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KALIMERA! TI KANIS? (GOOD MORNING! HOW ARE YOUU?)

So I've discovered a new favorite food. It's call pita chicken GYROS!!!!! It's so delicious. the slow roasted chicken, french fries, tomatoes and this amazing sauce wrapped in a warm toasty pita. We learned how to order it in Greek last night so during our break I went to go get one. NOM NOMMMMSSS It's only 2 euros :)
I've also been trying to befriend people in the different shops that I frequent. So the gyro place is one of them haha (definitely) and this cafe that's right next door. The lady working these is so cool and chill! She calls me sweetie and darling haha. She's my new coffee mama. She takes care of my..coffee needs haha. I've yet to ask them their names but I'll get there: POS SE LENE; (What's your name?) In Greek, they use a semicolon as their question mark. We also found this really cool pool place called Union. There's like 6 pool tables, big screen, bar, and CHIPS (those are really good chips). So we went last night and we played some pool and basically the Americans have taken over that pool hall haha. A bunch of people from our program hang out there all the time and there's this other program from Penn State and we met a few of them there last night too. I met the owners of the pool hall, don't quite remember how to pronounce their names...but I was practicing my Greek with one of them :) He told me to call him Tom haha. He's this old man and when you call him Hey Alligator! He'll respond, SEE YOU LATER! it's so funny. Oh and they're showing the superbowl on Sunday night for us haha, not that I really watch football but hey. FREE YUMMY POTATO CHIPS!
We were also introduced to the public transportation yesterday. We took the trolly to like central Athens. Then took the metro to Syntagma square. We went to this like classical studies research library and ya. Public transportation seems pretty convenient and easy. One ticket is 1 euro and you get it stamped when you enter the bus. It's then valid for 1.5 hours and you can ride wherever you want on a bus, trolly, or metro. The metro station is suuppperr clean though and very nice. When we got on the doors were closing and this man tried to get in and but he couldn't and his briefcase got caught in the door, so he went to get it out and his fingers got stuck. All of us were like..AHH!! but no one else reacted haha. They just laughed at us for gasping. Then we walked back and my legs are soo tired from all the walking we've been doing these past 4 days. All this uphill and downhill are killing me! I better have really toned legs and butt when I get back!
Well that's all for now. We're leaving on a trip to Nafplion (this beautiful city by the coast of Greece that once was the capital) in a few hours so it should be really pretty. PICTURE TAKING TIME!!! and hopefully postcard purchasing time too.. But until then...ADIO!!

ps. All you kids back in the state or wherever you have mass amounts of hot water. APPRECIATE IT! Because if we want to shower we have to turn the water heater on for atleast 30 minutes before we can shower or else there isn't hot water. The longer we leave it on the longer of a shower we can take. It sucks having the hot water run out on you. 30 minutes is probably like a 10 minute shower maybe. Oh and be happpy about your shower heads that are fixed high up on a wall. Ours are hand held and the handle is like way low so you can't just stand there and do your business. You have to turn off the water. shampoo and do all that then rinse. I miss just standing in the water. Cuz if you do that, you may run out of hot water :( And you can't just leave the water heater on while you shower cuz you might get electrocuted. Yep. haha oh and you can't flush toilet paper down the toilet either.