We will be getting Visas to enter Turkey.
In order for you to enter the country of Turkey I need you to send me the following information:
Passport Number
Place of Issue
Date of Issue
Date of Expiration
Your Birthplace (state)
Your Birthdate
Country of Citizenship
Your Profession
Please email this information to
eric.berg@mac.edu
Thank you!
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Friday, March 26, 2010
Roommate in Chicago
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Pre-Trip Meeting!
Greetings everyone.
Dr. Stewart and I are going to hold a pre-trip informational meeting. At this meeting you will receive important written information from us, general information about the trip, and most importantly, have an opportunity to ask questions!
The meeting:
Tuesday, April 20th, 8pm-9pm at MacMurray College's Thoresen Auditorium in the Springer Complex.
Please make every effort to attend this meeting.
Travelers that can not make it to Jacksonville: I will post all the information from the meeting on this blog.
Thanks!
Dr. Berg
Dr. Stewart and I are going to hold a pre-trip informational meeting. At this meeting you will receive important written information from us, general information about the trip, and most importantly, have an opportunity to ask questions!
The meeting:
Tuesday, April 20th, 8pm-9pm at MacMurray College's Thoresen Auditorium in the Springer Complex.
Please make every effort to attend this meeting.
Travelers that can not make it to Jacksonville: I will post all the information from the meeting on this blog.
Thanks!
Dr. Berg
Friday, March 19, 2010
Getting to Chicago
Greetings everyone.
A word about getting to Chicago.
Dr. Stewart and Dr. Berg will be meeting you in the airport in Chicago on May 14th. We will not be meeting and organizing the ride from Jacksonville to Chicago. I would suggest two options for this end of the trip.
1. Organize a carpool from Jacksonville to Chicago and establish in advance where you are going to park unless someone will drive your group to the airport. The best advice for this option is to try and find a person willing to take you to and from the airport.
2. Get a hotel with "park and ride" service near the airport in Chicago. I will add a list of hotels and prices that I found doing a quick intenet search. With this option you will stay in Chicago the night before our trip, the hotel will allow you to park your car for the next 12 days, and they will give you a ride back to the Hotel when we return. I would also advise that you stay the night of the 26th in Chicago as flying all the way from Athens to Chicago (with a stop in New York) and then attempting to drive to Jacksonville is dangerous and thus a bad idea, you will be EXHAUSTED.
I did a Google search for "Chicago Airport Park and Ride" and found this webpage:
http://www.parksleepfly.com/
Just ask us if you have any questions.
A word about getting to Chicago.
Dr. Stewart and Dr. Berg will be meeting you in the airport in Chicago on May 14th. We will not be meeting and organizing the ride from Jacksonville to Chicago. I would suggest two options for this end of the trip.
1. Organize a carpool from Jacksonville to Chicago and establish in advance where you are going to park unless someone will drive your group to the airport. The best advice for this option is to try and find a person willing to take you to and from the airport.
2. Get a hotel with "park and ride" service near the airport in Chicago. I will add a list of hotels and prices that I found doing a quick intenet search. With this option you will stay in Chicago the night before our trip, the hotel will allow you to park your car for the next 12 days, and they will give you a ride back to the Hotel when we return. I would also advise that you stay the night of the 26th in Chicago as flying all the way from Athens to Chicago (with a stop in New York) and then attempting to drive to Jacksonville is dangerous and thus a bad idea, you will be EXHAUSTED.
- Comfort Inn OHare\Rosemont\Des Plaines $129.00 one room/per night with parking for 13 days
- Radisson Hotel Chicago-OHare $ 98.00 "
- Holiday Inn Chicago O'Hare Area $ 89.00 "
- Country Inn & Suites OHare South $79.00 "
- Renaissance Chicago OHare Suites Hotel $109.00 "
I did a Google search for "Chicago Airport Park and Ride" and found this webpage:
http://www.parksleepfly.com/
Just ask us if you have any questions.
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Our Flights!
May 14
11:40 am Delta #6570 from Chicago (ORD) Arrive New York (JFK) 3:05 pm
4:25 Delta #72 JFK—Istanbul Arrive 9:55 am
May 26
11:10 am Delta #133 Athens---JFK Arrive2:55 pm
4:50 pm Delta #6595 JFK---ORD Arrive 7:11 pm
11:40 am Delta #6570 from Chicago (ORD) Arrive New York (JFK) 3:05 pm
4:25 Delta #72 JFK—Istanbul Arrive 9:55 am
May 26
11:10 am Delta #133 Athens---JFK Arrive2:55 pm
4:50 pm Delta #6595 JFK---ORD Arrive 7:11 pm
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Passport chat
In this post I will try and give you all the direction that you need to get your U.S. Passport, or renew you Passport.
