It's Already Thursday?!

Wow! It is already Thursday! This week is flying by so quickly. After my weekend in Meteora, I came back to a full week of classes and activities! I'll fill you in a bit on what this week has been like here in Athens for me!

Monday morning, bright and early, I started my day going to the hospital. Don't worry! I am not sick or anything, but we all had to take a TB test and get a chest x-ray in order to extend our visas to last the whole duration of the semester. Quite annoying, really, but an experience for sure! A group of about 25 of us met up at the hospital, got a shot and a huge circle drawn on our arms, and waited anxiously for our x-rays. The x-rays were super awkward and the hospital was a bit sketchy, but we survived! Then, I headed to class, late because of the hospital visit, and carried on a normal Monday of classes. That evening, I had my first cooking class! A chef, Stavros, comes to our school and teaches about 5 cooking classes each semesterfor students interested, so I signed up! It was very fun! We made tzatziki, a fun Greek dip made with greek yogurt, cucumbers, and garlic. We also made a fun lentil soup, which I actually ate, vegetables and all! After that, we made our main course, some rice with fun beef somethings on it. It was very good and fun to hang out with about 10 of my fellow students, including my roommates, and cram in a kitchen playing with knives and food! Then, we all sat down and had a nice group meal and conversation. I'm looking forward to my next classes later on this semester.

Tuesday, my archaeology class met on the Acropolis! We were investigating the evidence for Mycenaean inhabitation on the Acropolis. We wandered around the Acropolis as well at many cave sanctuaries, which I had never seen/noticed before! Afterwards, I had some classes and a town meeting. Town meetings here are where we meet up with all the other students in the program and discuss how things are going, etc. We also discussed our upcoming trip to Crete and got some information on how that will be laid out! Exciting!

Wednesday started off with another hospital visit! I had to get my TB test checked and pick up my x-ray. Now I have a huge x-ray just sitting in my room, how helpful?! Afterwards, I had classes and some crazy conversation in my ancient Greek class! We actually may travel to Pylos with my ancient Greek class for a weekend in order to see what we are reading about in Thucydides! Yesterday evening, we had a nice garden party at our president's house, which had yummy food! It was fun to visit with people and not be thinking about school, etc.

Today, my day started with my archaeology class and we met in the Agora. It was crazy to be back there just observing and learning after spending so much time there last summer! I had another modern greek test and am relaxing for the rest of the day! Our Greek dancing class got cancelled again (after being postponed due to rain) so I think I will go to a concert tonight and enjoy the town a bit. We actually have class tomorrow to make up for some sessions we will be missing due to trips this semester.

I guess I should get some reading done!

Love you all.