Blogs from Kefalonia, Ionian Islands, Greece, Europe - page 6

Day 37 This morning I woke up at 6:30am to talk to my boyfriend, who was studying for an important midterm for the next day, and I talked to my sister on msn back in Vancouver. We talked for about half an hour then I let him go to study, wished my sister a good night and I went back to sleep. I got up again, but this time from knocking at my door, because I slept through my alarm and didn’t realize it was already 8:30am! Sara, Isabelle and I had planned to go for a run, if it wasn’t raining, and so since it hadn’t rained all night and the roads were still dry, I quickly changed, took a swig of water and headed out the door with my caked-on-with-mud shoes, from the dig, ... read more

Tuesday 5th October We arrived a bit earlier than expected to lovely sunny weather and tried to figure out where the hell we were going. We tried but failed to sneak onto the transfer bus, well, there was no way we were going to part with £40 for a 7km ride into town so we started walking but managed to get a lift straight away by an English woman called Andrea who lives on the island after marrying a local boy. After some directions we found our apartment which was pretty basic but clean, got some food supplies in (geez, things are expensive with the Euro!!) and had a nice cold beer in a local bar whilst figuring out what we were going to do with our week. Wednesday 6th October Admin day, the necessary evil ... read more

Day 34 (From Pylos returning to Poros) We got up at 7:45am, got changed, packed up and headed down for THE MOST DELICIOUS breakfast I’ve ever had! We met Isabelle at 8:30am and headed down to the main lobby for breakfast and met up with everyone else there. We set our things down and started at the buffet line. There was: apples (I took one for the road), oranges, yogurt and honey (the yogurt went bad so I didn’t take more than 1 bite), tea and coffee (I had tea), chocolate/vanilla swirl pound cake (I had 1), lemon pound cake covered in chocolate (I tried 1), croissants with laughing cow cheese spread and jam (I tried 1), baby spanikopitas (I ate 3! :P), hard boiled eggs (I actually ate one whole one to myself!), packaged toast ... read more

Day 32 At 7:30am Lisa, Jen, Isabelle and I had planned to meet up and walk down to the great little café we found to write our exam; which meant I hesitantly woke up at 6:50am. We all met in Lisa’s room, trying to make as little noise as possible and headed down to write our exam around 8am. We settled into the café, grabbed a Nescafe each and Jen started to write her exam, with the 3 of us frantically searching the answers in our books and helping her all we could. She ended up with 91% and Isabelle and I wrote it second and we scored 98%, having learned from her mistakes. Lastly Lisa wrote her exam and scored 99%, the only wrong answer being something we believe to be a mistake on the ... read more

Day 30 It was the last day of excavations for the week, which means it’s the last time this week that I had to put on my dirty dig clothes, change and I skyped with my parents before I headed to the bus. When we got to the site, it was really windy and the sky was filled with clouds and just a little bit of blue clouds, with the sun trying to peek through. It was windy all day and the sun disappeared for the good part of the day. Our burial group was busy revealing the inside of the pithos burial; which meant 1 person poking around with a souvlaki stick in the pithos grave, and the other 3 of us picking through dustpans filled with the dirt, small bits of pottery and tiny ... read more