Hello everybody and Happy Fourth of July! Here in the quiet village of Soroni, we still tried to have as American a celebration as possible; I think we managed pretty well, since we grilled out and drank beers…what’s more American than that? We grilled souvlaki instead of burgers and drank Mythos instead of Bud, but who has to know the difference?
Maria brought over a little charcoal grill for us and we went to the butcher and got some souvlaki already on kebabs with some veggies. I bought all the ingredients to make tzatziki and it turned out really well—seven of us devoured a kilo of it. We couldn’t find any corn so had to do without, but it still turned out really well. It took forever to grill the souvlaki because we didn’t actually have enough coals (although, trust the boys to keep playing with it and lighting stuff on fire to try and “help”), but everything worked out. We carried two tables up to the roof and pushed them together, and had souvlaki pitas, Mythos, and watermelon, and played Bruce Springsteen and Bob Dylan. Maria came for a little bit and tried my tzatziki, which got her stamp of approval, so it must be pretty good!
Grilling and eating actually took up a large part of our afternoon, especially as we took an unintentionally long nap afterwards. Last night we didn’t really do anything fun because those of us in the Mythology class had to write a paper and make a group presentation for Friday. My paper is on the Orphic cult, which is actually pretty cool, and then the group project is on Jason and the Argonauts. I had flashbacks to watching an old 60’s movie about it and we found some clips to include that hopefully he will find funny instead of blatantly inaccurate…..
Slow day again today, class and then just chilling. It was still hot today, of course, but not so painfully, unbearably, sluggishly hot as yesterday. We had lots of souvlaki left so heated it on our one burner. We also took a bunch of peaches and made an impromptu peace sauce that turned more into a peach soup…don’t ask me what we are going to do with that. Then the core five of us—Me, Nick, Margo, Eric, and Mary—did ab and butt work out on the balcony. I have to say, when these new kids came three weeks ago, I was pretty skeptical about whether we would get along but it turned out really great. They are much goofier than I initially gave them credit for and we are all pretty comfortable with each other now and joke around and have a great time. And they’re all coming on the study tour, so the fun will continue!
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