Time had stood still

“It’s funny how the colours of the real world only seem really real when you viddy them on the screen” – Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange Google all the holiday retreats in Greece, all the islands, the beaches, the hotels and resorts! On the photos, they all look mesmerisingly beautiful, unreal even. “It’s too good…

The familiar vs the unkown

I want to compare ‘The Seen and The Unknown’ in retrospect to my observations of the places I have been to. In other words; Athens and the others, in my observations. The odd, the frequent, and the familiar! It may sound peculiar but most cultures in the world, are in fact, very similar. We, as…

Hello world!

In lieu of the more commonplace soubriquet, permit me then, to introduce myself;       I am Omer Magill, born in Glasgow, Scotland, living in Izmir, Turkey. I am an English teacher.   I will be in Athens for my EVS for 2 months. It has only been a week so far, and I’m…