so its official. im turning greek. well my body clock is anyway. and the other australian students here are, as i said in my last post they are having a lot of difficulty getting residency but paddy and i are lucky enough to have some pommy heritage and we breeze on through with our british passports, the other aussie students went to the hospital today to get some crazy tests to prove that australians arent disease infested and get one step closer to being a greek. so they were successful, they are probably more greek than me now. but anyway the issue of my body clock. ever since i got here i have loved to sleep. and we all say we love to sleep but all i can think about is my bed and falling onto my soft pillow and getting all twisted up in my sheets with my beautiful green itchy blanket scratching my face, no seriously, my bed is pretty sh*t (as if that makes it not a swear word) and my pillow is not fluffy. but i love it. i love to sleep here. i go to bed early, i dont sleep, i will watch a movie (i have been getting up to date on my movies because if you know me well enough you will know that i have seen hardly any movies) or i will read a book (just started 'the catcher in the rye' - amazing) so i will be in bed for an hour or so and then go to sleep and sleep and sleep and sleep. waking up around midday and then just eating and lazing around getting ready to get back into bed. it might be partly becuase i dont really have much to do during the day, apart from purchasing beautiful dresses. and also it might be becuase i go out drinking till the sunrises...
yesterday i woke up at 3pm, this is the fourth time i have done this since i have been here and i never do that back at home. the greek way is to start the party after midnight and party untill sunrise. so this is how i party now. i get home when its light after a night of dancing. one thing i should point out about greece is that when you go out dancing you are usually the only one dancing, people here dont dance. its really wierd. they all stand around looking hot and sipping on there €10 drinks (about $15) and not letting loose. to be honest i dont know how they stay up for sooo long and afford to drink! they earn a small percentage of what we earn in australia! and one thing about greece, the hangovers are awful. awful awful awful. so sleep is the best thing to do. some people say that the spirits arent pure and they often put cheap spirits inside expensive bottles, with added chemicals and what not so the result is a headache of hell. and also when you order a drink, it might be a €10 drink but they fill it to the brim with spirits and then add a little bit of tonic or whatever you have on top. my gin&tonic was intense.
not this one. this one was just a gin. intense.
some of you may have heard about the current economic crisis here in greece. well here i am right in the heart of it all. i can't say that things are different because i didn't know what they were like before. it seems normal to have strikes every other day and for demonstrations to pass through my street twice a day. its perfectly normal for something so simple to take such effort.. is it?
so yesterday i went to the supermarket and when i stepped out i was in the middle of a demonstration. it was loud and it seemed angry. i walked with it for a while. i had no idea what it was all about but i was interested to find out.
the march stopped at an intersection and we were faced with another demonstration.i asked a guy there what was going on, he said that they were 2 separate political party followers, one was left winged and the other were anarchists, they told me to be careful before they joined the anarchists.
mcdonalds was safely covered by big garage door type things (i can't think of what they are called right now) but all the banks also had covers over the entrances as they are targets for these groups. i saw a guy spray painting something in greek on a bank. i dont know what it said. the photos blurry because i was worried if he saw me take it he would get angry.
i was a little worried that a fight might break out but curious me stuck around to see if anything exciting happened. unfortunately, or fortunately, nothing happened. it was interesting though, they had a bit of yelling battle, yelling their different chants to each other. maybe there was more of a riot down the street? i dont know, i went home. i went back about half an hour later and mcdonalds was open again but there were riot police everywhere with those shields and big helmets on, there was also a lot of noise and commotion. a bit exciting!
so it turns out that anarchist students occupied the journalism school so education is out the window. they have destroyed classrooms and are masked and dangerous. apparently 3 anarchists were arrested yesterday so this is the revolt. we are going to have a look later. the funny thing is the police cant do anything, police have no authority on school property so i don't know how this one will be sorted out.
so tonight is the 'ultimate australian erasmus party'. pretty excited but unfortunately we don't have any beerbongs or goon bags so its not going to be as australian as we hope. but we are sure to play some aussie rock. and do some aussie dancing. and show all those erasmus students how we party. woo.
and then i have to wake up early and get on a plane to egypt. poor me. i have to go to egypt. so im well pumped for that, this time tomorrow i will be in cairo. markets here i come!! that is if they havent cancelled the plane because of the volcanic eruption in iceland, they cancelled all flights out of england and they say the volcanic cloud is travelling down europe, currently in russia or something.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8623817.stm
so please cloud can you evaporate or something before you make it to greece?
anyway my friends. have a good week. i will be updating this after egypt. or if i get a chance to go on the internet whilst i am there. not sure how good the connection is in the sahara or on the nile. we will see. ciaou!
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