The text ‘Journal Writing-II: Reminiscences of a Journey to Greece,’ taken from Pilgrimages by Govinda Raj Bhattarai, features in B.Ed. 1st Year’s General English book (Tribhuvan University). The key takeaways from the text are as follows:
- Journal of Govinda Raj Bhattarai, a Nepali writer, Professor of English
- Date of the journal: September 13-15, 2006
- Greece: made up of 500 islands, birthplace of entire Western civilization, ancient seat of learning and human ingenuity.
- Outcome of a MOU (Memorandum of Understanding = formal agreement) signed between the Faculty of Education, T.U. and the University of the Aegean, Samos, Greece.
- Purpose of the visit: learn the use of electronic media in the application of distance learning /virtual learning. [The Aegean University had six virtual centers in different islands; teachers and students did not meet face to face.]
- Coordinators of Asia Link Program: Professors Robin and Socrates
- September 13, 2006:
- Starting out from Hotel Aegean where they were staying, near the town of Karlovasi
- Whole day’s tour around the island of Samos
- Name of the tourist guide: (a young girl) Irin
- Description of the island Samos by the guide Irin
- Forest destroyed by the wildfire of 2003
- Icaria, the island from where Icarus had fallen into the sea
- Reminds Bruegel’s painting of the falling Icarius on which William Carlos Williams composed a poem titled ‘Landscape with the Fall of Icarus’
- Evidelos, the highest mountain in the island of Samos
- Kumaradei, famous for earthernware and special ceramic objects
- Pythagoras cup
- Orthodox Church
- Pythogorio, an archaeological site
- September 14, 2006:
- Bathi, the capital town of Samos
- City museum
- Sculpture of Kouros, the Greek God
- September 15, 2006:
- Flying from Samos airport to Athens International Airport, and visiting different historical places in Athens, the capital city of Greece.
- Remembers Mathew Arnold’s poem Dover Beach
- Visited Agora, Acropolis, Parthenon temple, Syntagma Square, Theatre of Dionysus, Plaka, royal Garden
- Remembers Mahakavi Devkota as the first poet/writer to bring Greek Mythology into Nepali literature.
- Returning to hotel and doing final packing of luggage for the next morning’s flight to Nepal
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