A journey of discovery of the 'Ancient Greece and .... Something more 
C were faced with the Ithaca. "We inform the gentlemen passengers disembarking at the port of Patras is scheduled at 14:00, the usual female voice announces the official notices.
was all true: a group of 14 boys from Verona, used to know Greece only in the pages of books, would have "touched for the sites for years achieved only through the filter of fantasy. And here is just a ferry Minoan lines could become a time of the Phoenicians who brought the ship to Ithaca Ulysses.
We were all 'beginning of the fifth year of school: the fears were many and great responsibility that we take in the' absent from school 12 days. But the smiles were enough of our fellow travelers and enthusiastic words of the researcher who has accompanied us all the time for us to understand that what we were taking would be an 'unforgettable experience ... and it did. This is why we find some difficulty in 'express in words and through a logical and complete the swirl of memories that are inside a drawer called Greece 2007.
all began in May last year, when some professors have told us of the 'opportunity to participate in' initiative "Old Messene. It was a project consisting of two phases: the first consisted of a series of five lectures entitled "Messene and Messenia from 'Antiquity to the Serenissima" held between April and May, the second in' research, cataloging, and relief Archaeological excavation at the site in September.
To prepare for that to which we were getting were Professor Claude Antonetti, professor of Greek History at University Ca 'Foscari of Venice, Damiana Baldassarra, PhD, Department of Science of' Antiquity and the Middle East of the University, prof. Andrea Nanetti, Professor of History of Venice in the Middle Ages' s University of Bologna. During the meetings, the experts took turns in presenting each of its area of \u200b\u200bcompetence. Particularly effective was the lesson then the prof. Petros G. Themelis that, in addition to being professor of Classical Archaeology at 'University of Crete, is director of the Center for Archaeological Studies in Athens Messenia.
So on Sept. 19 we were ready to enter "phase 2" which took place in a closed and no more cold palace in Verona, but warm and bright in the sky of Messinia. The five of us students of the Lyceum "G. Cotta Legnago (Verona), accompanied by Professor Chiara Giacometti we aggregate to seven high school students' G. Fracastoro" of Verona, led by prof. Giandomenico Sergio and their formidable headmaster Marcello Schiavo. At the port of Ancona Damiana Baldassarra we would join in, we had already got to know the cycle of conferences in May. During the twelve days this young researcher has proved not only a great expert archaeologist and passionate, but also a nice companion in adventure.
After an intense two-day trip, where we experienced four means of transport (train-bus-ferry-bus), we have reached Akrogiali (Kalamata) where there waiting for our residence "Iphigenia." View 's taught us look perplexed: maybe some of us will have to be sacrificed "in order to be granted to the fleet starting auspicious and happy"?! (1. continues )
Giulia Pasqualin III B and III C Marta Meneghello Liceo Classico "G. Cotta Legnago
