January 18, 2000

Today was exhausting. I ended up waking myself up on time in the morning but then I convinced myself that I could sleep more. When I finally did get up, I had to convince myself to take a shower and when I finally did, I realized that there was no hot water. So I made my way down to the school and had ot wait to get registered. My schedule is nice because somedays I have mornings off and some days I have afternoons but I need to be there at 9:00 am every days which I know will be a problem. They gave us our books too which we do not need to pay for after all except for our Greek book which is 11,000. But there are so many of them. I grabbed half of them and went hiking to the apartment. T hen I grabbed my school bag, went back to the school and back to the apartments. I totally collapsed! I stopped at the little grocery store too and got some fat free yogurt which was pretty good. My attempt to make oatmeal failed because I could not wait around for water to boil on that stove. And our refrigerator is turning everything into ice. Then I actually made my way over to Vicky on foot which was weird and confusing but I found the way so I am very excited. I sat there for a while. I called Eva too and it does not seem like I will be getting my luggage any time soon. We had to meet at the school at 6:30 and they had an introduction and questions session. Nadia told me in the middle of it that Joanna came. She had a horrible flight and her luggage is not here yet. Then we went for our dinner at a restaurant. The food was ok. We were in Rea's group and she is just really nice but then again, they all are. We left kind of early because Joanna was exhausted. When we reached the apartment, we did a bunch of furniture rearranging then we just bummed. Raina wrote me a really sad note. She keeps thinking that she is going to be replaced, but she is right when she ways there is only one Raina. Two random things - all the cabs were on strike today. It was weird being in Athens with no cabs but I did not notice until someone pointed it out. On a wall was written "Klinton go home".