Tuesday, September 29, 2009
What did I do today?
Monday, September 28, 2009
Updated Greek Song
Off Track
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Club Sandwich
Mia, Zoe, Cody, Ricky and his two sisters, Michael and I went out last night at around 11:30pm We hung out in this really small club for about three hours, dancing more and more as the night went on. I kept saying how I thought that I was in a subway car club because it was so jam packed. It was a club sandwich. So many times this waitress had to say "Sorry!" which every time sounded like she was yelling "Stoddy!" and squish through the croud. I was CRAAAAZY last night, dancing my ass off with my friends. I made friends with some Greek guys and eventually went over to this girl at the end of the room. Cody told me I had to go hit on a girl. I was like, "NO, I don't just hit on random people," but I still went and tried to dance with some. I found this Spanish girl who was cute and started dancing alongside her and her friend she was shimmying with. They were laughing as I was dancing but not looking at me but it was scary cause I knew that they were laughing at me. Finally, the Spanish girl grabbed by hands and let me dance with her. I did my crazy dancing and they were laughing. Then this weird ugly, older girl kept tapping me and bumping her ass against me cause I guess she wanted me. I humored her for a while and danced with her. She turned around and wanted me to grind against her so I did that a little but not that strongly. I turned back to the cute Spanish girl and continued dancing. We talked and that's when I found out she was Spanish. I said I was from Minnesota and we danced a little more. I told her I was going to take a trip to Spain (I'll explain this a little later in this blog) and she said that was cool but didn't seem too enthusiastic. I was afraid she was thinking I was trying to somehow make it so I could meet up with her there when I visited Spain. I'm sure that's not what she was thinking but I'm always thinking of excuses for girls not to like me. Suddenly, she asked me if I was here with friends. I told her I was and the ugly girl bumped me again. I humored her again with another short dance but quickly turned back to the Spanish girl. She leaned over to me and asked me if I could go back to my group. I wasn't sure if I heard her right so I asked her what she said. She repeated, "Are you going back to/with your friends?" I assumed this meant she wanted me to go away and hang with my friends. I'm not sure, now thinking back to it, what she was exactly saying. I'm actually thinking she could have been asking me if I had to go back with my friends and she was wondering if I wanted to go back with her but that was just Cody's theory. He told me that I always had to assume the best with girls, that if a girl says, "I hate you," that means, "I hate the way you dance." Haha, I only laughed when he told me that but started worrying that maybe she was hitting on me. Cody did get me thinking about how I was pretty much waiting for her to say something negative so I assumed the worst at that moment. Let's kind of hope she was telling me to go away because that just makes me too sad to think I passed up such a cute girl. Although, I might not have known what the hell to do if I had gone home with her anyway.
Yesterday before I went out to the club I bought a eurail ticket so that I could take European trains from anywhere to anywhere else for a period of five travel days (not in a row). The days of travel can take place any time within a period of two months. You can also pick up to three countries to travel between. So on my first break from school in Athens from the 22nd of October to the 28th, I'm flying to Rome, Italy (I found a really cheap ticket!) and then after a couple days I'm taking a train to France. After a couple days there, I'm gonna hop on over to Spain to practice my Spanish. Then I'll have to take a plane back to Athens. But that I have not bought yet. And also, I have to find places to stay in these countries. I haven't figured that out yet.
It's actually 7:10pm now but my blog thinks I'm in California or something so if I change the time to what it is here, it waits to publish it until like 10 hours later. I could be wrong but pretending it is 9:00am seemed to work.
Me.
Friday, September 25, 2009
Mission Impossible (Blog Is Rated PG-13)
So, Wednesday, before I went to the strip club with two girls and other guys from our group, I jammed with Zoe (she plays flute). It was SO fun cause Zoe is really good and for some reason we just click. Flute and piano mix well I realized.
