Thursday, July 06, 2006

Last night was our friend Chris's last night in Athens so we got dressed up and climbed Lykavitos Hill to eat dinner and watch the sunset-it has the best view in Athens.  Laura, Maren, and I wore the dresses we bought in Plaka which was really cool, we were slightly over dressed for the occassion, but it was fun.  Dinner was incredible, as was the view from the restaurant; you can see the entire city, which is a lot larger than most people assume. 

We walked all the way down the hill after dinner b/c we couldn't get taxis at the top, and then rode back to Syntagma before getting changed at the apartment and heading down the street to Christo's to meet some other people and watch the game.  France and Portugal were playing and there was a pretty good crowd assembled.  It felt very European to sit at a sidewalk cafe and watch the game with a group of friends.

Laura and I assembled a care package for Chris to take on the plane so we left Christo's early from watching the game to stop by a kiosk and pick up the rest of our supplies.  Adrienne slept over last night since we didn't get back from dinner and watching the game until late, so the boys walked over this morning and woke us up on the way to the airport.  It was sad to see him leave, it felt like he was part of our group even though he was only here for two weeks. 

Its even sadder to think that we are leaving next week.  We only have 9 days left; its gone by so fast, yet seems like we've known each other forever.  The experience of being involved in an intense living situation like this creates such deep friendships, I love that I have had so many opportunities to get to know people whose memory I will cherish forever.  My circle of friends is so much larger because of these 3 different study abroad experiences, its really incredible to think about. 

We are planning a short island excursion for this weekend, as a last hurrah before we go home.  Some of the Geneseo group are going camping on Paros, but we aren't looking to spend that much money or stay that long so it will probably just be a small group of us taking a long day trip to Spetses, another island in the Argo-Saronic Gulf about an hour from Hydra where we went three weeks ago.  We're also planning a trip down the coast to Sounio to see the Temple of Poseidon, one of the more famous temples in Greece.  The rest of the group also has to take the train out to Irini to see the modern Olympic complex for their class, so we are going to do that in the morning and then leave for the island early on Saturday. 

Tonight my plan is to find dinner (probably Subway b/c it is cheap/close/and I'm craving a meatball sub), buy stamps at the post office to mail my many postcards (its going to cost a fortune), and then possibly start outlining my final paper for Philosophy of Religion-my topic is the Problem of Evil.  I'm also going to try and upload some pictures because I got a coupon for Kodakgallery that expires tomorrow, so I may be posting a link to those soon.

Kali Spera!

~RLM

GotD: Hronia Pola! - Many Years (Happy Birthday)
in honor of V-nasty and Retta's birthday today

P.S. I got an A on my Philosophy midterm exam, I was absolutely thrilled.