Club Sandwich

Yesterday, Michael and I woke up at 1:00pm and called Courtney. The three of us went to Syntagma square where there was this place called "Golden Chopsticks". Courtney and I shared Gyoza. Mmmmm sooo good. I also had this Thai dish with Chicken, Beef and Pork. It was spicy and amazing. Then we all went to an electronic store called Public. I bought the movie, "Scent of a Woman". I've already watched some of it today. It's VERY good. Pacino is spec (spectacular). Courtney and I bought a late birthday present (a poster) for Michael. I paid for half of it by letting Courtney buy it for Michael and then buying a coffee for Courtney that was exactly half the price of the poster. I announced how awesome it was that with one purchase, I did a separate nice thing for two people at once. After Public, we went to this 7 story bookstore which was cool. There weren't many books in English but it was still fun.

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.