Athens: Days 11-14?

For some odd reason my computer decided to display my blogspt account in Greek (not what I had written but all the tabs and stuff, but oh well). Its quite fun.

Almost fell asleep in class on Monday until break when I could get a coke (which tastes much better than in the states). Later that day me and Marc went up to Likavittos, the highest point in Athens. The entire city (of 4 million people) looks so small from up there. Even the Acropolis looks completely different from there. What sucks though is that as we were about to get someone to take our picture at the top my batteries died. But I have faith we will make it back up top (with extra batteries next time) and see the sunset from there.

Gyros are becoming second nature for me now, but I'm worried I'm gonna end up spending more money than I want to. I still have to get gifts for everyone and myself of course not to mention all the trips I want to go on.

Tuesday brought Dina back to the school after she had had surgery. She's super nice and talked with us for about an hour. I think a lot of people felt better about all the poor communication at the school once they had talked to her. We learned that there is going to be a world athletic event at the Olympic stadium on the 2nd so we definitely have to see that. I got some cool movie posters in Greek too. I just love how the alphabet looks especially with our movies. Went to the Hill of the Muses again. That spot is turning into quite the popular spot among the students. But I think the main reason we went is because we were able to see a space shuttle lifting off from America. It passed into our view around 9:47 our time and we saw the little lights moving smoothly and quickly through the air. It was pretty neat I have to say.

Wednesday everyone went to the beach except me because I was in class. I knew how to get there but I didn't feel like going. Besides tehy went to the worst beach in Athens. Rocks, no sand, trashy water. So I feel better. I wandered around for a little while. Went back to the national gardens, Hadrian's Arch. I tried to get into Zeus' temple but if I wait and get a combo pack for the Acropolis then I can get in free. Some Australian girls helped me out with that. It was pretty cool. I love they way they talk.

One of our roommates is leaving this weekend and becasue we are going to be gone when he leaves, we threw a little gathering here. After a little while the party moved out to a club, but I decided to stay in. We've gone out to these two clubs every time we've gone out so I was just tired of it. I have to say I think I had a good time nonetheless. I had a good conversation with my friend, Rachel (the one who convinced me to go on the trip in the first place). It was good.

I think classes aren't going to be as bad as I thought before so I'm going to try and take it easy. We have an excursion this weekend to Delphi, Olympia, Mycenae, and another place with a bunch of stops elsewhere. Its going to be all the Odyssey and CUny students so about 20 of us. Its going to be crazy and I feel there may be more drama, but as for myself I'm just gonna chill.

We went to the Banaki Museum today for our Art and Archeology class. It was actually pretty cool except that I started getting lightheaded while we were there. I didn't know why. I was drinking plenty of water and had been fine the past couple hours, but whatever. Talked to my cuz for a few minutes. She's in Spain at the moment and I know she'll have a wonderful time.

And now here I am at my computer. I'm gonna go print some stuff, buy some postcards and do whatever I want now. So I'll post again after I get back. And I'll try to put up more pics soon.