So this last month has been quite eventful, probably the best month and the worst month here in Greece. I have said goodbye to some wonderful people and I have said goodbye to my home Thessaloniki. I will miss it. Life has been good but now it’s time to start an adventure and explore this world! At the moment I am in Athens. I arrived at 6 in the morning and spent the day site-seeing. I was welcomed to my hostel by two prostitutes. Charming. I showered and got ready for the day, walked outside and a car pulled up beside me. A creep peered out the window, tooted and beckoned me over. Ok. So he thought i was a hooker. Even more charming. But you know what, it paid for my day, breakfast, lunch, dinner, wine. We should all prostitute ourselves.
So Athens is quite an amazing city. I never realised how old it all is. And how on earth is it all standing and still in such good nick? And you can touch it and sit on it and walk on it and kick it if you please... thats 3000 years right there! I started to have ruin overload like I had in Egypt, it was all a bit too incredible and now i have about a thousand photos of some old rock that was a building or a pillar or a pot. But still incredible.
but sometimes a dog is just as fascinating....
Its also bloody hot here. When its hot you seem to get so much more exhausted, i came back to my hostel before dropping quickly into the brothel to say hello and I slept for two hours (in my hostel) non-stop. When i travelled a few years back I used to look at the sleepers in the room and think, why are you sleeping in the middle of the day when you are in such an incredible place? Well thats me now. I think I am old. Need my nanna naps. And i don’t even feel much like going out tonight, partly because I know I have to wake up at around 6 am. Baa. The joys of being a backpacker! And a little note on my backpack. It is huge. I don’t really know what to do, I want everything in it and I just spent about 60 euros sending everything home but its still huge. I feel like I am carrying a little man on my back.
So, enough about today, not a lot to say. Lets talk about my last month. I did start to write a post about 3 weeks ago... Here it is....
22/05
Theres a kid that lives in my building and everyday she has a tantrum, i found out today that she’s she, i saw her in full swing, stomping her feet, fists clench, pounding the walls and screaming. Mum didn’t do a thing, she just ignored her. How do kids get like that? Everyday she screams for around an hour and its really really annoying.
I went to the soccer on Sunday, PAOK vs ... both are Thessaloniki teams but PAOK is the number one team on the Greek board at the moment.... or whatever it is in soccer terms. PAOK was number one even before the match. PAOK supporters are crazy. Ben told me that PAOK supporters are the biggest graffiti gang in the world?? Everywhere around Thessaloniki PAOK is tagged, at first you think ‘wow, this guy really gets around!’ but soon realise that they are Greece’s number one team. Anyway the soccer games here are madness. Its like going to a riot, we decided it was preparation for the riot coming up on Thursday (not missing it this time!) everyone watching the match is so into it, they are jumping around and yelling and singing, the crowd is like one crazy moshpit – its really exciting! We weren’t in the middle of the huge moshpit, i guess thats a good things as it looked pretty crazy especially for a young lady!! So the match was the finals, PAOK already knew that they were in ... number one... it was pretty much just a fun match and there were no supporters for... absolutely none, you would be crazy to go if you were a .. supporter, you probably would have got killed. The whole match people were lighting flares and throwing them on to the field, people were throwing rolls of paper on the field (kind of like a receipt roll) the whole place was a bit of a mess. Right at the end of the match fireworks exploded above our heads, there was only about 10 minutes to go and ... had the ball in their territory so i think those fireworks were an effort to distract the players. It looked great but they were right above us, i felt like they were going to fall on me or something!
One thing about being a tourist in a place, even though i now call this place my home but what i mean is this is not my home so i need to do some touristy things, like go to a soccer game but when you try and study at the same time as site-see you get into a little bit of a pickle. Especially when your brain decides not to function which is what happened to me yesterday. I spent all day on one assignment and i got nothing. My brain just switched off for the day, actually i think my brain is just off for this whole time in Greece.
There were supposed to be riots yesterday but to our disappointment the protests and demonstrations were all peaceful, no rocks were thrown, no teargas, not even a policemen getting involved. They were there waiting for havoc but there wasn’t any. The demonstration was huge, thousands? of people stormed the streets. but still peaceful.
hmmm a whole lot more to update... but im already very behind in updates...
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