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City Life in Greece

Hi Everyone,

I've spent a lot of time living in cities these past four weeks -- we rented an apartment in Athens for 10 days and another apartment in Chania on the island of Crete for one week.  Living in the city has been different than living at home.  My Mom says some of these things are different because it is a city and some of the things are different because we are in Greece.  This is what I've noticed:

1.  All the stores open at 8:00 am and close at 1:00 pm (they say 13:00).  Then they open back up again at about 5:00 pm and close at 10:00 pm or 12:00 am!

2.  You have to dry your clothes in the wind because they don't have dryers here.

3.  Basically everybody speaks four languages -- even the kids!

4.  The church bells ring every hour (and wake me up in the morning).

5.  Basically everybody trusts each other.  What I mean by this is that you can leave your door open and be gone for as long as you want and nobody will steal anything (people will leave windows or doors open -- I've seen it!)

6.  You eat dinner at about 8:00 - 9:00 pm.  One night we went out to dinner with a Greek family and dinner didn't START until 10:30 pm -- I was up until 1:00 am and got VERY TIRED.

Bye,

Nicoletta

Beach Combing on a PINK Sand Beach!

Howdy Friends,

Hope you're gonna have a great day today!  Yesterday I went to the beach and me and my Mom found a lot of colorful and beautiful shells.  But here's the most exciting part: some of the sand was bright bubble gum pink!  But, this is just too sad - you would have gone to jail if you collected the sand to bring home!  So, I couldn't bring it back to school for the class sand jar -- but I can bring back a picture!  

Truly,

Nicoletta

PS - the sand is pink because the sand is actually pink coral mashed up into little pieces.  The pink sand is very rare.

RARE WEATHER (for us, not the Cretens)

Aye, aye maytees (Mrs. Berger, I'm writing in pirate-speak, so pardon my grammar):

Hope you're having  a great morning!  Aye, but here maytees the sand from a Sahara Desert sand storm (in Africa) is what's blockin all the sun (that's why the sky is so dark in this photo)!  Aye, but that's not stoppin in from bein warm. Aye, the storm is predicted to last 'em three more days and nights with them strong winds blowin in the tide from the South.  I'll still be a lookin for shells and more treasure on the beach though (just like Tony in THE WINDCATCHER)!

Bye, Bye Maytees!

Truly your captain from Crete,

Nicoletta

PS -- I forgot to mention that we flew to Crete two days ago -- Crete is a Greek island that is farthest from the main land.  It is about the same distance from Greece as it is to Africa!