the port of the taylor

Alright so here's whats happened in these first two and a half days:

My flight from Houston to Detroit was good. I mostly just read Child of God by Cormac McCarthy. It was pretty good. We got to Detroit, which has a pretty cool airport, and had about 20 minutes before we boarded the plane headed for Amsterdam. Then we sat on the plane for at least 45 minutes before we left. I sat next to Tillie on the plane and that was fun. Everybody had their own tv on the back of the seat in front of them and you got to pick what movie you wanted to watch. I watched Meet the Robinsons and The Jungle Book. It was great.

I think that they engineer these planes so that the seats are comfortable enough to sit in but it is impossible to get any sleep at all. I tried to sleep for at least 3 hours and got 10 minutes. Once I actually fell asleep they turned on the lights and fed us breakfast because it was 5 am Amsterdam time and I guess that's supposed to help us get used to the time change or something.

The airport in Amsterdam was really the first time that I had a chance to talk to anyone besides Tillie so that was fun. We all just hung out for about an hour before we left for Athens.

On the plane to Athens I sat between Ben and Neil. I finished reading Child of God. It was good. McCarthy has a very different style of writing, though. And it's not a religious book at all if you're wondering. A lot of people got sleep on this plane but the guy behind me was pretty huge so I couldn't really put my seat back and only got about 10 minutes of sleep in 2 minute increments.

We got to Athens and got our luggage after waiting at the wrong baggage claim station for a few minutes. Then we all hopped on a bus and drove to Porto Rafti while Tim Brinley, the program director, gave us a tour of the city. It's really a lot different than I expected. I was expecting it to be pretty secluded but our hotel is right in the middle of this busy street. Not like actually in the middle of the street with cars driving all around us but there are plenty of stores down to the left and right. Porto Rafti is right on the sea. It's about a 2 mile walk that we've made twice already.

The first night that we were here we (me, Molly, Mark, Ben, Waddell, and Roman) went out walking at night. We got a little lost. It was a lot of fun though. We ended up probably walking 4 and a half miles. Yesterday me, Jordan, Jane, Molly, and LaRell went down to the point, which is just a big piece of land that juts out into the sea. It's apparently a good place to go swimming. We didn't swim though. The water is too cold.

There are stray dogs everywhere. They follow us around. Last night we went to get ice cream and some of the dogs kinda attacked some lady leaving the store. Not like a vicious attack but they barked at her and annoyed her. Some of the dogs will stop traffic for you, which isn't safe at all. I think we had seven of them following us around last night.

I accidentally got a job here when I signed up to be a computer science major. I'm in charge of pretty much all things computers and they'll give me something like 5 euro a week. More if I actually do any work.

Classes started today and they were fine.

My room is good. My roommate is good. The food is good. None of the girls mentioned above is my girlfriend. I don't have a girlfriend. Things are good.

I realize that the second picture is a little bit more curvy than it should be. It's because it's taking a lot of space and scrunching it up into a little space. I tried to make it fit better but that's pretty much as big as I can make it and make it fit in this border.

By the way, Porto Rafti is "The Port of the Tailor"