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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A web or a house that is protected by the strong and unbreakable walls that leans against the stairs to go down to a forest, that surrounds the small, fragile and innocent creature trying to survive in this cruel and unbearable world, his world nothing like the real world, in Turkey at the Virgin Mary's house!



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This is a photo I did not take of us starting to walk slowly towards Migros, to do some shopping, because eating the food that was given by the hotel was frustrating, because many of us didn't even eat any of it, but when we saw the handmade, perfect sandwiches at the shop next to the grocery store, everyone thought why not? When me and others got the chance to order we didn't wait a minute. Oh, when we got the chance to hold it in our hands and eat it, we knew it was delicious. It was a taste none of us would forget because it was even better than the sandwiches we ate in Ankara.
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