March 27

I got into trouble for the first time today. Oops. We were walking by Parliament and there were hundreds of pigeons surrounding this man.  He came up to us and offered bird seed and everyone said no…except me and another girl.  Pigeons came swarming and landed all over us. When they flew away the man handed us a Polaroid picture of us and said “5 Euro.” Problem was, we didn’t have any Euro yet. We tried to tell him and he didn’t understand and thought we were trying to bargain and lowered it to 3 Euro. Eventually we had to just walk away and leave him yelling at us, and our instructor/guide was not happy with us. Oops. Well back to the day, we woke up this morning and walked about 30 minutes to the University (except it took more like 45-55 minutes due to Aphrodite stopping to talk every half block). There we had breakfast, which was chocolate filled croissants, fruit, some type of cookie, chocolate cake, and these sandwiches (cheese, some sort of lunch meat, and butter spread). It was pretty good except I am not used to spreading butter on my sandwiches.  We then had our first small lesson on Greek phrases that we need to know and other information about traveling and such.  We had pizza for lunch which was huge and covered with mushrooms, peppers, olives, onions, pepperoni, and some other meat. It was a good pizza but different than what I am used to.  We each got our stipend, 240 Euro for 20 days of food. I just woke up from my afternoon nap. Places here close at 2pm and open again later at like 5pm, and people go home and rest during those hours. In a half hour we will be going to the market and learning about how to shop well and what foods we can eat and what to stay away from. 

Well, just got back from the market. Everything was in Greek so it was challenge to even distinguish the difference between laundry detergent and softener (still not sure we got the right one). We ended up getting just food for lunch and dinner. Looks like we will be having pizza, fish sticks, and pasta every night this week. And peanut butter, nutella and banana sandwiches for lunch. Haha. It will be a learning experience, right?

Just finishing up my evening now. Lauren and I walked around town for a little while just looking around. Then we came back and I spent some quality time with Brenna (roommate). We ate warheads and played cards with these 3d glasses. Which reminds me, the glasses have one eye blue and the other red, and when you take them off...it switches. Like your eyesight is still colored weird but the eye that had the blue lens sees red and vice versa for the other eye. Crazy. Now I am ready for bed and to start the day tomorrow.