Back!

Got back last night.

I'm uploading my funny Greek dog video on YouTube. Whit will be home in less than three hours!

Psyche Out!

That wasn't the last blog in Greece! THIS IS! That was accidental capitalization but whatever.

Cody, Ricky and I just had an awesome time playing pool and darts. I did VERY well at darts. Well, the third game I sucked but most of all, I did fantastically. Ricky made this really funny comment when I did this really messed up, weird stance while hitting the pool ball. Instead of laughing or saying he thought it was weird, he said, "Cool! How do you do that?!" It kiiiilled me.

It was a perfect guy's night to celebrate the whole study abroad adventure. Still Cody ended our "awesome trip" cheers with "TO BITCHES" hahaha which is what we always toast to but what Ricky said about how great the trip was stuck with me.

Great farewell. I have to wake up in 5 hours or so. I don't give a flying fuck.

Tomorrow!!!

I leave at 10 am tomorrow. My flight is at 2 pm so I'm leaving early to be safe.

Finished recording Poor Jones today. Spent all afternoon doing that and recording real piano for some other tracks. We also talked to Petros down in the lobby. He told us that in some cultures, when they "fuck" they keep a compass with them to make sure they don't point towards Mecca. HAHAH.

I'm going out to play pool with Ricky and Cody!

THE LAST BLOG IN GREECE! CHEERS! Or in Greek terms, YAMAS (phonetically)!

Ahhhh

I am shwaisted right now. I won't throw up but I'm definitely drunk. I was just out with Cody, Ricky and Michael. Zoe showed up later after hanging out with Giorgos, a Greek guy from the Nakas conservatory. They saw the movie, Avatar. I thought I knew what the movie was about but I guess I didn't. I thought it had people with super powers in it but I guess there were blue men in it, whatever that means.

Tomorrow is the last day in Greece. I have to be at the school at 11. That is insane. Ricky said tonight that he made new friends in Greece. I told him I was glad he came to Greece and he said the same about me. Awesome.

We watched a lot of a pretty bad movie about Alexander today in our last Greek Civ class and then most of us had lunch at a Gyro place. I had a Greek salad but it wasn't as filling as I wanted ti to be. The reason was because I had a Greek salad when I was little at Jimmy Gonzales's house, his dad made Greek salad and from then on, I wanted to go to Greece. Well, that and the Greece travel video convinced me. My family and I were watching travel videos before we went to Tahiti in about 2001 and Greece was a possibility. I don't know if they knew but Greece blew me away.

See you tomorrow. I record at 11 and then I'M DONE! SEE YOU SOON FAMILY!

Stoddy.

Happy Birthday Whit!

24 big ones. Hot damn!

Big ass day today. Recording from 6 til 10:15 at a recording studio with Petros. All I recorded of my song were vocals and those ended up not working cause the mike was buzzing. So that was really annoying cause now I'll have to record them tomorrow at the engineer's house. The other recordings went well though, on which I played piano. Ricky got fed up at the end when he was being forced to sing and play guitar on a time constraint. I totally understood. It's awesome how he and I are joking around more and more. Maybe it was because in front of everyone at our last big dinner before Mia left for home early, we were all admitting things about each other, first impressions and such and I pointed at him and said I was SO happy when he first starting joking with me about "funny situations". Cody and I are actually getting along a LOT better now. Bowling actually brought us together considerably as a matter of fact! It was funny. I think it was because we were competing and we can relate in that way haha.

I wrote a random song for Whit and sent it to him just before writing this blog. He's gonna love it cause it has a big inside joke in it. It isn't about him or even about his birthday but it's FOR his birthday. It's called "Behind My Eyes". Attention readers, don't divulge this information once the song is received by the man himself.

Two more full days in Greece. I can't believe it. I actually made it through this semester alive.

This week has turned out to be MUCH busier than I anticipated but that's cool. It's definitely packed the trip with even more meaning. Plus, the more we all go through, the closer we get. At least I think we've gotten closer. Hey, maybe that's really why Cody and I are getting along. We've actually been sharing musical communication rather than only sarcastic words and the occasional beer.

Seth Rogen

It's 10:40 am at this moment. I wanted to write down my dream, or at least as much as I could remember.

DREAM-

I am in a movie theater. Somehow I end up inside the movie.

I'm in some kind of mansion with a lot of slanted floors. A cleaning crew is going around, dropping bags of cleaning supplies on the floor. I think outloud - "Just like a video game!" and shift perfectly to the left, right or forward to avoid the mounds of clumpy cleaning material all over the floor. The truth was, I didn't want to get that stuff on my socks and get all wet. A guy about my age, says, "Push A!" and I realized I have a controller in my hand. I push it but it doesn't do much. I realize I should have started singing cause that's like my super power, music.

