I Choose…That One.

Today I had to get up early to go to the hospital again so they could check my chest x-rays and give me a piece of paper saying I don’t have TB. Working at Meadow Ridge, where all the old people are afraid they’re going to die of consumption, I’ve been TB tested at least four times already this year. But whatever. We were in the waiting room forever, watching kid after adorable kid came in and out. Literally, Greek babies are the cutest I’ve ever seen—I don’t believe there’s such a thing as an ugly baby, but there is definitely no such thing in Greece. There’s a surprising number of them with blond hair, and an even larger number with piercing blue or green eyes. It’s adorable. We spent the hours we were in the waiting room making faces at the babies and picking which one we were going to snatch and make our building’s mascot. We settled on one tiny little boy who was running around; he would just be so cute to have roaming around Papa K!

After that I had to take the bus all the way down to school just to turn in a paper, since I spent the class time at the hospital. Then I went home and took a nap; I think this leg injury is draining me of my life force. It’s taking so much of my energy to heal that it leaves me super tired, and I think gives me a weakened immune system as well.

Kelli and I spent a good three and a half hours tonight trying to book spring break. It’s so frustrating, because we had a pretty good plan that we managed to turn into an AMAZING plan, with all sorts of awesome stops throughout Italy and Spain for two and a half weeks, for what we thought was only going to be 240 euro for all the flights, trains, and buses. We were so wrong it wasn’t even funny. All those uber-cheap airlines that advertise flights for 7 euro hit you with so many service charges and fees it’s ridiculous; there were sometimes 12 euro fees for using a credit card to book the flight, even though there was no other way to do it. On a bunch of the flights, fees could add up to more that double of what the ticket itself cost. It’s just incredibly frustrating, especially when on a budget, to think you’re getting this amazing deal and then to find that it’s actually going to cost way more than you thought. We had to cut out one of the stops because the expected 10 euro flight cost turned into 100. In the grand scheme of things our flights are still pretty cheap, but just not as magically cheap as we expected. Although we should have known--if it’s too good to be true, it probably isn’t.