I'M GOING TO SEE PLACIDO DOMINGO IN CONCERT TOMORROW NIGHT AT THE ACROPOLIS!!!!!!!!!!!

Today has been incredibly exhausting. We had to get up "early" this morning to go register at the American Embassy. Sarah and left early to buy fruit for breakfast at the local market and then we met Dina at school at 10 and walked up to Syntagma Square to take the Metro which was pretty cool, but basically your standard subway system, just in Greek. It took about 5 minutes to register at the Embassy which hardly seemed worth the walk and the 1.40E it cost to get there when you can do the entire process online. But it was still kind of cool to be back on US soil for that short amount of time. We got done at about 11 so I went with Dina to pay my housing fee and then walked back to the apartment and took a short nap. I walked up to the post office at about 12:40 with Sarah and we bought stamps and mailed our postcards before I had to be back at school for class. My Olympics through Literature class consists of our professor lecturing from her desk about 2 feet in front of me and Laura while we take copious notes about Greek history. The information is actually really interesting, its making me think about changing my major to History/English with a concentration on the classical period, but then again, pretty much everything I study makes me want to change my major. I still really want to come here for grad school, UINDY's program is comparative lit so I could focus on Greek and English literature at the same time. She let us out of class early and I came back to the apartment and slept until about quarter of 4. We were supposed to meet Dina again at 4:30 to go to the grocery store but Laura and I walked over early and went to the computer lab. It ended up being 5:20 before we left so we spent about half an hour talking to some of the people from the other group who were in the lab. The walk to the grocery store took about 15 minutes and was uphill all the way. There were police carrying machine guns everywhere so there must have been something important happening around Syntagma because they were there yesterday too. We shopped for about half an hour, I bought cherry cheesecake type yogurt stuff, bread, cheese, pouches of pasta meals, and weird laundry detergent tablets that have directions in French-not Greek or English-so we don't exactly know how to use them. We came back to the apartment and dropped off our groceries and then Laura, Stephanie, and I walked up to the Odeon of Herodes Atticus at the Acropolis and bought our tickets for tomorrow night's concert, they were only 35E with our 50% student discount. I'll finish up later, Sarah's having difficulty operating the washing machine. ~Rachel