Cultural Arts & Heritage Internship

Hi. My name is David Rocha, I was a history major in college. I came to Athens after an inquiry. So, what I did as an intern was- as you can see- mostly marble sculpting. I was to learn a bit about Heraldry and calligraphy. I helped to restore a bit of a church. I learnt how to do mosaics. The reason I chose this internship was because I wanted to get some sort of more experience. The reason I decided to do it was to learn more about what I like to do. Also to meet other people and make friends kind of influenced my decision. As for tourism, it was really cool going to different museums. Just because, before I came to Athens as an intern, I loved to visit museums and look at sculptures and paintings and such. And now whenever I go I can look more closely at them to see things like individual lights, how figures are carved and for things like paintings and it really changes how you see art once you intern as an art student. Once you’ve put effort in skill you can actually look at artwork in a museum and think “I don’t know who that artist is but he had really extraordinary skills”. Athens is nice because, if you want to be a tourist and see cool things you don’t really have to leave the city because they have like everything here. There’s the Archaeological Museum, they have actual ruins, they’ve the Parthenon, they have a museum for everything.

Hi, I am Oana, I go to Trinity College and I live in Dublin, Ireland. I chose this internship because I wanted to further my knowledge of art and artistry. I feel it has really helped me. Athens itself is a beautiful city. The whole experience has been lovely. The people are lovely. The roommates have been great. The accommodation was very well set up. The whole Cerca Abroad team was good to help us. Any problem I’ve ever had they responded in a matter of minutes. The whole experience was just amazing in itself. I would recommend it to anyone and everyone else.