16-year-old Nitya Das, a grade-11 student and a classical
Indian dancer, will host this 6th episode of the Road
Scholars series. Nitya decides to travel all the way
to Greece and Turkey, hoping to study Classical Civilization
right where it all happened in ancient times. She also
hopes to make a wish in the oracles tunnel at the Temple
of Apollo.
Nitya starts out feeling unsure whether she can manage.
Then she learns that she can manage a lot of things,
which is most surprising to herself. She manages to
bear her fear about being away from her parents and
her spoiled guinea pig for a whole month, even though
on the trip she still wakes up from sleep and screams
for mother.
She manages to stay out all night and have fun shopping
and bar hopping, even though she still thinks people
should go to bed early. She manages to appreciate the
nude statues in the National Archaeological Museum in
Athens, which she videotapes for us to see. She also
manages to bare all in the Turkish bath and go naked
with her teachers and all her friends, which she will
not videotape for us to see.
