Kerameikos

Today we spent the morning in Kerameikos, which is the site of a mass burial grave and other ruins. It was very neat! It's basically this huge plot of land that has all these beautiful flowers and plants with a stream running through. There are old columns and sections of walls and stuff that goes as far back as 4th century BC! It was actually pretty hot today because we were standing outside but we got some shady spots as well. We also had these same three dogs that followed us everywhere, it was sort of gross. We explored the museum and our teacher had us document that evolution of the pottery through the ages so that was neat. I also found about the Plague of Athens and we saw the map of where they found all of the remains. There was also a grave of 7 Spartan soldiers they found, they even found a piece of red cloth that they believe was part of the cloak they wear in battle!

We decided to take the metro closer to our apartment and it was relatively uneventful until some workers came around to check our tickets. They went up to Dora, one of the girls in my apartment, and were speaking Greek and made us stay with them at the stop while all 4 of them checked all of our tickets about 4 times! We were so nervous we would be detained or something even though we did nothing wrong! I guess she had a bunch of old tickets in her purse and handed them the wrong one so it was nothing but it seemed stragne. I guess they're government is just so desperate for money they're checking everyone's tickets. They don't have those guardrails that stop you from going in without punching your ticket, you can just walk through! So I guess they were trying to police that.

Tomorrow morning we leave for Marathon, Brauron, and Sounion and should get back around 6 pm to our appartment. Dora, Heather, Bette and I decided to make a trip to the island of Mykonos Saturday and Sunday so I'm really looking forward to that! It should be a lot of fun and is supposed to be beautiful.
All for now!

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