its all happening

ive had two great days so far. heres whats been up
i moved in!! i got to my apartment after dragging all my bags two blocks from the place i thought was my apartment. good thing though because the real apartment is sweet! its on this great street, very centrally located between school, athens and the street in pagrati with all of the shops and bars and restaurants. i guess you could call pagrati a neighborhood of athens, its about 15 minute walk from the city center, but its really its own paradise. weve got normal things i discovered while lost yesterday!! like a sephora, mcdonalds on our corner!! fridays (the restaurant! hahaa) united colors of Benetton. its great! our walk to the school is only about 4 minutes, up a little hill and through a square. they have these adorable sqaures all over, roundabouts with cafes inside and all around it. we've been doing a lot of boring orientation stuff, safety info, school info, reapplying for our extended stay visa (ours only lasts 90 days) and learning the neighborhood. we've gone to the grocery, the open air market which is sweet and very very inexpensive! we tried a sushi restaurant last night and even made it to a few bars!
i keep saying we ive noticed! most of the time its been my roommates and me. jayne and melissa and melissa are my roommates and they are awesome! (damn i also just noticed the excessive use of exclamation marks)

anyway we had a great day yesterday and a better night, we shared wine, sushi, more wine, a game of kings with my greek mythology cards, and then with help from the gods found the bar a few blocks away that everyone was at. thank goodness for my impeccable sense of direction, it could have taken us hours instead of 4 minutes.

our apartment is great minus the rat. we all have our own bedrooms, an adorable marble kitchen with everything but a microwave, an extra bedroom that was actually the living room before, that we reverted back into the living room after our 5th roommate failed to come. we have an amazing balcony, and lots of windows, and a view of the acropolis. its just perfect and cosy.