. I was looking at all the people who were swimming in the sea and a couple of them running out while splashing water everywhere screaming ‘‘it's so cold!!'' So I had decided I wasn't going to go swim and spoil the wonderful moment I was enjoying while it lasted. The view from where I was sitting was perfectly located, there was no one splashing salty, cold water and spreading sand particles in my face. I sat there admiring the view and thinking of all the great wonders of Ephesus.
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.
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.
