Thursday, April 22, 2010

YOGURT!

I am pooped and still have some more internship app stuff to do and and I have to get up early tomorrow so this will be short. We're going to Parga (sweet town on the coast) on our Friday field trip tomorrow, and then I'm planning on staying there/Corfu (a sweet island) so I won't be posting till Sunday, but that one will be long with lots of pictures! I've done a bunch of traveling in the last few months where I just got on some buses and figured everything would work out; I think I made two hotel reservations in all of Ecuador. The kids on my program haven't done quite as much winging it so planning this weekend has involved SO much more discussion haha. Sadly, hotels here are not $5 per night. I am not excited to be paying for lodging on weekends when I travel, even in hostels...

Anyways, this morning in Greek class my teacher spent half an hour discussing Greek fashion and some clothing vocab words. It was definitely a subject she enjoys haha. We had an hour break, during which I cleared our weekend trip with the program supervisor and my professor. Then we had a two hour lecture on Greek music from the 1960s until today. I really enjoyed listening to the music. That professor said he would make us a CD of all the songs so I'm excited. Then I went back to the program coordinator and signed a paper saying I wouldn't sue the University of Ioannina if I die on my own trip this weekend. just in case that's something I would do when I'm dead...
Katlynn and I went on a run after, which was great. We had a three hour break so we actually had time for a long run and some lunges and core. After running around campus we got to the track which was locked, but we decided we could pretend to be dumb Americans who didn't understand locks if anyone got mad at us for jumping over. No one did, but there were 5 or 6 other people who showed up while we were there and also climbed the fence haha.
We also had Albanian lecture again. It was similar to the last one. Meh. It's interesting information but the presentation could be better.
Dinner was entertaining. It actually wasn't too bad but it was either a plate of potato slices with little ham squares and feta cheese and sort of brown sauce, or a large and tall square (like a huge lasagna, minus tomatoes) of overcooked pasta and cheese, with a HUGE layer of cheesy/lardy something on top. That was the most entertaining part haha. We did have green salad and tomaotes and cucumbers so I was happy.
In dance class we were all pretty tired from a long day so we decided to laugh a lot despite our teacher's previous reprimands so it was fun. We learned 6 new steps last time and the following 6 steps today and it was a minor disaster, but that was funny too
Since then (as in 9pm when class ended, yay Thursdays) I've been working on internship applications. There are several which look really really cool. I'm pretty tired of writing and editing cover letters though...
Also, possibly the highlight of my day: my all time favorite yogurt at home is Dannon Vanilla that comes in the big yellow containers. It's really sweet and rather like dessert but I love it. Here in Greece, they don't have any of course, so I bought some little containers of a random product in the yogurt aisle. It's plain so there's no sugar, but it has the EXACT same texture as my Dannon yogurt, which is amazingggg. I'm thrilled :)

1 comment:

  1. Corfu= amazing pastry and ice cream place in Quicentro. I'm sure the place will be lovely too.
    Amath and I were discussing your blog today. We want to know how you feel about socialism now that you're living it? Ups and downs? A 5 page double-spaced essay will be good enough.

    So stoked you're running with Romm. Tell her I said HEYYYYYYY

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