May 13, 2008
Hi Everybody--
One last note before I head out to the States late, late tomorrow night.
I'm finishing up my finals. One last one to go. Econ. Tomorrow. Wohoo.
Things here are wrapping up. My dear roommate Erica left early this weekend because she had to go graduate. Graduate-shmaduate. Now it's just me and the smelly boys in the apartment. Actually, I'm a bigger mess than they are right now. I've been packing and it looks like a bomb exploded in my room. Not surprising to many of you, I'm sure. It's extra bad right now though.
So, before Part 1 of this Greek Odyssey ends, I thought I'd leave you with one last anecdote.
This weekend I was supposed to go to a town in the Peloponesse for a work related task. I'm helping to organize a film screening this summer taking place in this town and need to check out the accommodations. This trip is rather important, but has been postponed at least 3 times, so I was very excited to finally be going. I was all set to go. I had coordinated with Phaedra--the Greek woman who did my job before--to go with me, the mayor of the town to show us around, and had reserved a car to be picked up early Sunday morning. But, late Saturday night, Phaedra called me and asked if I had listened to the news that day. I had not, so she informed me that the gas truck drivers union was on STRIKE and there was almost NO gas in Greece. People had been driving around for hours, only to find a gas station with not enough gas to fill up and charging whatever they wanted...Seriously?? There are no trains that go there and buses were out of the question because of the gas shortage, so the trip was once again canceled. Who'da thunk it? GAS. A problem. I'm reminded of SNOW being an issue when trying to SNOWboarding...Oh, Greece.Oh, brother.
Anyhow, as many charming thing as there are in this country, I'm really excited to go back to the land of worker compliance and regular trash pick up for a time. I'm sure by June I'll be all psyched up to rejoin the world of Greek chaos though.
Hope you all are well! Cheers to those who have actually been reading these! You're champs!
I'll see some of you SO soon!
Until June,
Your's truely,
A.
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