Yasis! (hello in Greek)
I didn't take any pictures today so I thought I'd put up one of my roommates and I from the other night! We're holding up a four because we live at Lyssipou 4. From the left is Dora, Bette, me, Heather, Kelly, and Marissa.
Last night we decided to go to Monostriaki Square and do some shopping. That part of the city could be my favorite. They have the most beautiful shops full of everything you can think of: clothes, hats, purses, knick knacks, shoes, sunglasses, everything! It's so cute because every shop here is small and specific, different from the US. The city gets really busy around 7-9pm, Greeks start later and go later (my kind of people). There are street preformers all around and they're not homeless people or trashy, they play beautiful music that just adds to the atmosphere.
This morning we went to the Acropolis Museum again to focus on the Parthenon Frieze. This is what a lot of the debate is about because of Ambassodor Elgin who took so many of them back to Britain. It is very sad to me to see the huge voids where other parts of the frieze should be. We also looked at the caryatids which I love! They are the women who act as columns to hold up the Temple of Athena Nike on the Acropolis. I love them because they are so beautiful and unique. They are all individual and beautifullly detailied.
After that we did some more shopping around Plaka square and went into a lot of cool little shops. We went into this one Greek antique store that was stuffed full of beautiful things, Grandma would love it!
This afternoon we had our conferences with our Professor about our papers and mine went really well! She just had me make a few changes and it's due Tuesday so I have a while to make them. My presentation also got changed to a week from Today and it's now on the Roman changes to the Agora, I sort of hate the Agora so we'll see how that goes...
Tomorrow we are going to Corinth and then on to Napflion so I won't be back until Saturday night!
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