School here is different than anything back home. I am taking five classes, three history, one political science, and Greek 101. They are taught in three different buildings all spread throughout the island. One is at the University of the Aegean campus and looks much like any college building. It is in the middle of Rhodes Town, the main city of the island. Another building is actually an aquarium that is located on the tip of Rhodes Town which is also the tip of the island. As my fellow classmates and I are taught we are given a panoramic view of the ocean with the mountains of Turkey silhouetting the horizon a mere five miles in the distance. The third building is located in the town I live in, Soroni, which is about 45 minutes from Rhodes Town.

Soroni is a small village where everyone seems to be related to everyone else. There are about 20 students in the study abroad program and we are all housed in apartments that are more of a mini dorm. The locals have been extremely nice to us so far, and the instant we go anywhere they will ask if we are the Americans from Soroni. I guess we really stick out.