This morning we headed to the Ancient Agora, which I found out I've been pronouncing it wrong all this time. The stress is on the last a instead of the /or/. It actually wasn't as exciting as I thought it would be. But Bette said it is so special because of the things they found there, most of which is in storage or museums we will see later. We learned about the Athenian games that sounded really intense and cool. One event, called Pankration, is basically a fight to the death. It is a mixture of boxing and wrestling. There were only two rules: no eye gouging and no biting. It was sometimes a fight to the death. The main move they would do was grab the opponent's adam's apple and twist it! Ahhh so gross. They would also cover themselves in olive oil so it would be easier to slip away. Then the winner would scrape off the oil with a metal tool and bottle it up and sell it for people to use for skin ailments and an aphrodisiac! That's so gross.
I also picked my paper topic, I'm doing a comparison of the games held in Athens, Delphi, and Olympia. I'm actually excited about it, it sounds really interesting. I met with the teacher and she showed me in the library where I could find all of the information I need. She's really nice and helpful. I also found a section of the library with novels we can check out so I was really excited about that!
Bette and I went to the market and the grocery store to buy some food for dinner. Either tonight or tomorrow we're going to stay in and eat together. We got some orzo and fresh green onions, tomatoes, green beans, and olive oil. It should be very good.
Not too exciting today but we were still tired from our trip this weekend. Talk to you later!
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