day day dee dee water, the dog.

Because a picture is worth a thousand words,
here are thousands of words to look at.

This is today:



ευτυχισμένος Παρασκευή!

felice venerdì, happy friday!

third day of class. cafe after class. italian homework. skype with michelle.

set off the fire alarm. dinner with Kaplans. early night for an early morning.

"We're one but we're not the same, we get to carry eachother."

"we are pandora": at the Platka

Our whole group (including the Kaplans) took our first downtown trip last night to the Platka (tourist-area) in downtown Athens. Once we naviagted the bus and metro system to the square, dinner was at Scholarhio which boasted to be "the most traditional family restaurant." We had to split our big group into three tables and at ours we ordered calamari, meatballs, beans, hummus, greek salad, potato wedges and tons of bread for dipping in everything! All of this for 32 Euros split between the five of us. We had a sunset view of the Acropolis walking around shopping, mostly window shopping...Dr. Kaplan gave us information about some of the ruins in the city and little Ellie took a few pictures for me.

photo_ellie kaplan

photo_dana andresen



Ciao, American College of Greece!

First day of classes at Deree and I learned my first few words in Italian.

Mi chiamo Erica, sono americana....and so on.

I felt great today, nice and awake and healthy which was the best! My roommates keep all the windows open and it smelled like fresh oranges and watermelon all day long (thanks, katie!) We made pasta for dinner and everyone is doing their homework now. Got our metro and bus pass today so downtown for class tomorrow, yippie!

sweet dreams

Spending a day in bed to get rid of the little bug in my system was frustrating.

Finally getting out of bed to see the sunset was worth it.

Crepes at the the end of the night were perfect.

photo_dana andresen

photo_dana andresen

jazz music in the plateia after dark

kicking jet lag's ass

here comes the sun, little darlin'

sunrise hike. 20+ found condoms. student reception. Oktoberfest.

teaching Jesus beer pong

 Dusseldorf, Germany International Airport

This photo of my lunch is serving as a shout out to Alex, you can imagine how much better this is than a Greek Salad in America. More good food to come..duh, it's Greece!

bye bye, Dusseldorf!

and hello, Greek Islands!

Dinner at the Kaplans apartment, looming jetlag, time for bed.