weird weather.

Today when I got dressed, the sun was shining so I wore short sleeves. When I walked over to class, it was a little bit cloudy. In class, we reconjugated our verbs and Fay was happier. Unfortunately we also conjugated (for lack of a better word) nouns. They have different endings depending on whether they're a subject or object, singular or plural, and other things we didn't discuss. After class, we had an hour break, and Michelle and I finally fixed our internet so now we can both use it at the same time! Then we had our culture class (when I walked over, it was chilly and windy outside), which today was about Greek music history. We listened to some clips from a variety of time periods, which were really interesting. Geographic region and year makes a big difference in the sound. I particularly liked the pieces from the Post-Byzantine Era, which featured more violin-ish instruments. At the end of class, it was POURING outside, with some thunder and lightning. Tina, Katlynn, and I were going to go on a run, but I took a nap for an hour instead. When I woke up, the sky was half blue and half filled with white puffy clouds, so Katlynn and I went on a nice sunny run. We ran in the opposite direction of campus, and went on some new streets which was interesting. We also found a Metro Cash and Carry, which is like a mini-Costco. I may need to start doing some shopping there because I keep running out of food. After our run I went to Carrefour (again!) with Michelle and Nicolette. On our walk there, it started to get a little breezy. I bought more food, a bowl, cup and silverware (I realized after buying cereal and milk last time that I was still missing something haha) and a sweet yoga set for $8. It has a yoga mat, two blocks, and a strap. Now I can actually stretch out and do core without laying on the hard tile floor :)
On our walk back it got legitimately cold and windy; my hands were kind of numb when I unlocked my door. We got ready to go into town and met up with our class for day one of our Ethnographic Study. We split up into groups of 3 and walked up to random Greeks and, after making sure they spoke English, asked them a few questions about (in my group's case) politics and gender relations. This sounded INCREDIBLY awkward and I felt way out of my comfort zone when we were looking for the first people to interview, but it ended up being fine. The first couple we talked to was really nice; they were interested in what we were doing and enthusiastic about answering our questions. It was getting kind of rainy so I was glad we ambushed them at a covered bus stop. We also talked to two college guys under a kiosk awning and two men outside their apartment having cigarettes. They all had different opinions about the questions we asked, except they all said that Greeks don't trust the government. I'll share a coherent version of all the responses when we work on our final presentation at the end of the quarter, since we're going to be doing this every Tuesday evening.
After, we all met up and had dinner at the Greek restaurant where we ate last Friday, which was so delicious. It's so enjoyable to have well-prepared traditional Greek food. This time we had bread, Mediterranean salad, green salad, orzo pasta with beef I think, okra, fish fillet, rice-stuffed peppers, spaghetti with some sort of meat, and I think a few other dishs as well. After, Taso said he wanted to treat us all to ice cream, so we went to the gelato place that I ate at the first weekend and we all got incredible ice cream. I ate a lot, but it was fabulous. Then we all bused back together (by this time, it was freezing out). I'm sure the Greeks thing we're crazy: 25 Americans crowding on the bus must look pretty weird.