EDIT: GUYS I FIXED MY LINK hopefully. Aghh I kept waking up in the middle of the night! City traffic is the worst when you are used to zero cars going by ever. Also sometimes Greek people play very loud music from their balconies or ride around on scooters and shout at each other.

We went to an open-air market today! So instead of having no food at all, I now have…two tomatoes and some fruit. Which is okay until I get to the grocery store, I can keep living off my roommates’ bread and Nutella.
The market was so coooollll! We bought things by pointing and holding up fingers and probably letting the stall owners overcharge us for everything. Though there was one guy who got really excited when he heard us speaking English and even MORE excited when we told him one of us was from New Jersey because he recognized it. The he said it was his birthday and gave us all free pears and apples and it was generally fun times.

I had my first day at the college, we learned a few words in Greek and got talks from the nurse and the class roster lady. We get to take two classes, plus the mandatory Greek Language and Greek Culture classes and oral language lab. I’m taking a classical art class and some sort of psych course, I find out which tomorrow.

Thennnn we walked around and looked in some shops, got milkshakes at a McDonald’s, took naps, made pasta. Pretty boring day. But here, have a list anyway!

Some Rules of Greece:

*TOILET PAPER IS NOT ALLOWED IN THE TOILET. Apparently it makes the plumbing blow up or something, which is a bit of a design flaw, in my opinion.

*Crossing the street is always terrifying. There’s no right-of-way for pedestrians and Stop signs are more like slow-down-and-maybe-beep signs. We frequently have to break into a run halfway across the street to avoid being killed by busses.

*NO PEANUT BUTTER ANYWHERE. No pretzels either, just weird sesame bread hoops. Also no tea and not much chocolate. And the grocery store is way expensive compared to the open-air markets.


*If you own a store, you can open it whenever you feel like it, close it in the middle of the day to take a nap, and then maybe open it or maybe just call it a day and go home. Seriously, the hours are so weird that I’ve been stuck with no phone since I got here because we keep missing the store when it’s open. But then there are also places that open till like 3am, it is weird.

*Greek music videos are on a lot of acid.

Oh I took some pictures today! There’s my room in the apartment and the market and some random streets. Tomorrow we go see the ACROPOLIS so I’ll take plenty more then ☺