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Student Views: July 2009 International Archaeology Seminar for Students

Germany
The dialogue with the great professors from Austria and Palestine really enlarged my horizons. Especially for students of archaeology it is important, to travel and to discuss about the topics with other persons…I learned that the Turkish people are very polite and friendly and in some students I found friends for, I hope so, a long time. Turkey is a great scenery for such a project.
Marie Lemser
                                                                                                              Leipzig University, Germany

The international atmosphere of the camp, produced by students coming from all over the world, really provided me with a wider view of the world and gave me an insight on some issues I was not aware of before...I am therefore not only grateful for having been able to enlarge my knowledge about the antiquities and to widen my scientific perspective but also for having been given the chance to meet people, wonderful people that probably I would not have met otherwise. It was a terrific, fascinating and completely precious experience.
                                                                                                             Benjamin Wieland
                                                                                                             Leipzig University, Germany

Palestine
This camp was one of the best things that happened in my life. And to have the chance to be taught by amazing and wonderful professors is really an honor for me. I was really touched by the city Ephesus. Now am so eager to know more about the past and to try to make the past alive.
                                                                                                             Tana Nabeel Ismael Al-Araj
                                                                                                             Birzeit University, Palestine

This seminar was very fantastic thing for me in personal and academic life.  In personal: it’s lovely to travel and meet new people from different countries with different cultures. And in academic: it’s a good thing to meet professors who worked in Ephesos for a long time ago and walk with them in this huge fantastic site.
                                                                                                             Hussein T. Madina
                                                                                                             Birzeit University, Palestine
Slovakia
The well prepared and rich program has certainly influenced our future professional career (in the way of thinking about some aspects) and gave us new perspective, because here we can see that so much energy, effort and really hard work could bring lot of interesting, fascinating results.
                                                                                                             Andrea Durianova
University of Trnava, Slovakia

As we use to say in my country it is better once to see than 100 times to hear.
                                                                                                             Ivana Kvetanova
                                                                                                             Brataslava University, Slovakia
Turkey
Although I usually come to Ephesus I learned a lot of things from the teachers who have worked in Ephesus during a long time…Because by this program I recognized much better the cultural heritage we have in Ephesus and Anatolia.
                                                                                                             Yasar Yildirim
                                                                                                              Dokuz Eylul University, Turkey

2009 Team • Forest Area Adjacent to Pollio Aqueducts, Ephesos
Werner Jobst, Jana Nabeel, Marie Lemser, Hilke Thur, Benjamin Wieland, Gilbert Wiplinger, Sinan Yılmaz,
Mahmoud Hawari, Ivana Kvetanova, Hussein Tahseen Madina, Andrea Durianova, Ruveyda Ozkan, Keffie
(visiting scholar), Deniz Akyol, Pinar Durgan, (Missing: Aysegul Istankoylu photographer, Faculty: Anton
Bammer, Ulrike Muss)

Stadium of Aphrodisias, Prof. Hilke Thur, lecturer