Last day today! Weird feelings going on. A lot of people are going home Saturday or soon so I sort of feel like I'm going to as well. Then I remember I have another month! I'm so excited for this next class but am a little nervous about moving and meeting the other girls in our class (16 girls...ALL girls). I miss certain things about home like ice water, large public bathrooms, people not trying to run me over everytime I try and cross the street, diet coke, stray dogs, etc. And obviously all of you! But I absolutely LOVE athens. And all of Greece, really. And I'm very excited to see more of it like Crete and Santorini. So it's like bittersweet. I will miss my apartment and my roommates a lot but my next ones are great too! It's closer to CYA and has a better bathroom. And I already know the girls I will be living with. They are both Sams and Justine from Michigan and Kate from Indiana. I think we will have a lot of fun together!
Today we met at the Agora and I did my presentation on the Roman influence on the Agora, it went well. We talked more about that and then walked to Hadrian's library. It was huge! Hadrian was this Roman Emperor that had two great loves: 1) Athens and 2) Himself. He basically thought he was this huge deal and even declared himself an eponymous hero. He built some beautiful buildings like the library, the city gates, and my favorite monument here in Athens, Temple of the Olympian Zeus. That's what I'm standing in front of in the picture, it is absolutely beautiful! And huge.
We ate lunch, went to siesta for an hour and then we had a review session for our final exam. I know about everything and I don't think it will be too bad. I'm going to stay in and study tonight though. We're cooking our last Lyssipou 4 dinner tonight :( but it will be fun. Our final tomorrow is at 10-1130 and then we have a going away taverna lunch CYA is treating us to. Then I move into my new room! Saturday we're going to a lake about an hour away with beautiful beaches and springs that are supposedly healing.
Miss you all! It got up to 95 today and 100 yesterday...feels like Texas weather!
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