I just got back from another delicious dinner. We went into the first restaurant we found, Zorba’s, and had a great time. The owner spoke very good English and we had a great meal. I ordered another Greek salad and an order of chicken souvlaki (kabobs). The waiter brought us some wonderful olive paste to go with our bread. It was made of out kalamata olives and I told Dad that I would probably eat them till my tongue turned into one single acid bump. They come with the salads and are even served with breakfast, so I am in heaven here. The local wine here is very good. I had a glass with dinner and enjoyed it very much.
This afternoon I poked around Sitia a bit. Of course, most shops were closed because of the time (4:00pm), but I did find one little market shop open and I bought a few packages of Greek yogurt. The hotel where we are staying has a mini fridge and yogurt is a great snack when we get back from our site-seeing.
The night life is picking up. It’s all locals now, and the café where I am sitting seems to be a fairly popular place.
Tomorrow morning we don’t leave till 9am, so the plan is to get up early and do my studying in the morning before we leave. I usually am too tired to do any serious work in the afternoon. That and I get the itch to explore a little bit. Also, getting up early and getting mentally stimulated helps me not fall asleep on the bus when we drive to the different sites.
Thanks for reading and please comment or email me: elshevock@davidson.edu!
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Bean,
ReplyDeleteI got pub. Thanks. You seem to be adapting to the local schedule. It isn't tourist season, so does that help? What do they think about Americans?
I love you,
Dad
Well, they just give us funny looks because there are so many of us. Yeah, mostly they just seem confused as to why we could possbily be there, a doubt school ever really comes up as a reasonable choice. I haven't experienced any anti-American vibes. Hopefully, it will stay that way. Actually, when we were in Egypt, we got a lot of "Go Obama!" when they realized where we were from. That was cool to have people be excited about your president and to see the effect that our elections have on the rest of the world.
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