A lovely Friday afternoon here in Athens! It has been a great week, but has, once again, flown by. Sleepy, I had classes Monday and had to work on a big paper, and as I was locking myself in the library, my roomie called telling me I was missing Cooking Class!!! Quickly I ran over to the kitchen! :) We made some crazy bean soup I loved, some weird eggplant dip i didn't like tooooo much, stellar roasted potatoes, and lemon chicken! Randomly, we had the same dish (not as good) for lunch the next day in our dining hall! Funny. But that was fun and afterwards I went back and kind of worked on my paper, and kind of chatted... the usual!
Tuesday was fun, beginning with a visit to the Agora for class. Embarrassingly enough, my roommate and I got lost-ish. We popped out of the National Gardens at a weird place and got turned around, so we took a 'short cut.' Anyway, I should know the Agora like whoa, seeing as though I dug there last summer, but anyway, we wandered through the maze of Plaka, which was super beautiful and fun, and were only a few minutes late to class.... After classes that day, I went back close to the Agora to the Acropolis Museum to meet up with a few people I met digging last summer! We wandered the first floor of the museum a minute and then went to the cafe, splitting some yummy dishes. We had some cheese w/ honey on it and some little melon balls, then some custard pie thing, Galactoboureko. So good!!! I got a piece from my local bakery too for my apartment when I'm craving sweets! Anyway, it was great to see them again and catch up some. I think later in the semester I'm going to go with them and visit another friend from the dig! Tuesday night was full of working on that paper! I finished the writing part, and was going to add photos in the morning. I hung out with my friend after we left the library a bit, complete with Fanta Blue and oregano potato chips. Yep, good night.
Wednesday, I got up and finished my paper. Our Byzantine class met at the Benaki Museum Photographic Archive! So cool!!!!! We saw photos from like 1870 and super old from Athens! It was so cool to see what some of the monuments and buildings looked like even 50 or 100 years ago. The city was so different!!!! We've been talking in our class lately about how Byzantine and Medieval monuments of the city were disregarded and often destroyed in the frenzy to get back to the Classical/Ancient Athens. It's kind of crazy! But the archive was really great to see. There were even pics from Meteora! That night, we also had a lecture about Crete. It was talking about some recent/ongoing excavations on East Crete. It was about the newer types of investigation and research methods on site, analyzing different types of food and purposes for rooms. It was cooler than I can explain!
Thursday rolled around and it was a pretty typical day school-wise. We met in the classroom for my Archaeology class, which was different, and we had a history lesson to begin our next section of classes. Thursday night a few of my friends and I ate Mac and Cheese (thanks to Stephanie for giving it to me!!), pigs in a blanket, pizza, and tangerine juice! So fun! They also surprised me with a super yummy piece of cake for a belated birthday gift! It was so cute and sweet! :) They're great! We also had a little ice cream cone frozen and dipped in white chocolate! yum.
This morning (Friday), we got up and went to extend our visas, since they expire before we leave Athens! So lame, but it was an interesting experience. The area was similar to the DMV. The building was insane and hectic, but we got pushed to a certain person to help us that knew our school, etc. and we got it taken care of. I had a scare when the lady was not going to take my forms since I had been to Serbia since the photocopy of my passport had been taken. But thankfully, I just had to run down the street and make a photocopy! :) After that, we explored around Syntagma and found a computer store for my friends to try to fix their computers. It had a sweet school supply store in it! It was so fun! I loved it! After that, we metro'd to Maroussi to go to the Dell store, only to find that we couldn't get help there, so we hopped over to a little pastry shop and got cookies and ice cream! We then bussed back for lunch and such.
As far as random thoughts go, I've had the urge to start playing guitar again... we'll see how my wrist holds up when I get home, but I think I'm going to play again. And I think I may want to start drawing again... just for fun. I'm no good, but I kind of enjoy it. Maybe!
Off to organize things for my midterms next week!!!
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