Eenuh
07-11-2007, 02:22 PM
Okay, so I don't really know what to do. Today, I got asked by my Art History teacher if maybe I wanted to go to Turkey this summer to one of the archaeological sites to go draw stuff they dig up and whatever.
Sounds cool right?
Thing is, it'd be the entire month of August (so four weeks), while working 5 days per week. Unpaid work. Your trip to there gets paid for, and I think most of your stay too (which I doubt would be in a hotel), but I'm pretty sure expenses for food and any other things (like trips to see/do stuff) would have to be paid for by me.
A month is long. And since it's summer, it'll be bloody hot there. I can't stand the heat very well... At 25°C I'm already melting, and I'm pretty sure it gets warmer than 40°C there during the day. =/
Also, it would mean any other trips I would have planned (Spain or the States, don't know yet), probably wouldn't happen. And once you say yes to this project, you can't go back anymore; you have to go. I also pretty much wouldn't be able to do a summer job, meaning I'd have no money. Andddd I also would have to pass all my exams in June, cause the resits for those exams are in August as well...
Last bad part, I'd be one of the only people from my school going. Only me and some other guy I don't know got asked to go so far, so I basically would be sitting there all alone for a month. I'm totally not a social type so making friends, getting to know people and going out with them (not even sure there's many options there for stuff to do) isn't my kind of thing.
Guhhhh, I don't know if I should do this or not. And the teacher already wants to know my answer tomorrow, cause then they can start with the administration part of it. And of course now my parents are in Italy, so I can't even ask them what to do (though I bet they would push me to just do it).
This seems like a nice opportunity, but there's so many negative points connected to it that sort of seem to outweigh the positive point.
I'm interested in the history of art (this is in Sagalassos, and it has remnants of an old Roman city), but it's not something I would want to do in the future, so it's a bit useless to put on my CV even. Plus as far as I understood from the teacher, we wouldn't even be on the site itself, but somewhere else to draw the stuff. =/
Any ideas or opinions or whatever? I'm kinda clueless right now as to what to do. >.<;
Sounds cool right?
Thing is, it'd be the entire month of August (so four weeks), while working 5 days per week. Unpaid work. Your trip to there gets paid for, and I think most of your stay too (which I doubt would be in a hotel), but I'm pretty sure expenses for food and any other things (like trips to see/do stuff) would have to be paid for by me.
A month is long. And since it's summer, it'll be bloody hot there. I can't stand the heat very well... At 25°C I'm already melting, and I'm pretty sure it gets warmer than 40°C there during the day. =/
Also, it would mean any other trips I would have planned (Spain or the States, don't know yet), probably wouldn't happen. And once you say yes to this project, you can't go back anymore; you have to go. I also pretty much wouldn't be able to do a summer job, meaning I'd have no money. Andddd I also would have to pass all my exams in June, cause the resits for those exams are in August as well...
Last bad part, I'd be one of the only people from my school going. Only me and some other guy I don't know got asked to go so far, so I basically would be sitting there all alone for a month. I'm totally not a social type so making friends, getting to know people and going out with them (not even sure there's many options there for stuff to do) isn't my kind of thing.
Guhhhh, I don't know if I should do this or not. And the teacher already wants to know my answer tomorrow, cause then they can start with the administration part of it. And of course now my parents are in Italy, so I can't even ask them what to do (though I bet they would push me to just do it).
This seems like a nice opportunity, but there's so many negative points connected to it that sort of seem to outweigh the positive point.
I'm interested in the history of art (this is in Sagalassos, and it has remnants of an old Roman city), but it's not something I would want to do in the future, so it's a bit useless to put on my CV even. Plus as far as I understood from the teacher, we wouldn't even be on the site itself, but somewhere else to draw the stuff. =/
Any ideas or opinions or whatever? I'm kinda clueless right now as to what to do. >.<;