Dena

After returning from Barcelona, I met up with my friend Whitney and she and I went to Santorini for two days. It was short, but it was amazing! We left on Tuesday evening and arrived in Santorini around 2 in the morning. We hadn't arranged a place to stay for Tuesday night, so after we got to the port we found a place and bargained the price to something we felt was reasonable. We stayed in Fira for the night and in the morning rented an ATV for the next two days. We then began the adventure of finding the hotel we had booked for Wednesday night in Perissa. We never actually succeeded... We made it to Perissa fairly easily. We weren't actually paying attention at first, so we took a bit of a detour and ... read more

Unfortunately, it is true that the music was created by my singing. We all know how terrible that can be... Anyway, I took my last exam of the semester on Monday morning (I think it went alright!) and only had a paper left to worry about. So I said 'you can wait' to the paper and scampered off to Meteora with Camille. We left early on Tuesday morning, though the tickets I bought (which were supposed to be for Tuesday) were actually for Wednesday. They told us we would have to stand if there weren't enough seats and that we would just have to try and find a place to sit. We found a place- turns out it was in the first class cabins! We had a great ride there! it was very Harry Potter-esque with ... read more

Last night, one of my roommates convinced me to come out with her and a couple of her friends. It was the first time I really have gone out all semester. It isn't exactly easy to do so in Athens (or Greece in general). First there is the time thing. Don't get me wrong, I love staying up late. But even for me it can be difficult to wait until midnight or 1am before even leaving the apartment. At that point I like to be cozily awake doing something in my pjs (unless I am already out and about). Then there is the other issue. It is really hard to find a place to go where people actually dance. Anyway, we decided to go out. So we got all dolled up and left the apartment a ... read more

While in Egypt, we took a day trip out of Cairo to explore Alexandria. We hit all five of the big sites: the Roman amphitheater (which we really just glanced at), the pillar of Pompey, the catacombs, the library, and the citadel. The citadel was a pretty ridiculous experience. The museum of the citadel had nothing to do with the fortress and instead was filled with life-sized dioramas of sea life. It was, however, pretty neat to stand in the belly of a whale. I had never before seen a whale skeleton (at least not that I can recollect). The library was pretty neat. They had a really amazing collection of old and rare manuscripts. The oldest dated to the 10th century AD. They covered a whole variety of topics from math and science to religion ... read more

We embarked on our Egyptian journey on Thursday around 9pm when we left for the airport. We made it there with plenty of time to catch our plane. The hostel people were supposed to pick us up from the airport, so we figured we would have no problems. Unfortunately, upon arrival we did not see anyone from our hostel. Turns out the email I sent in reply to when we got in did not go through. Sarah and I ended up taking a taxi. Finally, at about 4am, after 8 hours of traveling (there was a time change), we made it to sleep. Sarah and I opted to take our first day as a pretty relaxed day, mostly because we would be able to sleep in a little bit more that way. We didn't wake up ... read more