Greece
This past summer I went on a "Mercer on Mission" to Greece. It was one of the most enthralling and eye-opening experiences of my life, while also being able to see all of the beautiful sights that Greece has to offer. In Greece, a group of fourteen of us including two professors worked with the local "Romani"(gypsy) population in Examilia, a small town close to Corinth. Here, we worked to help establish a school for the Romani children to help them realize there are more opportunities than the life of crime that many of their population resort to. While I could talk forever about my experiences with the Romani or the sites and culture I saw of Greece, one environmental issue that I saw throughout Examilia and actually all of Greece is their trash problem. Many of the towns of Greece do not have proper sewage systems...meaning no flushing of toilet paper. Whenever we would travel to places to visit, we'd almost always pass a huge, landfill-like mound of garbage along the way that mine as well had been a giant dead skunk the way it smelled. After doing some simple searches on the internet, I found out that trash in Greece is becoming a major environmental concern and one I am very interested to learn about.
Here's a link to an article about the issue: http://world.time.com/2013/05/28/greeces-garbage-crisis-a-stinky-metaphor-for-a-country-in-the-dumps/
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