S

I’m getting a better feel for what my routine will be like while I’m here.  We have expeditions in the morning, which usually end around noon, then some free time for lunch and errands, then class, first Greek language then history/civilization, at 3:30-6.  I hope to spend time after class blogging and checking email.  Sounds like a good schedule to me. J Of course, there are days when we have full day excursions, like tomorrow, and multiple day trips, like next week.  

Today we went on a walk around ancient Athens.  The weather was sunny and warm, as it has been the past few days, which I’m very happy about.  Today we visited the temple of Olympian Zeus, the biggest temple built in Greece.  What was left of it was quite impressive.  We also saw the Areiopagos, the place where the court used to meet to decide certain murder cases.  The Agora, or meeting place, Roman Agora and Library of Hadrian were also sights we saw today. 

Exciting news!  We had been having trouble getting hot water, but now it's fixed, so we can take hot showers! 

Even more exciting news! We don’t have class Friday through Monday because of Greek Easter, and today a few of us booked a trip to Santorini!!  We are taking the ferry there Friday morning.  We will take the normal ferry, which takes 6 hours.  We are staying two nights at what looked like a very nice hotel (with breakfast included) and coming back Sunday night on the fast ferry, which will take four hours.  The pictures I’ve seen of Santorini are amazing: super blue waters and white buildings with blue roofs.  I can’t wait!