Please get started on this process AS SOON AS POSSIBLE if you need a Passport or need to renew your Passport.
You CAN NOT travel to Turkey or Greece without a valid Passport.
I would think it would be an unforgivible loss to not go on the trip because you did not get this taken care of.
The US Department of State has an excellent web page that will take you through all the steps necessary to obtain or renew a Passport.
Follow this link to the webpage: http://travel.state.gov/passport/
Thursday, March 4, 2010
"Hard" deadline
Ok Troops, we have a deadline for payment that we would like you all to keep.
March 16th.
If you can pay for the trip by the 16th of March your life will be much easier.
Thanks!
March 16th.
If you can pay for the trip by the 16th of March your life will be much easier.
Thanks!
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
A great book to read over Spring Break
Istanbul
Memories and the City
Written by Orhan Pamuk
This book was recommended by our very own Dr. Hoff!
ABOUT THIS BOOK
A portrait, by turns intimate and panoramic, of one of the world’s great cities, by its foremost man of letters, author of the acclaimed novels Snow and My Name Is Red.
Blending reminiscence with history; family photographs with portraits of poets and pashas; art criticism, metaphysical musing, and, now and again, a fanciful tale, Orhan Pamuk invents an ingenious form to evoke his lifelong home, the city that forged his imagination. He begins with his childhood among the eccentric extended Pamuk family in the dusty, carpeted, and hermetically sealed apartment building they shared. In this place came his first intimations of the melancholy awareness that binds all residents of his city together: that of living in the seat of ruined imperial glories, in a country trying to become “modern” at the dizzying crossroads of East and West. This elegiac communal spirit overhangs Pamuk’s reflections as he introduces the writers and painters (among the latter, most particularly the German Antoine-Ignace Melling) through whose eyes he came to see Istanbul. Against a background of shattered monuments, neglected villas, ghostly backstreets, and, above all, the fabled waters of the Bosphorus, he presents the interplay of his budding sense of place with that of his predecessors. And he charts the evolution of a rich, sometimes macabre, imaginative life, which furnished a daydreaming boy refuge from family discord and inner turmoil, and which would continue to serve the famous writer he was to become. It was, and remains, a life fed by the changing microcosm of the apartment building and, even more, the beckoning kaleidoscope beyond its walls.
As much a portrait of the artist as a young man as it is an oneiric Joycean map of the city, Istanbul is a masterful evocation of its subject through the idiosyncrasies of direct experience as much as the power of myth--the dazzling book Pamuk was born to write.
(book review from the publisher Random House, Inc)
Memories and the City
Written by Orhan Pamuk
This book was recommended by our very own Dr. Hoff!
ABOUT THIS BOOK
A portrait, by turns intimate and panoramic, of one of the world’s great cities, by its foremost man of letters, author of the acclaimed novels Snow and My Name Is Red.
Blending reminiscence with history; family photographs with portraits of poets and pashas; art criticism, metaphysical musing, and, now and again, a fanciful tale, Orhan Pamuk invents an ingenious form to evoke his lifelong home, the city that forged his imagination. He begins with his childhood among the eccentric extended Pamuk family in the dusty, carpeted, and hermetically sealed apartment building they shared. In this place came his first intimations of the melancholy awareness that binds all residents of his city together: that of living in the seat of ruined imperial glories, in a country trying to become “modern” at the dizzying crossroads of East and West. This elegiac communal spirit overhangs Pamuk’s reflections as he introduces the writers and painters (among the latter, most particularly the German Antoine-Ignace Melling) through whose eyes he came to see Istanbul. Against a background of shattered monuments, neglected villas, ghostly backstreets, and, above all, the fabled waters of the Bosphorus, he presents the interplay of his budding sense of place with that of his predecessors. And he charts the evolution of a rich, sometimes macabre, imaginative life, which furnished a daydreaming boy refuge from family discord and inner turmoil, and which would continue to serve the famous writer he was to become. It was, and remains, a life fed by the changing microcosm of the apartment building and, even more, the beckoning kaleidoscope beyond its walls.
As much a portrait of the artist as a young man as it is an oneiric Joycean map of the city, Istanbul is a masterful evocation of its subject through the idiosyncrasies of direct experience as much as the power of myth--the dazzling book Pamuk was born to write.
(book review from the publisher Random House, Inc)
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