Guilty

I studied more Greek today. I also had a medium thin crust cheese pizza at pizza hut. It was one of the cheapest there but still, I feel guilty. And a big reason I didn't want to do it was because I knew I would have to blog it later. So my hunger trapped me. Does it help to say it was unbelievably good? So much better than the last time I went there? I hope, cause it was stellar.

Halfway through Greek Crossroads of Rhythm and Sound, we all went down to the basement and felt each other. Not really. What we ACTUALLY did was play through some of our songs for the recording. Since recently, it was decided that we are also preforming our songs after a faculty concert on the 9th. Some Berklee teachers are coming to Nakas to give some of us proficiencies and to play a concert while they are here. By the way, I guess the teachers here haven't been great about preparing some of the study abroad students with the proficiencies. Luckily I'm not taking a test because I'm done with all of those already. I actually suggested to one of the guys in the office at Nakas if all the students could play at the faculty concert. He said that since we all have a class together and we are preparing songs, we could do that. He told me he'd ask Petros about it. Magically the next day, Petros is talking about having us all perform like he thought of it. Hmmm I wonder if I had anything to do with it. Let's just say I did. Anyway, today went really well. I felt good about how I led my friends. Petros kept getting all stressed out and opinionated about my song and I listened to him but once he says one of his ideas, he rambles on like we didn't understand him. I told the band what he wanted for "Poor Stuttering Jones" and started it up: "Ok, from the bridge, 1, 2, 3, 4-". I definitely learned a lot from leading a band extracurricularly back at Berklee. I'm glad I did that.

Some other students here don't have their pieces totally prepared yet and some said they don't want to perform theirs but I'm so happy to be doing it! I hope I get a video of it too. It will be great to watch it later and to put on my portfolio.

Just recently, I went and got some yogurt so I can eat it for a midnight snack and/or breakfast and also a tall can of beer. I drank the beer while studying Greek. Ricky sat down a little ways from me, doing his own homework for our Mediterranean percussion class. We laughed when a guy came into the room for a second, looked around, made a little sound, turned around and walked out again. Hahaha. We always share laughs about little things like that. It reminded both of us of this last Monday in Greek class. I don't remember exactly what lead up to this event but some weird things were culminating, including the fact that our teacher had really tight pants that day, and Sadayah randomly interrupted the class, tilted her head and sang two words, "This Christmas" from the song with the same name. Ricky and I bursted into laughter. Oh and we both put our heads back when we laugh. Hahaha I noticed that today.

Side note: I ate the whole medium pizza (keep in mind it was thin crust!) at around 4 o'clock today. At 8, I ate a slab of fish, french fries, lettuce and tomatoes and bread with butter on it. And then I go and get yogurt for later?! What is wrong with me?