Sara (Greece) - KalhMera!

I finally have some time to get my ass on this blog and write, so here I am. Goodmorning from Greece, even though technically its 1:00 PM here, so not morning anymore. Oh well! My time here is getting progressively better and better. My classes have started to pick up in pace, and I've already traveled to Meteora. It's a town in the north of the Greek mainland where there are 600 year old monastaries. The monastaries aren't on the ground, but on these amazing cliffs that are hundreds of feet above the ground. If you have time, google image Meteora to see what I mean. Getting there, however, was crazy. I had to take a 7 hour bus with crack-induced bus driver. We were driving through these ridicously switchback-like roads, on a tour bus (so...huge) going easily 70 mph, with nothing but a little guard rail that came up to my knees to protect us from falling to our deaths. Fun.
But the trip itself, minus all of the minor driving and traveling complications, was amazing. I have never in my life seen scenery that gorgeous and I know I will never forget the experience! This weekend, I signed up with my roommates to see this crazy magician that's supposed to be good, sort of like the criss angel of Greece? Maybe? :-) After that, I'll be heading to Psiri with my roommates and some girls. Psiri is the dancing, drinking, bar capital of Athena, so it should be really fun. The rest of the weekend, I'll be traveling (again, we do a lot of traveling here!) with my roommates to a nearby island, once of the first ones in the cycladic chain! It, like Meteora is suppose to be beautiful. But then again, I'm finding very little in Greece that isn't.
The food here deserves an entire blog on its own. It is amazing. Amazing. I can't say it enough. And even though most Greeks don't eat until 9 PM at the earliest, the food is well worth the wait. Though, when my roommates and I actually try our hand at cooking instead of going out, things tend to get scary. Olivia and I attempted to make breaded zucchini a few nights ago. So we get the flour, zucchini, egg, bread crumbs and olive oil to fry it in. So far everything's fine. SO we make the Zucchini and taste the finished product, which, consequently was disgusting. It tasted as if someone had dipped the zucchini in sugar! It was like a desert! So, I asked what flour Olivia had used for the zucchini. Turns out the flour, (whose label is ALL in greek) was actually powdered sugar...yeah. We fried zucchini in powdered sugar and actually tried to eat it. Ugh
Alright, i've got to get going to my modern Greek class. I'll try and jump on this blog more often, even though I feel like my time here is crazy difficult. I hope you are all doing wonderfully, both at home and abroad! Gea sou!