KBOO DOES GREECE

AND THERE I WAS…

ALL ALONE in Panepistemou Pente….WAITING…..just waiting, for time to happen. After an amazing Thursday with Kaci (AS USUAL) I was left to myself just contemplating how excited I was for Saturday to get here…..no really. YOU HAVE no idea. IT was ONLY Friday when I woke up, I still had a LOT of waiting to go, UGH! HOWEVER, around noon I got the best email EVER.


REMEMBER that one time when Madre sent a package with a TON of awesome things inside, including my FAVORITE discontinued pair of Jeans…yeah…well A.C.T. LOST IT!? WHAT!? THEY LOST IT. OF COURSE they would lose MY package……but I was pretty adamant about it and was compensated for the contents inside the box. Three weeks later, aka when I’m playing the waiting game on a lonesome Friday, I get an email…keep in mind that I waited 2/3 weeks for the box to get here….and it was KATE the Study Abroad Coordinator, with news….great news….THEY FOUND MY PACKAGE!!! SO EXCITING! In which case, Kaci and I were off to campus to obtain my box (AND she had class, while I had NO intention of going to campus because I didn’t have class…right then) I had to pay back my compensation so that was a downer, but my box was AWESOME!


BUT, where was my box this whole time?

WELL they had thought that someone had stolen my box, which is just ridiculous but plausible since their system of mail and package retrieval is RIDICULOUS! AND the woman that is in charge of it all is not a nice person….in fact she is anything and everything but nice. Not cool….NOT COOL at all. AND SO my missing box was taken to the WRONG post office because the ACT people picked a random package up for someone that had an “American sounding name” and this person was completely GREEK. Meanwhile his package had been hanging out in the ACT package room at the tip top of campus and LET ME TELL YOU those stairs are NOT forgiving! While my package was just hanging out where his should have been…..ok Greeks…you need to LOCK IT UP. I’m getting really agitated with your unintelligent behavior. THIS IS NOTHING NEW….so why is this still a problem…HMMM….??


SO THE BOX came and made my life and my Friday move SO Much faster than anticipated. Kaci left for her weekend with family friends and then I really was all alone in Panepistemou Pente. First time….actually ever….I CANNOT remember the last time I had alone time. SAB-ers are around 24/7. We literally have no choice. I mean we hangout, live, learn, eat, EVERYTHING together….there isn’t room or time anyone to really be alone, so I’ll be honest I really enjoyed some quite time….it was SO NEEDED. I cleaned, did laundry, did some school work, finally wrote my Athens blog…AND finished my Berlin Blog….holy smokes THAT took forever! SHEEEESH!!!! No there aren’t any pictures yet, but there will be eventually, promise promise.


AND THEN, THEN It was Saturday.


I tried to sleep in, but that didn’t really happen. I was too excited…THE COUNTDOWN has reached ZERO. Basically I spent the majority of my morning/day trying not to cry because I couldn’t believe she was actually going to be here….NO REALLY. SHE just needed to get here….AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. JUST knowing that she was closer to me than anyone else made me feel so relieved and pumped….


AND THEN the taxi ride to the airport seemed to take forever. WHY DID TIME MOVE SO SLOWLY….time goes by….so slowly…time goes by….so slowly….annnnd thank you Madonna.
SO I just waited, and paced….and waited, and paced….and I looked on the monitor of the arrivals screen and I saw that her plane had landed, I was literally WIGGING OUT LIKE IT WAS NOBODY’S BUISNESS on the inside…now I know how Kathleen felt when I went to go see her in Mississippi….but this was really really extreme because she got to talk to us whenever she wanted…and I well…..we all do our best….makes me sad….I cannot WAIT for constant interaction between myself and WHOEVER I want! IT’S GOING TO BE SO FUN! YAY ENGLISH!!! I’LL HEAR YOU SOOOOO SOOON!!!!!


