it always seems the longer you stay in one place, the less attractions you have to write about. the more time classes seem to take up, the less time you have to write about less stuff. but its not really true. i have just as much time, and just as much to write about. but im living instead of writing!
classes take up a good amount of time, but not too much. im not letting homework or reading get me down. im enjoying my lectures a lot, and the cool things we do in class. museum & ancient site during the day, greek verbs at night, cooking and exploring at night. im experiencing that small classroom feel for the first time. i mean i guess i had goldish's class last fall (only 7 people in a history class at osu! incredible) but this is so amazing. im getting to know my professors. they are so interesting. guiding some time of the year, teaching, phds but prefer to be called by their first names. its a very cool experience. and the people at the center (doesnt that sound cultish? everytime i say it THE CENTER! i feel like a Scientologist or something, but its called the Arcadia Center for Hellenic, Balkan and Mediterranean studies so we call it the center) are so awesome.
Im so lucky I ended up with Melissa and Jayna. It is unique to find people who dont judge my oddities, who enhance my desire to explore, to open a bottle of wine in the early evening JUST because we CAN. wanting to go to paris and milan, but also knowing a crazy weekend in corfu is completely necessary to fulfill our abroad experience. we have a lot of fun and its awesome. sometimes i dont even need to say what im thinking cause they are thinking it too. i look at other people in my program. and i think id be so unhappy without them. im extremely thankful and lucky.
yesterday was yom kippour and I didnt fast cause im in a country of millions of greek orthodox people and i didnt have any motivation too. and then for dinner melissa made pork and it was an awesome great dinner! and i kept joking saying im such a bad jew! not fasting and eating pork for dinner! too bad at 3am i woke up feeling awful and spent an hour on the bathroom floor (ill spare you the details but it wasnt pretty) divine intervention? yes 100% sure. thats the last yom kippour i decide to ignore. god smiting me? not cool. had to miss 2 classes! im still not feeling great but i was able to eat!
ive been reading the new dan brown book. not having a tv really helps knock things off my book list. anyway its amazing as expected. i cant stop reading it!!! so good!!
tonight we went to the center (im not in a cult i swear!!!!) and watched in america for jayna and melissas greece literature class. i went along because i was bored, needed to get my face outta the dan brown, and had wanted to see that movie ever since it came out and won an oscar a few years back. it was honestly amazing. i love it. i love movies.
i have to go to sleep now. i am going to a museum tomorrow and have to be up lightweight early.
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