I arrive at the top of the castle, which is where the main lady lives, the head woman. It's risky being around her cause she is like the mafia leader, I am thinking. In the middle of a conversation with me, she pulls out a gun and I'm sure that I'm about to die. The gun turns out to be filled with water and she starts pouring it into a hole where her left bicep is. She continues talking to me like it's no big deal. It is then that I realize she is not human, but a robot. So now I'm in even more of a predicament; I'm standing by the head mob leader who also happens to be a robot. I decide that telling her I am a human might make things worse since she clearly must assume I'm a robot too. I right then and there make up a story about me being a robot. This was an interesting because I really was thinking on the spot -

"You know what's crazy. I'm actually one of the most advanced robots out there, ahead of my time. My model is basically from the future because I'm so advanced and no one has heard of my type." She gives me a impressed look and listens while setting up some kind of light fixture, three lamps hanging from the wall at random spots with straw sticking out of them.

"You know, I actually feel kind of stupid sometimes," I continue with my story.

"Yeah, you feel stupid, of course," she interrupts understandingly.

"Well, because I'm more real than others. I started younger and am able to learn like a human. You know how those old computers sometimes are easier to understand, less frustrating?" She nods. "They solve the problem quicker. There's just one route to get there."

She did not hear the last thing I say and takes out some kind of blow torch, scorching the straw light fixtures with it. The fire blasts over the wall and when she turns off the torch, the lights are left flaming, giving light to the room. We walk out of the kitchen and she tells me not to go back in there without her. I catch the eye of her son on the way into another section and he widens his eyes, mouthing the words, "Do NOT go in the kitchen, EVER. She will KILL you." He waves his hands like an airplane runway guy would, motioning a plane not to land. I nod to him, promising not to go into the kitchen.

I then notice three robot dogs scampering around the room. They don't have bodies, just heads. One of them is a bulldog head. I assume they are robots, haha. I go over to them and say hi. The lady goes away for a while so I stay with the dogs. They start play biting me and then walking all over my head.

Suddenly, I heard a voice from one of the dog heads say, "We have figured out who you are, your machine history, everything." I realize that what they have found out is not my machine history, but my human history. I know then that I have to get out of the castle because my life is in danger. The dogs start biting me viciously, some attacking me from the back. I am trying to guard my neck with my hands and doing my best to have them bite my arms and hands instead of anything else.

I start having a conversation with the bulldog head. He says he must kill Seth Rogan, the guy who played the main actor in the first movie of this series (the robot series I guess). I somehow can see the movie posters of the series and the first one shows Seth smoking, puffing out marijuana, which is covering his face in the picture. I'm not surprised that the part in the series about smoking was played by Seth. I tell the bulldog not to kill Seth because he is actually really funny. The bulldog starts to be a little doubtful because he seems to like the idea that Seth is funny.

That's when I woke up.

A Bowl of Fun

Last night the boys went out to Sutsu, a bar we often go to, and Alex was with us, A greek student from Nakas. Ricky and I talked for a long time at the end of the night, especially at a different bar called Flower, and Cody and Michael ended up talking extensively. That is usually how it turns out. I made sure to include Alex at one point when Ricky and I were talking about Godfather. He was sort of the fifth wheel and I know how that feels.

Ricky said we should play together in Boston. HELL YES! I said I was honored he asked me. He said he was honored I accepted. I then told him he had a better voice than I do so I should sing harmony over him. He said, "Are you serious?"

It was an awesome musician to musician bonding moment.

Also last night, at the first bar, I actually went over to a girl that I wanted to talk to. I thought she was the third wheel cause her friend kept dancing with this other guy. I was so nervous but Cody kept saying I should do it. Ricky said, "You have four more days left," and Alex ended up coming over to me when I was sitting there on a bar stool, waiting for the right thing to say. He asked me if I needed help. I told him it was ok but then said it would be cool if he helped. He ended up walking away without helping me, telling me that I could call him if I wanted to. The girl luckily sat nearby me on her bar stool. I asked her, "Milate aglika" which means, "Do you speak English?" She said she didn't speak Greak, haha. So I said, "Neither do I!" and we started talking. Then she apologized and said she had to go back to her group and did a switch with her friend who had a pimple right below her lip. Ew, sorry. I talked to her for a while. She was very animated with her gestures, bobbing up and down when ever she didn't know something and out turning her hands while doing a clown face at the same time. After we finally introduced ourselves after about a ten minute long talk, I said I wanted to go back to my group. She seemed a little disappointed but honestly, I was interested in her friend, who, I found out from the pimple lip girl, had a boyfriend. Hmmm that's why the guy I thought was pimple's boyfriend was eyeing me, haha. He was probably wondering why the hell I was hitting on his girl. Anyway, I felt great that I actually talked to the unbelievably hot girl (she told me she was German! That's why I liked her. Explains it all). It was a HUGE accomplishment and I owe it to Ricky, Cody and Alex. But mostly I owe it to this trip, myself and the fact that she sat nearby me without knowing it. Good going self and random occurrences!

Today we all went bowling. It was AMAZINGLY fun. At least I know I had tons of fun. We went to Agios Dimitrios which is at the end of the red line in Athens. It was so nice also cause I felt so relaxed after figuring out all my bank stuff. WOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!

I won the first game and Ricky won the second. I got second place the second time though.