So its been a pretty busy couple of days. The pictures above are in backwards order kind of but I ll explain them in a little bit. First on Friday me and a couple of my friends explored Syntagma a little bit and then decided to try the metro out a little more and once we got on we kind of decided to just go to Piraeus (the main port). We thought we should just go check it out and see the water. So we arrived in Piraeus and then walked around a little there by the water which is full of a large number of huge ferry boats. Then something exciting/scary (not necessarily scary) haha but i dont know how to explain it happened. It was me my friend ryan and another friend whitney and we were stopped at like a crosswalk to cross the street. And these two guys walked up behind us and got aweful close... and being the street smart/observant people we are both ryan and I knew these two guys were a lil suspicious. So we put our hands in our pockets and kept an eye on them as we were standing there. (Ryan says he saw them look at whitneys arm to see if she had a purse... which she didnt). But anyway so we crossed the street and one guy went in front of us while the other stayed behind us and a extremely close/suspicious distance. We could obviously tell that they seemed like they were trying to pickpocket us so after walking a lil bit we decided to stop at a kiosk to act like we were going to buy something and then the guys just kept walking and that was the end of it. I mean its nothing to exciting I guess but i know mom is prob freaking out reading this haha but I mean we easily caught on and have been aware every time we go somewhere.
Well anyway Pireaus was a pretty cool place and it was nice to just see the water and the ferries. So then on Saturday me and three of my friends (Ryan, Whitney, and Greg) decided to go hiking on some random mountain that one of the teachers told us about. So we boarded a bus and went to the town below the mountain. It only was about a 10 min bus ride. This is where the pictures are from. At first we didnt quite know how to get to the mountain so we had to ask a couple people to figure it out but eventually we made it. Along the way we found a soccer stadium (the last picture). It wasnt a huge stadium but it was pretty cool. The next two pictures are from about the middle of the mountain. We went up pretty high but are planning on going back to climb to the summit. It was pouring rain so we decided to save the summit for later (haha). The first pic is just the three guys on the mountain and the next is a view towards athens. Along our hike we met a couple greek people and didnt talk much with them but then we met this lady who spoke english (YES English! haha). So we talked to her and she told us how she lived in New York for seven years and how she was a psychologist or something and thats why she was in the united states. She then proceeded to give us her telephone number in case we ever had questions about Athens or other places to hike or something. (People here are extremely nice and very willing to help and even give out there phone numbers... which seemed a lil weird at first but not as crazy as one would think.)
Well last night the superbowl was on and it started at 1:30 am here so a bunch of people wanted to watch it so we went to an Irish Pub. It was very enjoyable because all english is spoken there (haha) and we were able to watch the game on a huge screen/projector. I'm glad it was a good game otherwise I would have felt like it was a huge waste to stay up till 5:30 am to watch it haha. I've been able to take a nap today so I'm not that tired and plan on going to bed early tonight.
Well Allison is coming in two days so I'm meeting her at the airport and ill try to update this in a couple days.
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