We got another late start this morning, thankfully. We were all exhausted after yesterday. I almost didn’t make breakfast because I was talking to jenna’s boyfriend on skype. She just walked out of my room while working on her project and I thought she as coming back, so I answered when he called. And then she never came back. but we bonded over our mutual love of jenna for half an hour, so it was nice.
i borrowed one of erica's tube tops to wear today because my shoulders were just a little too burned to wear a normal shirt. i figured that it would heal faster the less i irritated it, which is also why i carried my backpack around like it was my baby for the rest of the day.
after a quick breakfast, we had a pretty long class on the porch of the resort's main building. it was a beautiful setting for the rest of the presentations. after we finished those up, i ran to the lobby bathroom to brush my teeth because i hadn't gotten the chance to do that yet. whoops. then we loaded up the bus and drove down to the port. we had a few hours to wait so we all left our stuff on benches and walked around. there really wasn't much to see. no shops or anything. this is why i didn't get any postcards from mykonos. we were all pretty hungry, and all there was was a little tarp stand with various chips and candy. they also had a tomato and cheese panini, so we pretty much cleaned them out of those.
after waiting and listening to music and talking and reading and waiting some more, our GIANT ferry arrived. it's one of those million-story ferries. not really, but it was big for a ferry. we grabbed a bunch of seats at tables near the fast food restaurant. at some point, about three soccer teams worth of 8 year old boys sat in the same area. they would come over and stare at meghan doodling and yell and were all sorts of annoying. it didn't help that the majority of them had mullets or rat tails. not cute, little boys.
this was a super long ferry ride - around 5 hours. we were all getting pretty hungry, so i tried to order a mr. chicky sandwich (yeah, i did feel ridiculous saying that out loud), but they were out of chicken. fast food burgers are yucky, so i just got fries and frowned a lot.
oh and every time this ferry turned to pull into a port, it would shake like something that shakes really badly. (best analogy ever!) the ceiling would visibly bounce and the lights would rattle and i just felt like we were going to sink and all die. every time. but we didn't, thankfully!
we got into athens pretty late in the evening... well past dinner time. we got on the tiniest bus of the entire trip so far to take us to the hotel. my chair was broken and couldn't stay upright, so i was basically laying in jacee's lap. but it was a short, graffitied trip to the hotel, which was beautiful and right in the heart of athens. the majority of us went to dinner at a restaurant a block away from the hotel. they brought us bread with this pink paste to spread on it. looked weird, but tasted amazing. garlicky, vinegary, potato-y... no idea what it was or if any of those things were in it.
we had a quick, slightly terrifying walk back to the hotel before going to bed.
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