MYKONOS

hold onto that feelin'

 Ciao! It has been a few days since I blogged so the details are fuzzy but the pictures tell a pretty good story themselves. While today is tuesday I am blogging about the past friday. I'd say it's more important to live it than write about it, although I love writing.

  

 Spent the day after class wandering around downtown with Phil and most of our group. We stayed on the outside of Syntagma square but passed many police wearing thick jackets and holding big guns on their chests. Everything was kept in a centralized location and we avoided all the trouble by walking a little further. The funny thing about these 'riots' is, the demonstrators have all the tricks down at this point. 'If we light something on fire, it will surely make the news;' and this seems to be how it works. We walked around an area as peaceful as our residence hall neighborhood and came back to see on the news that more 'chaos' was happening. But that is good news. It's not as bad as it seems.

Special Olympics Summer Games 2011: Athens, Greece

Congrats to Richard Heath of Vero Beach, 2011 Golf Olympic Team!

Our room took a trip downtown friday night for dinner and drinks before heading to Mykonos in the early morning. No feta on our salads but a delicious meal including: bread, chicken, salad, wine and dessert for 11 euros each. The exchange rate trips me up here sometimes, seeing 5 or 6 euros for the price of a quick dinner seems cheap until realizing that in the US, you would be paying for a modest sit-down restuarant. It takes a little bit of practice.