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10/3/24
Just under a week until I fly to Greece…eeep!!
In the last week I realised that the subscribe box on this site was actually just a text box that went no-where! My apologies if you subscribed already, please do so again in the working pop up on you get upon log in. As I mentioned before I am not a blogger or a website designer. Mistakes are definitely going to be made. In fact I already published a second post, only to promptly permanently deleting it 30 seconds later 😭 so this is version 2!
I have ticked a few things off the list:
- I have found the right sized case to take, thanks M&D
- Language school is organised for the week following my arrival in Athens
- Lulu is sorted & freshly shorn
- Op shopping is exhausted, sans a white bag (excuse to buy whilst there. I wonder if there are op shops in Athens? Must investigate)
- Early check in to Air B&B requested
- Glasses arrived
- Bought mouse, left mouse at parents, bought another mouse, no port on tablet for thing mouse needs, no thing in box anyway. Back to Officeworks tomorrow!
- ESIM options narrowed to Airarlo
It’s been too hot to do much in Adelaide this week. Summer is going out with a massive roar & it’s been unpleasant. I have however attended a few Fringe shows & on Monday I went to see Joel Creasy at the Garden of Unearthly Delights. We were his opening night audience & he used us to practise his new routine on.
It was great fun & a reminder how self-deprecating Aussies are. We are a predominantly inclusive bunch (my reality) who like to poke fun at the rest of the world whilst being fiercely loyal to our country & yet we cut down anyone who we think is getting too ‘tall’ in an instant. We are a complicated bunch but I think most of us enjoy laughing at ourselves?
There will undoubtedly be moments whilst I’m away that I miss somethings about home & I think perhaps humour might be a big one? They (whomever they are) say that one knows a language has been truly mastered when one can understand & tell jokes in that other language. Sadly I am a very long way from that!
Perhaps I can set myself a goal whilst away of learning a classic Greek joke, if there is such a thing & bringing it back home with me to use in case of emergencies when I meet a Greek Australian? Shooting really height there, such lofty aspirations 🤣
I anticipate that my next post will be coming from a minuscule apartment in the heart of Athens. I land on Thursday & hope that by Sunday I have found my way to the language school, drunk a few tiny mind-blowingly strong coffees & perhaps seen some live music in a Taverna. I’ll let you know next week.
I attach a pic of Mark & me last night having our ‘Goodbye, see you in 3 months’ dinner.