At the strip club, the girl that I got a lap dance from was the first girl we saw get up and strip when we got there at the beginning of the night. She danced to the Titanic theme song. She was definitely my "favorite" one but I wasn't thinking she would be on my lap later. The people at this place were really weird though. This old witch lady with big boobs, probably fake, came over to us and was trying to figure out how big our dicks were by checking our hands. Also she was pinching our nipples to see how aroused we were. They kept asking us if anyone wanted a lap dance. All the while this Nigerian woman was sitting on my lap, trying to get me interested in her I guess. It was not working haha. The witch tapped my roommate's crotch like three times. That was awkward. Finally, while she was leaving, Witch asked again if anyone wanted a dance and my roommate pointed at me kind of as a joke. But I decided to just do it. Witch then came over to me and asked me who my favorite was. She asked me if I liked black or white. I embarrassingly said, "white" cause that titanic girl was white. So that girl ended up coming over and Witch asked me if she was the one I wanted. It was like I was shopping at a sex store for a real blow-up doll. VERY awkward. So I just kind of said, "Yah," and looked down while I said it. I couldn't look at her like a product. So she took me in this back area and started rubbing against me. Then Witch forced my hand on Titanic's boob, saying "Touch, touch and kiss if you want". I was NOT going to kiss. And touching was very weird for me. To be honest, it was not very enjoyable at all. And I think her boobs were fake. They had a strange plastic bounce back effect to them that I didn't remember experiencing in previous encounters with boobs. Not something I'll be doing again.
So on a different date, yesterday I gave the croissant girl a CD with Hot Damn Got a Woman, Avery and Dream With Me on it. She said, "Oh good! Good! I'll listen to it!" while saying good like food is pronounced. It was cute. And then I got a free cookie from her and she said it was from the older lady there. That was nice but slightly weird haha. All I said to her was "Poli Kalo" (very good) after she made me a smoothie. I guess the older lady likes me haha.
Today, I saw the girl again. We were talking and laughing. It was fun. I saw one of those chocolate croissants that I love (AHHH so good!) after having a whole 12-inch sub. I told her I wanted it and she laughed, saying "Now?" I told her that I would wait a little. She laughed again and said, "What, in 1 minute, 2 minutes, 3 minutes?" from now, kind of making fun of me. I told her that I would order it in a minute and twenty seconds. She said ok haha. About 10 minutes later, I went up and said, "It's about time. It's been one minute and twenty seconds about 8 times." She thought that was funny. So I got the croissant and she said, "Thank you" kind of quietly. I said, "What?" And she said, "What?" back to me cause she didn't know what I said. I finished the confusion with "Did you say thank you?" She laughed and nodded, then continued "Thank you so very very much." Hahahaha so I said, "You are VERY welcome." She also asked me how old I was. I found out I'm older than she is! She's 20. I thought she was like 24. So I thought we were really hitting it off. And then she made tea for herself and made one for me. FOR FREE! Awesome. It was really sweet. The tea was sweet and she was too obviously. I kept stalling on hitting on her cause I planned on asking her what she was doing this weekend and if she wanted to have coffee with me. But then a whole throng of Greek girls came in and ordered stuff. That was interesting haha. I was surrounded by girls. Then this manager guy was there too. So annoying. I didn't want to have an audience when I hit on her haha. Finally, I decided to face my fears after the girls left even though some guys were still in the room. I went up to her with a water and said, "I'll get this to go." She laughed and put it in a bag. Then I finally uttered the words that seemed to weigh my tongue down into the bottom of my mouth, drowing it - "Ti kaneis to savatokiriako" (What are you doing this weekend?) She said, "I'll be here. Then I'll probably be sleeping cause I don't feel too well. I added the next sentence, "Tha itheles na pas yia cafe," (Do you want to go for coffee?) Then my world caved in.
But before I continue, I'll also write about what happened on Wednesday when I saw her. She asked me to write my name down cause she wasn't sure what I was saying. Then she showed me how to spell her name. It was cool. After that, she randomly goes, "You're name is Stoddy. And my name is possible." I looked at her strangely and said "What?" She repeated what she said. I showed that I didn't get it with my wrinkled brow so she blurts, "I was just kidding, haha!" I still didn't get it at ALL. But I didn't want her to think I didn't like joking around. So my brain was swimming trying to think of some way to come back to her. So I announce, "Well...my name is IMpossble. Have you seen the movie Mission Impossible." Yeah, right, another failure. She said she had seen it but then adds, "But I'm the positive kind - possible." I said "OHH ok, I get it," but still I didn't really get it. After I sat down, I thought about it and figured that she might have been coming on to me. I thought maybe she meant to say her name was "Available." I was hoping that at least. So when I gave her my CD yesterday, just before I left, I said in a shaky tone (cause I was DAMN nervous), "Hey possible, is it possible for me to give you something this time instead of getting something from you?" It was pretty smooth but I didn't say it very confidently haha. I got some advice from my friends here in what to say. Hahaha it was ridiculous sounding though.
