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On Saturday, I went to the beach.  It was a beautiful day, and we spent most of the day playing paddleball and sunbathing.  After the beach, we went to Goody’s, a Greek fast food chain.  I wanted to go before I left Greece.  If I lived in Greece, I wouldn’t go back to Goody’s; it just wasn’t that good.  In the evening, we went out and had a good time dancing.

On Sunday, I relaxed and stayed inside most of the day because I got sunburned.  I read and studied for my Greek final.  Monday, I did more studying and went running in the National Gardens.  Tuesday was my Greek final, so the morning was spent studying as well.  The final went well, and now I’m done with Greek class!  

Yesterday, we went to the island of Aegina, which is only one hour away from the port, Piraeus.  We visited Cape Kolonna, which was the site of the ancient town and port in Aegina, the Temple of Aphaia, and Paleokhora, which is a hill with 33 small churches on it.  We only visited about 8 or 9 of the churches, and they were very small.  We spent some time on the beach, and I learned to play backgammon.  When it was time to catch the ferry back to Piraeus, we found out that there had been a fishermen’s strike at the port, and they had closed it down for a while, so there were no ferries going in or out.  We had to wait 2 hours until we could get on a ferry, but we made it back. 

This morning, we were supposed to go to the Benaki and Goulandris Museums but because we couldn’t work on our papers yesterday, our professor made these visits optional so we have more time to write our final papers.  I can’t wait to be done with this paper!