Movin' Day

Today we finally moved into our apartments!! I'm in a building called Papakyriazi (don't ask me what that means in Greek...) and my roommate, Evan and I live on the 2nd floor. Which is actually the 3rd floor because they count the ground floor as 0.

Here's Evan with our room!

So after trying to lug our suitcases up three flights of stairs and giving up halfway through, we opened our door to reveal......the smallest room EVER. Well, ok, it could have been smaller, sure. We'll call it "cozy." But we have two beds, one desk, some shelves, a wardrobe, a kitchen area, and a table with two chairs. All in this space. Which is not big. Here's our kitchen:

Wooooooo, cooking! Can you cook real things in a toaster oven? I guess I'll find out! I wasn't actually too shocked by the size, I was expecting it to be smaller, like all things in the city are. And it has good wifi and a roof, so I can't complain! Although they DO shut the heat off around 2am each night and I hear it gets more than a little chilly...

I took my first shower here tonight and it was quite the experience. First, I'll show a picture to let you get the full effect:

Yeah, that tiny square of porcelain? That's the shower. But the pressure is great! So great, in fact, that when I turned it on, the pressure pushed the showerhead back and almost out of my hands! I've never had to wrestle with a shower before. I attached it to the holder where shower faucets normally are and on closer inspection, noticed that the face with the little holes was about to be blown off by the water. Ohmygosh. So I quickly turn the shower halfway off (which is where I should have started it) and continue circling in my two-by-two shower. Needless to say, water was everywhere when I stepped out.
I warned my roommate. Twenty minutes later when she stepped in? A crash and the lovely sound of water hitting the walls.

Meeting everyone was very interesting today. There are a lot of people here, around 50. We met a lot of them, but I can recall maybe 10% of the names. I'll work on it.

We got homemade crepes today!! I LOVE CREPES. I got Nutella and applesauce in mine and got to watch as the lady poured the batter, made the crepe, and stuffed a ridiculously large amount of Nutella in it. Mmmm... I'm hoping that has satiated my Nutella cravings for awhile, as I definitely cannot eat those all the time and remain un-whale-like.


Alex and I with our Nutella crepes

 So I'll wrap up for tonight. We have an early morning tomorrow, our orientation for the American College of Thessaloniki starts tomorrow. I think we'll have some annoying "bonding" games and a scavenger hunt. But the hunt's in the city, so that actually might be fun!

Emily