It’s so beautiful! I think it’s finally spring; going to Skopelos has cemented, in my mind at least, the fact that it’s time for beautiful, sunny weather every day. Today was perfectly warm and sunny in Thess—even the Greeks were taking off their jackets! We study abroad students spent all free time between classes lying out on the steps outside and dreading the thought of returning inside.
I also learned today that the garbage strike isn’t actually a strike, but yet another manifestation of Greece’s debt crisis. The city doesn’t have enough money to pay garbage collectors, or buy new trucks, or fix them when they break. There just aren’t enough trucks to service the city and garbage continues to pile. Some places it isn’t so bad, and other you have to walk through the streets because the sidewalks are impassable. There is a mountain of garbage at the end of our street by the grocery store that looks like it will fill a whole truck whenever one finally comes by to get it. It’s disgusting, and worrisome as we move towards warmer weather. Apparently there is some type of solution that will be implements mid-April, but if it’s Greek, I don’t know how good it will be.
Since our pastitsiou last week was such a raging success and everyone in the building who asked for “just a taste” ravaged the pan anyway, Tanya, Abby, and I have decided to make yemista (stuffed peppers) for the whole building. We’re going to charge everyone who wants it (which is everyone) around 4 euro for two yemista, plus salad, a potato side-dish, bread, and homemade tzatziki. It’s going to be so intense tomorrow; we’re making 35 yemista to feed everyone, using all three of our tiny ovens and stoves. It will be quite the ordeal, but if we pull it off we will go down in the history of Papa K as the best cooking team the building has ever known…wish us luck!
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