Agapios Papaioannou
Career forum puts students to work
I’ve been waking up to go to college for four years now, but this morning was different. I had hung out the clothes I would wear today at school. No, it wasn’t the jeans and tees I’ve been wearing ever since I can remember. It was a suit.
I left my house in a hurry and decided to get a cab. No way I was riding the metro in these clothes. The driver asked me what subject I teach at the college.
Things got a lot better when I finally made it outside the College gym. I joined a group of classmates and we started making fun of each others’ clothes. I felt like an animal rejoining its species in… Continue reading
Massage your babies
Over the last few years, more and more Greek parents have been enrolling in classes on how to massage their infant babies in health centers and become familiar with benefits that they and their babies enjoy from it.
A research study on massage by Dr. Herminial L. Cifra and Dr. Melanie N. Sancho for the University of Philippines has revealed its positive effects on behavior, weight gain, arterial oxygen tension, pain reduction, stress hormones and immunoglobulin, asthma and labor.
“Massage improves circulation, respiration, digestion and enhances babies’ neurological development,” said Thalia Panagidou, a qualified infant massage teacher. “Moreover, it is recognized by doctors to be the only drug-free treatment for colic.”
Massage may also have emotional benefits, giving babies a… Continue reading
For Cypriots, going home stirs painful memories
It’s been 30 years now, but Eleni Theodorou, 65-years-old, can still hear the war siren which woke her up on July 20, 1974. At first she thought she was having a bad dream, but a few seconds later she felt her husband jumping out of bed and turning the radio on. She screamed as she listened to the news and ran to wake her kids up. An hour later, the Theodorou family got in the car and drove away from their house.
“I was looking back at my neighborhood, my well-locked house, which seemed mad at me for leaving it behind,” said Theodorou. “A scream inside kept saying ‘I’ll be back.’”
It was Easter of 2003 when Greek-Cypriots and Turkish-Cypriots… Continue reading
ACG Celebrates Sports and Friendship
The 2nd International Sports Festival returns to Aghia Paraskevi Campus on March 20, to celebrate sports and friendship between four countries.
Organized by the Office of Athletics, the three-day festival is one of the biggest athletic events of the academic year. More than 500 students of both sexes will compete in basketball, table tennis, soccer, swimming, tennis and volleyball. The participating schools are the American Universities of Sharjah, Cairo and Beirut, the American Colleges of Thessaloniki and Lebanon and the University of Balamand.
Athletes will not only have the opportunity to experience sports competition at an international level, but to build new friendships as well. “The resulting social interaction will make the festival more pleasurable for everyone,” said Arthur Christopher,… Continue reading