Previous story continuation - after I hit on her...
"No, I'm afraid I can't. But I'll see you on Monday?"
I said, "Probably," and said thank you and left. I was sure that she rejected me until later when I thought about it and maybe she just wants to get to know me better. Also, she was feeling sick. That could have been the reason completely. But I went to get a piano room and recorded a song on the flip video camera to let out my feelings. My voice teacher sensed I wasn't feeling too well and asked me how I was doing. I kept saying, "I'm good," but she must be great at reading people cause she seemed to doubt me. So I told her I was having girl problems. She told me that Greek girls are very friendly so it's sometimes kind of deceptive. But she said to keep going there, to keep showing my face and things might change. She also asked me if I have always felt like I'm from a different planet cause she always felt the same way about herself. I said yes and told her I knew exactly what she meant. Haha it was cute of my teacher. She's an amazing teacher too. I'm lucky. I hit the jackpot with classes here.
Silly me.
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Shorter and Shorter
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Wowza
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
New [Greek] Song!
Monday, September 21, 2009
Piano lesson, History of Music Lesson and Perfection
Videos
Sunday, September 20, 2009
Aegina
DANCE
Last night, we all went out to Monastiraki with the desire to go clubbing. By the end of the night, I was dancing with a 5 or so group of Greek people about my age and about 3 German kids. Then Mia, Cody, Michael and Zoe joined in. It was a blast. At the end of the night, Cody, Michael and I walked home while the others, those who stayed out as late as we did, took a taxi. We thought the metro ran all night on Fridays and Saturdays. GUESS NOT! I walked home as sweaty as a fish.
Friday, September 18, 2009
Caught in the Rain
Thursday, September 17, 2009
The Plaka
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Socrate's Game
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Planning
Monday, September 14, 2009
4
Sunday, September 13, 2009
The Beach of Living
Saturday, September 12, 2009
Forgot to say...
Short but most definitely sweet
Friday, September 11, 2009
A Sitcom Night
Thursday, September 10, 2009
O Mikros Prigipas
Out tonight!
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
My first full day in Greece
Dinner was great! I had Mythos which is a Greek beer! It didn't taste too distinguished, just a little more sweet, I would say. I brought my little Greek phrase book and that caused some laughs when the guy next to me, Cody used the "pick-up lines" section to "hit on" one of the Greek faculty members at Nakas who was sitting at the end of the table. It was funny haha. The head of the school hugged everyone at the end and kissed all the girls' cheeks. I voiced the fact that I was upset he didn't kiss my cheek to Mia next to me haha. On the way back, a 25 minute walk, I talked to Courtney which was also very fun. We talked about jetskiing, waterskiing and other water sports for some reason. Here and out,
Stoddy.
Dinner tonight!
I thought that it'd be so funny if I told that to a waiter while pointing at the
menu, all the while with my innocent unknowing face on. Speaking of
ordering, I'm going to dinner tonight with all the people on this trip. We
all have been hanging out a lot. Today we actually went out for lunch and
dessert and now we're going to dinner with the head guy of Nakas
Conservatory in Greece. Earlier today there were a lot of awkward
silences because no one knew what to ask him about the school. I can tell
he's the kind of guy who likes to be asked things so I'm gonna tell him
my travel plans and ask him to give me suggestions about the best way to
do it. This is what I've decided to do (the plans might change but it doesn't
hurt to have a goal). I'm goin' island hopping! I'm gonna go to the closest
one which is only aboutan hour and a half away by boat and then hop all
the way along on different islands until I get to Santorini, my ultimate
desired island. I might go with a few people. I know others want to see
some island action. But I'm thinking they'll like my idea of seeing around
8 or nine of them! All right, dinner time!
Things are getting easier :)
I've said "Efharisto" (the English character way of spelling it) to a lot of
peopleand they replied right away. It means thanks. They said right back
to me, "Parakalo" which means "You're welcome". Just that little
communication has made me feel so good. You were right Whit.