Traveling to Greece

[DanM]

Here's a trick: go to the library and get a book with many, many photos of pieces of art. In Dutch we use the expression "coffee table book": a book that is not just for reading, but for display when visitors arrive, so that -while you are making coffee- they have something pleasant to look at. Make sure that this book is always somewhere in the room, and no doubt your parents will -when they have nothing to do- leaf through it and be impressed. (That's how I made my father pay a trip to Rome, back in 1984.) :wink:

I moddified that plan because 1. I don't make coffee for my parents 2. My coffee table is in my living room, when everyone is usally in my family room. so here's my modified plan
I'll find a good book about ancient greece at my library, making sure It has a lot of good pictures. THen I'll read it a little, and leave it laying around on my couch, because I noticed that my dad will read something of interest to him, when it is laying on the couch. It happened with my visitors guide to the ancient world. ANd I'll learn greek by taking rosetta stone levels 1 & 2, then I'll buy a greek dictionary, and read greek stuff, and when I find a word I don't understand, I look it up.