Yesterday was my first day of classes. They went alright I guess. We have a free shuttle to and from the school for free, but they only pick up at 10:20 am and drop you back home at 5:45. This means a long day on campus, or taking the city bus home for 90 euro. I took the city bus home the first day, just so I knew the route in case I did want to go home early anyday. It was ver interesting to say the least. I had a very old, smelly man keep getting closer to me. He had so much space yet decided he needed to be literally on top of me...I moved ASAP. My friend and I were talking in English & an old lady completely stops her conversation and turns around to STARE at us. Very noticably stare & awkwardly. We couldn't help but laugh. I also had a random guy stare at me for at least 15 minutes. I think he finally got the courage to try and speak English, and he asked me "China?", followed by "Japan?", and finally "Korea?". It was interesting, but I got home a lot earlier than 6 pm!
Classes here are so small. My first class, History of Ancient Greece, was all students from our study abroad group and there was only 6 of us. The second class was Human Resource Management, and there was about 18 in the class. I only had 2 other study abroad girls with me. They definitely separated themselves from us, except for the few local greeks that knew us already. The campus is so small, I had nothing really to do for the 4 hours I needed to wait for the free shuttle. My second day I had International Business with about 12 students, half greek, half american. Then I had Organizational Behavior, with 6 people. The classes are so small, I don't know how I feel about it yet! But, for the most part they seem pretty easy.
Apparently all of the books are like 40-60 euro, which I don't want to pay for! I got my Org Behanvior book for free from the teacher because my roommate & I are going to share, so that's one down! I'm asking a few ACT students from Greece if they have any old books they'd be willing to sell me or lend me. Otherwise, there is a rental service for old books other study abroad students left behind, for 5 euro for the whole semester. Hopefully I'll get lucky looking there.
I'm trying to clean up my room a bit, and make it look a little more homey. It's not going very well, I don't want to spend money on things I will most likely leave behind. But, I put up my Greece flag, and have some candles. My friend Becky studied here 2 years ago and suggested grabbing some Greek posters off the street (they're literally everywhere!) and putting them up in my room. I'm definitely going to do that as soon as it stops raining...But my room is so gross with hair everywhere. Mostly mine, of course. I shed like crazy.
Last, but not least, I went to the street market early today before class. It seems like a good place to go. We got instant soup stuff for 1,50euro & it looks like it'll last awhile! There's also homemade tortellini sold there. I'm giong to get that next time!
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