Museum Visit

Yesterday, we went on a field trip to the Archeological Museum in town. The featured exhibit was a coin collection from the time of Alexander the Great. There was an elementary class field trip in that room while we were there, so I didn't get to see much of that exhibit, but I did see some, and I was surprised at how irregular the coins were.



(Most of the pictures I took were through a glass display case so the angles are sort of weird to avoid reflections.)

There was also a good set of permanent exhibits talking about the geography of this region and important archeological sites, that we've actually been to. We learned more about the Necromantion,which was the "gate to the underworld" we went to a few weeks ago, and also more about the history behind the Theatre of Dodoni. I wish we'd been to the museum first so we would have appreciated the historical significance of those places more, but they were still excellent field trips.

Here are a couple more pictures of archeological finds displayed in the museum:




The rest of my day was less exciting; we went back for lunch (eggplant and salad with tomatoes, cucumber and feta cheese, which is my favorite lunch!). We also had some more class (we're almost up to modern times in our Greek/Albanian class), and I prepared for an interview, did the interview via webcam (I think it went really well), went on a late-night, moonlit run and studied some Greek.