Last night we went out for a drink and some food (beer and chicken wings) – very western – at a place near La Festa near my apartment. It was just the "elementary team": Ken, Kay, Helen and I. There is going to be a major staff change at the hagwon, and it is going to be a difficult transition for the hagwon and for me, I expect. More work, at least in the medium term. I'll give details later when I can feel confident I'm not breaking any confidentiality issues.
This morning, I finished one of my history books that I bought a few weeks ago. It was The Birth of Classical Europe, by Simon Price and Peter Thonemann. It's a kind of summary of the classical period. The first half could be called "the rise of Greece" and the second half could be called "The rise of Rome." I was most interested in the peripheral cultures – the Cretans, Trojans, Phoenicians, Etruscans and Celts were the "runners up" in the classical Mediterranean sweepstakes. I was particularly interesting in the interesting fact that Massilia (modern Marseille in France) was a flourishing Greek city before Rome. I hadn't really thought about that. It was an interesting intersection of Greek and Celtic culture.
[daily log: walking, 5 km]