AND SO I looked and waited and stood in front of everyone else waiting for people….I had my tp rolled up in my purse ready to go…..because I knew I Was going to be a complete disaster…I tried so hard to look cute, and then I went and messed it all up. AND THERE SHE WAS……ALIVE AND BEAUTIUL! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH INSERT UNCONTROLABLE TEARS and UNCOMPREHENSIBLE WORDS HERE! For several minutes, 15-20 to be exact….give or take 30 more minutes…..perhaps an hour/ rest of the evening.
GOOD GRIEF I HAD TO WAIT FOREVER FOR HER TO GET HERE. The countdown started 38 days ago….38 DAYS and NOW IT WAS FINALLY OVER!? ARE YOU JOKING ME! AHHHHH WE MADE IT!!! WE DID IT!!!!! SO KATHLEEN WAS FINALLY IN GREECE. …it was SO awesome to hear her go off immediately about her trip, and school , and life, and boys, as if I had been there every step of the way because I have been just telecommuting….aka….not cool.
So we went back to Penepistimou Pente......and she got to see how life really was in Thess…the view from my room and everything. SEE MY PICTURES ARE REAL!!! NOW you know! I think she liked it….my favorite line from Kathleen in the first 2 hours….. “SO…..you like…..actually live like in a CITY!? It’s not a third world country!? AND YOU CAN SHOWER whenever you want!” haha ok so that wasn’t what she said verbatim….but that basically sums it up…..haha I WAS SO EXCITED FOR HER TO BE HERE!!! AHHHH


AND SO we decided to go out for dinner at a taverna….the chicken taverna to be exact….DUH! Of course I Would take her here….it is my favorite one…though I am getting tired of it, and they knew me which was super nice and they took great care of us…Kathleen was so confused but excited to just DO GREECE…..FINALLY KBOO DOES GREECE….


Serious Side note: Readers, please expect notes from Kathleen in the future to be placed in this blog or in compensation around the blog post. Once this occurs the blog will be complete. Thank you, Management.


LITERALLY Kathleen had been in Greece for about oh 2 hours….and Appostoli moved us inside because we were sitting outside WHICH floored Kathleen….haha THIS was awesome…yes we sit outside…ALL THE TIME….especially in the cold…these people live for space heaters/lamps and being outside…..and so outside furniture is ALWAYS out….pretttty cool huh? We were sitting outside, but I was glad to be moved inside…the music was inside tonight and I like to be entertained…not that kboo wasn’t entertaining enough!


SO we moved inside and literally not long after we had sit down the boys next to us started talking with us and bought us wine and wine, and more wine. KATHLEEN WAS SO FUNNY with those Greeks…she knew absolutely NO GREEK and they were giving her the hardest time…..to her “oh-he” was “oh-mah” which means “NO” in Greek…it was HISTERICAL….oh Kathleen….she did great though for her first night ANNNNDDD eventually those boys asked us to go to a club with them and I was game for whatever…..luckily…SO Was Kathleen……it’s a good thing she was too excited to notice how tired she really was…but…ohh I KNEW….I had been there.


Side Note for Madre:
Please plan on me sleeping for 4 to 5 days straight. I love you, we will talk A LOT and I will show you my life….but I will be passing out and sleeping-in because my body is going to hate me when I return. Oh Jet-lag you are inappropriate. Love you mean it <3



BUT SERIOUSLY….Kathleen was in Greece for 2 hours and boys were already making moves on her….ARE YOU KIDDING ME RIGHT NOW….if Kathleen had been here since day one…we would have done a lot of damage….yep….a ton….haha maybe it is a better idea that she only did come for a week…hmmm…..



They took us to a really awesome music club that had a huge marble winding staircase. It was like my fair lady meets Hollywood meets the killers meets pink. It was awesome inside…..there were chandeliers with pearls streaming down them and mirrors of all different shapes and sizes. The music was way too loud…but it was good music. And so we just hung out and talked and it was really fun. I couldn’t have asked for a better night out with Kathleen…first night in Greece…and she did it up right! SO PROUD KBOO….SO PROUD! Best part about the night was that those boys wanted to see us again and they were fun and you never know…new people are always fun…..annnd thus ended Kathleen’s FIRST NIGHT IN GREECE!!!!!


HOLY BAKLAVA EVERYBODY!!! (because Kathleen thought this was Greek...and meant something other than what it really is which is....just goofy....and me being well...me...haha BLESS HER HEART!)



To be continued…..