I'll start at the beginning. So, our flight from Santorini was only 45 minutes long (20 minutes flight time, probably the shortest flight I've been on). Funny, my ticket had "Mr. Alexis Hardy." I was not aware of my sex change, but apparently the Greek airlines thought I was male. Then you take a 45 minute bus ride into Athens. Our hotel is right smack in the middle of the city. Our professor told us our location is like staying in Times Square in New York. I'm rooming with Ashley! So fun.
Sad story about the bus ride. This one family left one of their suitcases on the side walk. The dad made the bus stop, jumped out, grabbed the case, ran back (the fam held the doors the whole time because the bus was trying to leave) and managed to make it back! He was apologizing profusely to everyone. I felt so bad for them, how scary is that.
Anyways, we made it to the hotel by 2am. I'm so tired today, but I'm not wimping out! Today we had to get up early to go to the Acropolis. Our professor wanted to take us early so it wasn't so hot (it was still hot). SO COOL! I cant believe this stuff is still standing! Kyra and I took one of the most hilarious pictures of the trip so far, so we were kinda laughing the whole time while the history was explained. Oh well, I got some really cool pictures!
If you read Acts 17 we were on Mars Hill where Paul was teaching. Sweetness. The museum was really cool too. Apparently the ancients were scared of Voldemort:
In the museum, they had old shards of pots where if 6,000 people wrote your name on a shard that was considered a vote to throw you out of Athens for 10 years. I dunno about you, but if 6,000 people didn't like me I'd leave on free will.
My sunglasses also broke. Thats my second pair. Boo.
For lunch we found a fruit stand for way cheap. I love Athens!
View from Mars Hill. 5 million people live here.
After lunch we went to two business visits. The Eurobank Hotel and a graduate business school.
Honestly the Eurobank would have been interesting but I fell asleep. Ha ha. The business school was really interesting to hear about.
Sorry I'm writing fast because the Internet is lame here.
After the visits we went to see Poseidon's Temple and the sunset. Then I ate McDonalds for dinner. Yum!
I'm so sick of Europe Internet. Rar
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Location:Athens, Greece
I took mythology too and I loved it. I even thought about getting a greek classics minor, but that wouldn't have been very practical. :) This looks so fun, sorry about the lame internet.
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