First weekend in Athens

Well its been a couple days since I wrote and a lot has happened. A couple days ago a group of people including me went to bumper cars haha. We took the tram to this place which was quite interesting. It was a restuarant/bar attached to a type of arcade/ bumper car place. It was a lot of fun and a group of about 12 of us were the only people on the bumper cars.

We had our first two days of classes on thur. and fri (we normally wont have classes on friday). My classes are so far so good and I decided to switch one of them cause i thought the one would be pretty boring. Modern Greek class is very interesting. It's a little frustrating cause the alphabet is a lot different but I'm beginning to be able to somewhat read signs haha and I guess being immersed in the language will help me move along. Although the people speak greek a whole lot of them speak english. I would say almost every young person (people 30 and below) speak english and a lot of older people do too. It's a lot different then learning spanish but I think eventually i'll get use to it.

So I know I promised some pictures so I'll post some of my room and the views from my balcony.

This is the view from the academic center. It extremely weird to be so close to the Parthenon something I have only see in a dark room on slides. But now I am so close and seeing it in person which seems almost unreal (as write now I am looking out the window at the Parthenon while typing this). I havent yet gone up to the Acropolis but am planning on it soon and will definitly visit in my classes.

So Friday night I went out with a couple friends to a restaurant/bar place. Athens is pretty crazy in the sense that a normal night of people going out consists of going out at midnight with some people staying out to as last as 6 or 7 am. haha I cant say I plan on doing that but its extremely crazy. I guess Athens is known for this crazy nightlife haha (I guess thats why they have siesta).

Yesterday (Sat.) I decided to sign up for a hike with other students from the college. I wouldnt say it was a hike hike but we took a bus for about an hour to a mountain. We hiked up a path to the top area. The mountain looked down upon the town(?) of Marathon and the water and the view was extremely beautiful as you will see in the pictures below. We walked for about half an hour and then stopped for lunch. Here are some of the pictures. The first is an overall view of the water and Marathon. The second is a picture of me and a friend, Ryan, from gburg (who I didnt know before coming here) and Athens is somewhere behind our backs and the next is also a friend, Kelsey, from gburg (who I didnt also know before coming).

Well thats it for now I will post more as I continue taking pictures and adventuring.