New People!

Zoe, Ricky, Cody, Michael, Mia and I went out to a show last night and saw this guy, George (the English version of his name) play guitar. He's really good! The band was not great. But the piano player was also good. They're both from Nakas. George is really nice and he said he has an album he wants to show me. He also said he's really interested in hearing my stuff too! I cannot remember the piano player's name at the moment. After the show, George got us a taxi. He spoke to the drivers and told them where to go in Greek so we had no idea where we were going. Zoe, Ricky, Michael and Mia took one and Cody and I took the second one right behind them. They took us WAY out. A 20 euro drive. Everyone was freaking out in different degrees. Cody was freaking at first cause he had to pee really really bad when we were in the taxi. When we got out and realized we were in a kind of sketchy, random ass area in the middle of nowhere, that's when things started getting more interesting. Mia started acting like Simba if you told him he couldn't be king. Well, a girl Simba. For a while, Cody, some others and I were singing Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody to pass the time. Zoe started feeling guilty cause she felt responsible since she agreed to let George send us away in taxis. But we all agreed on letting him do that. It wasn't her fault. It was the taxi driver's fault. And I even said to him earlier that I wanted to go out. I kept saying to Zoe, "Don't worry, it will be fine." Fiiiinally Geroge shows up, really afraid that he just turned us against him. I assured him it was ok and told him I still was having fun. We headed to the area that we were supposed to go to and it was completely empty. Ghost town. So George was pretty much failing with the whole show-the-Americans-around thing. But I made sure to let him know everything was good. We ate at this amazingly good gyro place which eased the tension of the night.

Today, even though I didn't have any classes, I went to the school at around 2 pm and wrote music until about 8:30. The time slipped by me. It was 6:30 before I knew it and Michael texted me that they were eating dinner at the hotel at 7. I had to tell him that I wasn't able to make it. So I stayed for 2 more hours and then ate at Syntagma (a metro stop pretty near the school). But anyway, I wrote a whole song today. The first song of my musical!

I walked home while listening to Nick Drake which was nice. I had a moment of happiness hit me (a bubble of happiness as I like to call it) while I was walking. I felt so accomplished and excited for what is to come on this awesome trip. And I was looking around at all these people living their normal lives. So weird that life goes on everywhere. And it's more similar than you think even though it seems so different at first. We pretty much all want the same thing. No regrets. Love. To feel accomplished. The list could go on for a while but I believe my point has been made. Haha.

I got home, now with more ideas about my musical, changed around my song a little bit that I had just written, finished watching Corrina Corrina and then exchanged a couple messages with this girl I met on the plane coming here. We were on the same flight to Zurich and we got along really well. Now we're talking on Facebook and what's so funny is that she's studying abroad in Vienna and she'll be there while I'm visiting Paula! (I've decided to visit Paula for the entirety of the November break instead of during any of the October break because it would cost too much and also I really don't have the time for it). But But Sarah, the girl I met on the plane, is going on a trip as well so she'll only be in Venice for about a day while I'm there but still. That would be cool if I saw her. Oh and she will be in Athens at some point! I don't know yet if she'll be here before I leave for the November break but oh my god that would be funny if we met up in both cities.

I leave for Rome on Thursday!!!!

And I'm SOOOOOO excited that I'll just be able to chill in Vienna for a four day weekend with Paula in November. What a change from being on my own for this first break. It will feel nice to know that someone else is in charge and can take me around. Oh, I forgot to say that Ricky and Cody might go to Rome for the whole October break so I might be able to hang out with them while I'm in Rome the first two nights. Then I'll take off to do my own thing! I'm going from Rome to Florence to Venice, then to Paris, then to Barcelona. In Venice, I'm seeing a opera of the best love duets from different operas and then in Barcelona I got tickets to a film festival! I get to choose like 6 films to see from about 25 different ones playing while I'm there. Ohhhhh yes. AND I forgot to mention, in Rome I made reservations to go see the Colosseum and then the Vatican!