April 9, 2000

Let me first mention some other details that I noticed in the village. First, there is this house that put up a really tacky fence. It has all of these funny gargoyles on it. Then, they put up garbage cans which is really a good idea but everyone is upset because they say Village of Thesprotiko on them  instead of Papadates. Then we noticed that they took down all the signs that said anything about Papadates. It is kind of as if they do not exist anymore. Anyway. let night we went straight to Aunt Irene's house. The whole entire family was there just sitting around and talking. Joanna had an uncomfortable situation where she said she wanted yogurt but did not really that she would be the only one eating it. She felt weird even though no one noticed and I felt kind of bad. I was so tired that I took a nap on Angela for a while. At about 1 we headed to the bar. It was the typical scene. I was kind of bored and annoyed because Joanna and Kathy were carrying on their own conversations. I was also really tired. We led at about 3 and decided to got to Matt's house. I confide up tot the heater and was falling asleep. At one point I almost fell off of the bed too. Finally we decided to go home. I went straight to bed because I wanted to walk up and do my paper which I did do with much difficulty. Jim came over too and we sat and had coffee. I got a call from Uncle Chris saying that he was going to be at the cafe. So I went down to see him and Joanna was going to come down when it was time to leave. We were originally having some problems getting tickets but then Dina's friend came to the rescue. He got gotten some for free and he gave them to us and Maddie went there and reserved the seats. I wanted to leave with the night one but Aunt Noni would not hear of it. We ran into a bunch of Aunts and Uncles at the restaurant and since I did not order anything, the only topic of conversation was how I should eat. Right as I was about to leave, Uncle Ted came with George. We left and Jim drove us to the bus. We spent the whole first hour driving around to the little villages. Everyone was being so cray and impatient. I spent the entire bus ride doing my paper so it was a long one. We reached the station at 8:30. It was the craziest place in the world. The line for the cab reached around the end. We stood there for a while and realized it would take forever. Not only that but one one would want to take up because the center was closed. Today was election day, by the way, which explains all of this commotion. We got out of the line to try the bus. We ran into Laura from school. We got on a bus fairly quickly. It dropped us of at Omonia and from there we took the Metro. We finally reached home at 10. I sat and finished that damn paper that is due tomorrow and now I want to sneak in two hours of sleep before I get up to leave for Thessalonika. This is the last entry in the journal. I am so proud of myself. I might sneak in here to add more things about the village but this is more of less it. It was nice writing in you!