April 6, 2000

Notice how I have been writing in the most random places lately. The night before I ended up sleeping so well. I went to classes and then had to go and buy tickets so we can go to the village. I went to take a cab and no one would take me. About five empty ones must have said no to me. Anyway, I got there and got tickets for 12:15on Friday. We will be the first ones tog et there, but oh well. Then I took a cab home. I went to Vicky's house then. Natasha was there with the baby be he was sick so he was not that playful. I stayed there for a while and then came to school. Joanna had been at her aunts the whole itme. She brought me a package from Barbara. It was so cute. She sent me Teddy Grahams. Joanna's mom sent her a whole bunch of junk food too. Like we don't have any ehre. We went back to the apartment with Patty and sat for a while. Then we went to Mondial and got coffee. It is cute there but I thought it was kind of cold. We went back home and sat a little longer. We wanted to go back to Vicky's at night. Joanna went to her cousins and I went to Vicky. Aunt Adi was there and she drove me crazy with her worrying. First she was upset because she did not iron my clothes. She felt bad because she does not think I have time to do it. This all started because she saw me so tired yesterday. Then she told me she is going to call Aunt Noni because she did not know what to do with me. Let me mention that she turned my U of C sweatshirt blue. Then we started on the food hting. She forced me to go by Gus's. So I went there and he said he was ready to call dad. I told him not to do that. Then he wanted me to sit so he can watch me eat a kebab. I told him Joanna was waiting for me to eat and then he made them to go and said he was going to ask her if I ate. He even made them double and gave fries. Then he said he would give me a week to gain weight before calling dad. So I left and went to Joanna's cousins. I did not eat my kebab because I was fasting which they obviously did not care about. We sat there for a while. Raina called and we talked to her for a long time. When we got home we crashed. This morning I woke up and cleaned like crazy. Then I came to school and actually did some productive stuff so I plan to kind of enjoy myself the rest of the day. There is something so disgusting here in Greece that they call red rain. When it rains, everything gets this coating of dirt that is brown. All the cars look like they have never been washed. It is usually so thick that you cant even see the original color. I guess that is the pollution of Athens.