So, I’m now in Athens – arrived late last night. Feels really surreal to finally be here but it’s very exciting!
Weather is currently hot-ish (I’m guessing about 25C) and a bit muggy. Last night there was a huuuuuge thunderstorm and lots of rain. The rain reminded me of Manchester. The storm reminded me of Lesotho. Unfortunately, all these memories, the noise, the time difference (12pm in Athens = 10pm in UK) and the general buzz of adrenaline and excitement at finally being here kept me up quite late…
…and the hustle and bustle of having an appartment opposite a high school and on a fairly busy road meant that I was woken up fairly early. So I’m kinda tired at the moment. Will try and get lots of sleep tonight.
My appartment is fine but currently a bit empty – my two housemates arrive tomorrow evening and I still need to unpack and put photos and other things on the walls to make it a bit more homely. Will post a video sometime soon with a bit of a guided tour of the place.
So thanks for all your prayers about this – things are going well so far! Will post again in a few days when team life has started, but until then I’m going to be practising a bit of my Greek in cafes and exploring a bit.
Go go Sandell!!
Posted by Richard | September 15, 2009, 4:04 pmAm looking forward to the vid of Athens – you gotta try and teach us some of your newly learnt greek words as part of it!
Posted by Aaronos Popalopoulos | September 21, 2009, 11:23 pm