Another two days

Yesterday, I spent a lot of time at Momus after class finished at four o'clock. I love my Mediterranean percussion ensemble teacher who's also my teacher for another class called Greece-Crossroads of Rhythms and Sounds. He's silly and will just start singing randomly sometimes. Yesterday he came up to me when music was playing and blew his flute right in front of my face. Then he did his hyena laugh afterwards. And he randomly brought up "La Vita e Bella" (Life is Beautiful) for no reason. I said that was like my favorite movie ever. We connected over that.

Last night, Michael and I hung out with Cody and Ricky in their room. We watched YouTube videos. Two of them were of Ricky's music. Go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llzJoDcn2Rk to hear my favorite song of his so far. I've only hear two of his songs but this one just gets me. I love his style. I kept telling him specific things about what I like in his song Eucalyptus (the one that I posted the link to) and he seemed happy about what I was saying. Made me happy.

Today, all of us except for Sadayah went to the croissant place. I told Christina that they were my friends after all of them had paid for their subs. She told me I should have said that earlier. She gave me my sparkling Fanta lemonade for free (my favorite soda here)! I mouthed, "Thank you" to her and I went upstairs to sit with the others. Cody asked me, "So where's your ho?" I asked what he said and he repeated it. I laughed and said, "That's the girl. The girl who sold you the subs." Mia said that she contemplated putting her arm around me and really flirting with me so Christina would be jealous. I walked downstairs first when we were done and I went up to Christina and said, "Have a good rest of the day," motioning an air cheers to her with my soda. She stopped me and said, "Next time, tell me that you are going to bring your friends because I can give a discount." I was excited and told Cody as we were walking out. He told me, "It looks like I'm getting subway a lot more often." He still calls it Subway which annoys me but I can't blame him cause it did used to be a Subway. However, now it is owned by Christina. I just wish she would go ahead and name the place something instead of just saying it used to be Subway. But hey, look at what I've got for my friends? A place where we can get discounts because of a crush! A failed crush at that...but you're right mom, everything works out for the best. Well maybe not the best but it still worked out in some way.

Voice lesson notes that I want to put down in stone:

- Taste the notes like they're chocolate cake

- Sing from the lowest part of the body

- Strong without pushing

- Make neck feel as soft as a Tempur-pedic Mattress

I forgot to say that on Tuesday night I was upset so I just went to McDonald's for dinner instead of coming home and having dinner with the other students here. It's ok cause sometimes people skip out. You just have to say you're not gonna be at dinner. Before I went to McDonald's (which was normal by the way - I've wanted to try it to see if it tasted any different) I went to a store called Public. Public is just like Best Buy but this one is even bigger. There's a whole floor meant for Videogames. In my pissy mood, this floor was a dream for me. I stayed there for about an hour. The time slipped away from me as I played racing games, this cool zombie game with the Wii gun and a weird frog puzzle game where I shot balls out of my mouth and tried to match them with the same colors. I have to admit, it felt very nice to play some video games again. I felt younger doing it. And closer to Whit haha. But anyway, when I got to McDonald's, I sat there and worked on a timeline for my musical. The story has changed since then but it seemed effective at the time. Well, until I started doubting the story. I realized I had to just jump in and really begin writing it instead of only outlining it. So that's what I did today for a while at school. I brought the computer and wrote at the school cafe for about an hour and a half. I'm the kind of guy that needs to experience it in the front lines to really do it right.

Tonight, we're going to dinner with a guy that flew here to get footage of all of us on this trip. He has a video camera and he actually video taped us a little this morning in my Greek Civ class. I'm not sure where we're going tonight but I don't think I have to pay for it! This weekend, he's coming with us on the trip to Nafplio for my Civ class. I'm so excited! It's supposed to be a beautiful little town. And it has a lot of history there. Our teacher said we're gonna see THE theater. The one that's been here since 300 B.C. He says the acoustics there are absolutely astonishing. I just remembered something I said to my teacher today as I was walking down the stairs behind him after class. I asked him, "Should we bring shoes tomorrow?" He looked at me with a puzzled expression. "I'm just kidding," I finished. He laughed and added, "No, don't bring your shoes. You won't need them." Hahaha I don't know why I said that but I guess I feel comfortable with him, humor-wise.