aek, se agapo!

I've started a bit of a Tips phenomenon here at the Artemis. For those of you who don't know what that is, it's just a basketball game. I'm not going to explain it now. We can play when I get back. We play all the time here, though. It's a lot of fun. I jammed my thumb real bad playing a few days ago and it's still a little sore but I'll get over it.

We went to church in Athens again on Sunday. I can't say with any honesty that the service was good because my whisper set broke again so I didn't get any of the translation. I'm sure it was great, though.

After church we went over to the National Archeology Museum for a tour. I'll just say it wasn't the best part of the day. It would have been great if they had just given us a few hours to walk around and look at things and take notes at our own leisure but instead they gave us a tour guide to tell us things we were perfectly capable of reading for ourselves. There were a few cool things but they were things that were really only cool to see, not talk about.

We had a few hours after the museum to do whatever until the football game (there is no soccer here) so most of us rode the metro (train, not bus) down to the Plaka to do some shopping. I bought an AEK shirt that I wore to the game, which was a lot better than last week. There's something to be said about having a crowd at a sporting event. AEK lost this week 1-0 to Olympiacos, who is kind of a cross town rival, but the crowd being excited made up for the loss. I don't think I ever mentioned that they won last week 3-0, but that's what happened.

We leave tonight around 11 to head to Israel. We'll be there for about a week and then go to Egypt for a week. This is the part of the semester that really draws people to HUG so I'm getting excited. Anyone that knows me knows what it looks like when I get excited. If you don't then just picture me normal and that's pretty close. I'm excited in my head, though.

I don't know if I'm going to be taking my computer on this trip. I have room in my bag but since so many people are asking me if I'm taking it I might not. I will be making a few posts when I'm gone but they probably won't show up until I get back, especially if I don't have a computer to submit them.

I don't have anything clever to go out on. Sorry.