Athens in simply spectacular!! Granted I was most excited for Athens, so I might be a little biased, but I absolutely love it here (However, I feel like I have been saying that about everywhere I've been) For one, Greeks are so helpful. We wer trying to find out apartments, struggling with all of our luggage and a random lady comes up to us and helped us with directions, since we can't exaclty speak or even read Greek--never got the in Italy. haha! Two, everything is in walking distance! That means no metros, no buses needed and no more invasion of personal space on public transportation. Three, the food. is. amazing!!
On Saturday, Elaine, our program director, set us up with a huge picture scavenger hunt that lead us all over creation around Athens! We had to take photos of our group acting out various scenes with monuments to finding the most stray animals in one photo (There are stray dogs and cats all over the place here!) We found ourselves in a crazy fish market as well! We still don't know who the winner is yet...but here are a few pictures. We had some fun with this!
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| Our battle scene |
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| 'Sup Midwest?" |
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| Craziest thing in the flea market. Dinosaurs? |
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| Marathon runners! |
And then there's Halloween....
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| Handstands in the sand! |
Halloween is by no means celebrated here at all, so as a group we avoided the American celebration and instead spent the day at the beach of the Aegean Sea and watching the sunset from the Temple of Poseidon. can a day seriously get anymore perfect?! Picture this: a nice nap in the warm sun (it wasn't too hot either), playing soccer in the sand, skipping rocks, swimming, snacking on the beach surrounded by friends with the waves of the Aegean sea crashing up on the shore. I'd call that a picture perfect day! Around dusk, we hiked up the mountain to the temple of Poseidon to see the Greek sun set behind the sea. It was one of the most spectacular sights I've ever seen. What a treat! (No pun intended, seeing as is was halloween..ha ha ha) So not your typical halloween by any means, but definitely one well spent--I'll take it! :) Enjoy!
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| Wow |
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| Temple of Poseidon |
Halloween is by no means celebrated here at all, so as a group we avoided the American celebration and instead spent the day at the beach of the Aegean Sea and watching the sunset from the Temple of Poseidon. can a day seriously get anymore perfect?! Picture this: a nice nap in the warm sun (it wasn't too hot either), playing soccer in the sand, skipping rocks, swimming, snacking on the beach surrounded by friends with the waves of the Aegean sea crashing up on the shore. I'd call that a picture perfect day! Around dusk, we hiked up the mountain to the temple of Poseidon to see the Greek sun set behind the sea. It was one of the most spectacular sights I've ever seen. What a treat! (No pun intended, seeing as is was halloween..ha ha ha) So not your typical halloween by any means, but definitely one well spent--I'll take it! :) Enjoy!
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