Well, today I am stranded on the island. Really, I am. For those of you who haven’t been keeping updated with Greek news, there have been riots that involve tear gas and the stoning of police officers. On top of that, there is a 48 hour transportation strike meaning that flights, metros, and ferries are not in service. Although we were scheduled to leave Serifos today, there is no ferry so whoops, looks like we had to stay an extra day! How heartbreaking…NOT! Our only concern is that we don’t officially know when the next ferry is arriving. We’re keeping our fingers crossed that one will show up tomorrow so we can spend our last weekend in Athens and more importantly, be able to make our flights on Monday to head back to the states!
With that said, this last week in Serifos has been incredible (as always). Sunday night, a few of the girls and I went out to dinner and enjoyed octopus, moussaka, and other Greek specialties. For after dinner cocktails, we danced at Dimitri’s while the DJ played some classic rock songs including Elton John, Bon Jovi, Lynard Skynnard, and many others. The next day, my fiction class and I hiked up a mountain to venture off to a hidden beach near Sikamia. It was more a task of psychological endurance as opposed to physical but once we made it to the stone beach we discovered that there was no view more beautiful or more rewarding than the one we had at that very moment. After an hour or so, he we hiked back around the mountain and enjoyed a most satisfying lunch. Tuesday was another marvelous day at the beach and yesterday, my fiction class met for one last workshop. My class read in front of our entire study abroad group. For dinner, all of the undergrads had a feast while we dodged being attacked by giant dragon bugs! Once again, the night ended in dancing and belting out the words to American songs (I find it so strange that DJs play American music but hey, it makes it much easier to sing to!) Today, on our stolen day on the island, we took one last visit to the beach to soak up some sun. Right now, I am killing time until my fiction class meets one final time to enjoy a round of drinks and discuss some of the books that we have read over our trip. We have one last reading tonight by some of my classmates and I am very eager to hear what they have written during our time in Greece! Afterwards, we will head to Tooties for one last Serifonian gyro a very sad number 13. Hopefully, tomorrow we will board our ferry and arrive in Athens sometime tomorrow afternoon where (keeping our fingers crossed) we will be able to avoid the riots and protestors! Right now, I’m overhearing a conversation between Scott, our program director, and Pam that tomorrow night we will be enjoying a dinner with Athenian students! I can’t wait!!
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