3/21/2010


Here the picture of my new tattoo as promised. I adore it. Only 100 euro which suprises me. Sorry mom... I did not want you to see it until you had to but...
The picture on the left was taken on a walk way at my school. Beautiful right? The ocean and mountains are in the distance. This overlooks Thessaloniki.

So the past few weeks? Crazy. I leave for Italy on Thursday night. Can't wait!! Egypt after.. I was looking up the dangerous animals in Egypt.... Eeek Camel spiders, scorpions, and snakes galore! the whole giant spiders thing makes me a little nervous... I may have some troubles sleeping. However, I am ecstatic about riding a camel at the pyramids though :) With the pyramids of Giza and the colleseum I will be visiting 2 of the 7 wonders of the world over spring break! Not to brag or anything... :)
This Wednesday was St Patricks Day. Somehow I lucked out and had all my classes randomly cancelled on Thursday and I never have class on Fridays so Wednesday I went out to celebrate. There was an irish bar here that threw a huge celebration and basically every study abroad study from ACT went. It was a BLAST! I got to talk to friends that I rarely see at school, which was nice. There was lots of free shots and hats, and my friend Melissa was even given a really nice Jameson glass!! Overall, it was a good night, even though the majority of us had a bit too much to drink. We brought a few of our greek friends with us to the bar. They had never heard of the holiday before. As we tried to explain it, we realized we didn't really know much about hte holiday, just that we use it as a reason to drink in America and wear green. They kind of thought we were crazy! haha.
Friday night I went to my first party at the local university with several of my greek friends. They all attend that university. Now that is an interesting experience. The campus is covered with graffiti, and cops are not allowed on campus, so as you can imagine there are all types of illegal things going on out in the open... Very interesting nonetheless, I would not mind going to one again!

Last night i went to something called a Bit Bazaar, which looked like I had walked into The sisterhood of the traveling pants. There were dozens and dozens of chairs and tables set up outside and in restaurant/bars where people just drink and eat a little. Conversing. Ouzo is very common at these gatherings, which I think is a very gross, strong white drink that tastes like black licorice. I chose to remain sober.

Tuesday I have my first midterm. I'm a little nervous, but glad that I am getting one done before we leave for Spring Break for two and a half weeks. Recently I have been learning many phrases from Greek friends:

endaksee=ok ya sou= hello ya mas= cheers malaka= asshole

to ksero= I know poso kanis? = How much? Pos = what

te kanis? How are you kala, esi? = good, you? kalimera= good morning

adio= goodbye

and many many more!! It is very nice knowing greek people because I can ask them anything!! I only wrote them down here because I would like to be able to remenber them later.

The weather is gorgeous here. This week I sat out on my friends balcony for 45 minutes because it is just getting so nice. 70 degrees tomorrow!! :) Although I would like to write more, I really need to start studying for my Psychology exam.... Hopefully I'll get a chance to write again before I leave this week!

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