Day 4 - Delphi

Today we visited the city and temple of Delphi. It was an ancient city that thrived during the ancient Greek Empire. People would come from all over to seek an audience with the Oracle, a person who foretold people's futures. Visitors would bring treasures to pay homage to the Oracle and appease the God Apollo. Strangely enough, the Oracle only worked about 8 days a year. Since Delphi sits on two fault lines, it is believed gases released by earthquakes went directly into the Oracle's chamber, giving her hallucinations and basically making her high. After visiting the ruins and hearing Nikhil's presentation on the city, we went to the Delphi museum, where they have moved most of the recovered artifacts.

Delphi is located in the mountains overlooking a massive ravine. It took 3 1/2 hours for us to reach DelphI. On that bus ride, Derek and Sam made an incredible educational rap that everyone enjoyed. A good memory was at night. Everybody started panicking because they thought there was a crazy man downstairs (which was made up by Kamron). Overall today was a good day.

Here are some of the lyrics to the rap:

Derek and Sam, we are so cool
We help the community and go to school
We look to the future and stay. In our path
Every Tuesday we all study math

We say what we want as long as it's nice
As long as were smilin', that'll suffice
Jessica and Chianne are so kind
They stay alert and use their mind

We are doing laundry and packing as we fly to Rome tomorrow and then drive to Hadrian's Villa and then stay in Naples!

Sam Glotfelty and Cole Beairsto
9th Grade Tesseract Students