Remember when we were younger, toys came in the bottom of the cereal box. Well I'm sitting here in Greece eating my Honey Nut Cheerios (yes they have them here!!!) and about 2 minutes ago I pulled out a little figurine of The Joker. It was a great blast from the past.

Anyway, we had a great weekend here in Thessaloniki. Friday night most of us decided to stay in and go to bed early because we had all been out every night. 10 minutes later when we found out other people were going out we were ready to go!!! Thank you, peer pressure. hahaha. So we walked down to the waterfront (which is really the #1 place to go) and tried a new bar. Demetri, one of the guys in our program is Greek and has friends and family that live here so we met up with a bunch of them and again tried to practice our Greek, which is never that successful. We didn't stay out too long, and some of us made it home the earliest we've been in all week.

Saturday night we decided to go to a club near the airport. In the summertime, because of noise restrictions within the city, all of the clubs have to move out to the airport. The first club we went to wouldn't let us in because they heard us speaking english. At the second club we kept our mouths shut and were eventually let in. Greeks don't dance here, and if they do, they don't do it well (stonehillers, this is NOTHING like our mixers). A bunch of the freshmen happened to be there so we had a little american corner going on for a while.

I honestly don't know how Greeks function on so little sleep. We didn't get home that night til 5 am, but we slept all day to make up for it. Greeks do this almost every single night and have jobs to go to in the morning. Thank goodness for the afternoon siesta!

Last night we decided that since we'd been eating Greek all week, we would go to Applebee's. And we ate dinner at more of an American time (8pm) so we REALLY looked like foreigners. We got back early and played some cards and went to be at a relatively decent hour.

Classes start today, but since I only have class on Tuesday and Thursday I had yet one more day of a four month long summer. I'm very excited to start classes and meet some Greek students.

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- more on the Greek culture and Thessaloniki
-PICTURES!!!