Hello again readers,
I'm so short on sleep. We've been so excited to be here the last week that we just keep telling ourselves that there is so much to see and do, we will sleep when we're dead.
Apparently you die when you don't get enough sleep. So, whoever thought of that saying wasn't really thinking clearly.
I was asleep by 10:30 last night. That hasn't happened since I was like, 10.
Today was the first real day of classes.
I say "real" because I'm not counting last week's classes. I woke up 20 minutes before we had to be in class last week, (forgot to brush my hair) not the greatest start.
However, today, the first "real" day I had my clothes picked out and my homework done :)
Walking on the first day school with a backpack and new socks: one of life's simplest joys.
Just maginified by 100 when in Greece.
Classes were great. I'm reading the Iliad (not as hard as it sounds), and learning the Greek language.
Greek school. Yah. Just like My Big Fat Greek Wedding.
I just keep playing that scene in my head where Toula learns all the words in Greek school when all her friends are in Brownies. That's my life right now.
After classes, we had a Greek travel agent come to meet with our class to talk about helping us plan any excursions we want to do separate. I laughed to myself again in class, just like the aunt in My Big Fat Greek Wedding, who is a travel agent. Same big read lips, same accent. Love it.
We all decided that we want to do Santorini! (Yes, like Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants. Kill me for having all of my cultural knowledge come from movies). I'm sooooo pumped. In two weeks our whole group is going!
Tonight, I decided I wanted to go for another run.
Being right next to the Olympic Stadium makes me want to run all the time.
Good motivation.
I started out in the National Garden, which I've walked through before.
And it didn't seem that big.
But it is.
So I've learned.
It's like Narnia.
Except maybe bigger.
I found the Greek Guards outside a palace (I'm not sure what it is exactly yet), who march with big kicks, and wear khaki kilts and berets carrying long poles (or guns, not sure what those are either).
I also found the turtle pond, a bridge and big fountain.
A little lost, a little scared, a little excited that there's so much here.
Love and Peace from lovely Greece,
Kirsten
I'm so short on sleep. We've been so excited to be here the last week that we just keep telling ourselves that there is so much to see and do, we will sleep when we're dead.
Apparently you die when you don't get enough sleep. So, whoever thought of that saying wasn't really thinking clearly.
I was asleep by 10:30 last night. That hasn't happened since I was like, 10.
Today was the first real day of classes.
I say "real" because I'm not counting last week's classes. I woke up 20 minutes before we had to be in class last week, (forgot to brush my hair) not the greatest start.
However, today, the first "real" day I had my clothes picked out and my homework done :)
Walking on the first day school with a backpack and new socks: one of life's simplest joys.
Just maginified by 100 when in Greece.
Classes were great. I'm reading the Iliad (not as hard as it sounds), and learning the Greek language.
Greek school. Yah. Just like My Big Fat Greek Wedding.
I just keep playing that scene in my head where Toula learns all the words in Greek school when all her friends are in Brownies. That's my life right now.
After classes, we had a Greek travel agent come to meet with our class to talk about helping us plan any excursions we want to do separate. I laughed to myself again in class, just like the aunt in My Big Fat Greek Wedding, who is a travel agent. Same big read lips, same accent. Love it.
We all decided that we want to do Santorini! (Yes, like Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants. Kill me for having all of my cultural knowledge come from movies). I'm sooooo pumped. In two weeks our whole group is going!
Tonight, I decided I wanted to go for another run.
Being right next to the Olympic Stadium makes me want to run all the time.
Good motivation.
I started out in the National Garden, which I've walked through before.
And it didn't seem that big.
But it is.
So I've learned.
It's like Narnia.
Except maybe bigger.
I found the Greek Guards outside a palace (I'm not sure what it is exactly yet), who march with big kicks, and wear khaki kilts and berets carrying long poles (or guns, not sure what those are either).
I also found the turtle pond, a bridge and big fountain.
A little lost, a little scared, a little excited that there's so much here.
Love and Peace from lovely Greece,
Kirsten
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