First Impressions

So I've been in Greece for a little more than 24 hours at this point, and it's definitely been interesting. Our apartment (I'll post pictures later when I have a chance to take them) is cute, but a little quirky. I'm already missing my American shower -- the one here is hand-held and you have to remember to turn the water heater on 20-40 minutes before you want to shower so there's hot water. There's three of us living there and we each have our own room and access to a balcony.

This morning, we went to the hospital to get the requirements for extending our visa taken care of. I got to have another TB test and a chest x-ray which involved stripping from the waist up and being pressed up against a very cold machine. I'm starting to be able to find my way around the neighborhood a little bit and found a fruit store, a fish store and a bakery already. Tomorrow we're going to the weekly fruit market to learn how to buy things.

We had our first intensive Greek lesson today and learned the alphabet, vowel and consonant combinations and a few Greek essentials: please, thank you, excuse me, yes, no, good morning, etc. I'm at the point where I can kind of sound out signs, but I'm not really sure what anything means.

I'm heading out for dinner now, at the typical Greek hour of 9 PM and I'm absolutely starving... hopefully we'll manage to order some delicious food!