As I sit in bed right now unable to sleep at 3am I am a little overwhelmed with all of the changes in the last 24-48 hours. My body doesn't know what is day and what is night... can't decide if sleep won't come because of that or because I am terrified of getting eaten alive by buggies. We all know my history with bugs and the windows here are a little on the sketchy side if I do say so myself. Other than my inability to decide when to sleep I think that I am going to love it here. So far it has seemed very easy to get around here, although I do feel slightly arrogant and helpless not knowing really any Greek. Hopefully we'll have some crash course lessons on useful phrases soon, because all I know right now is vocab that I will not be using on the reg. Although.... one of my roommates and I were going through a pile of stuff left by other fellows and found an old quiz. Surprisingly I could translate the whole first sentence! SCORE! Rosetta stone helped with something! The house is full of ancient books, papers, and little surprises. Its truly like a garage sale in here! Good for the digging.
The signs here are very overwhelming. So many letters that I don't know how to pronounce and some of their words seem to stretch on FOREVER! At dinner we ordered fried zucchini balls (which were bangin) and the translation in Greek literally had a name that contained 20 characters. That's where I draw the line... Wine is super cheap here. You can get a giant pitcher (or at least giant for 2 people to polish off) for 7 Euro. I have a feeling dinners will usually be communal which is fantastic. This allows more tastings of random stuff! Feta Feta Feta. yum yum is all I have to say.
Between unpacking and trying to figure out if I was tired and/or hungry I managed to forget things when we were going out...approximately 12 times. Let's be honest, I usually end up running back inside to get something at home, but today was pretttttty bad. I took money out to bring, left it on the bed. I wanted to bring my backpack to the store, after already running back into my room for water and sunglasses, I succeeded in leaving without my bag. Not making a great first impression concerning organization.... anyhow, this is getting very random and doesn't contain too much exciting info, so I am going to wrap it up. Adio.
-p.s.- My chair on the airplane was broken and did not recline. I very much enjoy the more than vertical seats of the airplane for a good 10 hours... U.S. Airways apparently is NOT the way to go, broken seats, no personal TV's, mean flight attendant, the worksssss
