And the prize...

And this years award for biggest dickhead this side of, well, anywhere really, goes to... Chris.
There are 14 people on this course, 4 guys and 10 girls. Girls outnumber guys 2 1/2:1 so the logic would be that you would NOT try to alienate over 1/2 the people on the course with you within the first week right? Uh, no. Apparently not. Chris is of the opinion that women are weak and inferior! WTF!!?? This was the general concensus. (funny that) so for that reason, along with the fact that he has a bigger superiotiry complex than all the Olympian gods combined means that everyone hates his guts and seriously want him to be voted off the island. Unfortunately this can't happen. Dammit! Despite this C21 B.C opinion of women he still had the nerve to bring his laundry over (the guys flat has no washing machine) to the house and leave it with a note saying please do my laundry and bring it back to me. As Amanda so eloquently put it: Hell no! Fourtunately he's not in the main house where most of us (6 girls + Bill) are. Good thing too since he probably couldn't survive with so many weak and inferior people around him.
Aside from Dickhead Chris everything is going all good. Nearly 3/4 of the way through. Yay.
actually have to go do work now. Later

halfway thru

Am now halfway through the course. Not sure if that's a good thing (ie, nearly done, can get a nice little certificate in 2 weeks and then a job) or a bad thing (ie, have a mock test next Fri and the real thing the week after)
Same old stuff's been happening. Boring grammar stuff in the mornings and teaching practises most afternoons but since today's Friday have the Greek class, feedback and job guidence instead. We'd usually get to go home early today but nearly half the class had students through the week who had to cancel/change classes so have to stay til 8. Grrr. Looks like I'll either be writing up reports (maybe) or playing sudoku (much more likely) So glad I have a laptop. Present record for sudoku is 3.55 mins.
Kat, I'll be nice and wish you good luck because although it'd be much more fun to wish you bad luck I'll probably need you to help kill people who piss me off and annoying the goddess of spite isn't always the smartest thing to do... Although it is fun

Since I am updating I can now bitch at Kat to update. Finally! So Kat, update!
Don't have a teaching practise today so in theory I should be typing up my reports, doing my phonology thing, preparing for my lesson tomorrow or actually doing work instead of updating this stupid thing. Have actually been good and done 2 1/2 reports and started preparing for my lesson tomorrow but then got bored so figured I'd update and put off doing some more work for a while but since I have about 4 hrs before we get to go home will probably get round to finishing the rest of my work at some point today. Joy.
Not too much is really happening here. The course is going pretty good and Angeliki was talking to everyone about C.V's and possible jobs in Greece. There's about 3 or so ones she's thinking about for me. Not huge cities which is good for my crappy sense of direction and all a little north and west from Corinth. I don't care where I go so long as it's in Greece.
Going to ancient Corinth this weekend and to Epidauros next weekend to see Iphigenia in Taurus by Eripides so will get to see just how good the famed accoustics there really are.

end of the first week

On the last day of the first week! Finally. Means that after having to get up at 8am every day this week tomorrow I get to sleep in and do absolutely nothing all day. Could go on the archaeological trip they've organised but a)don't have money and b) we're going to the same places we went on the bus tour so it's somewhat pointless and if I go I'll probably end up spending more money than I can afford. ie anything.
The course is going pretty good so far, have had 3 teaching practises so far and passed all 3 and have another 9 to go.
Have the first foreign language class this afternoon. In theory the idea is that you know none of the language whatsoever but since we have alot of people this course who know some Greek I get to do the Greek course instead of the Czech one because otherwise there'd be a grand total of 2 people in the greek class. Instead there're 5 of us doing the Greek because Helen and Andrea who know a little (well Andrea knows more than that considering she's 1/2 Greek)are doing it too. i know the alphabet and about 5 words. One of the trainers Petra is from Czech so they're doing Czech as the other option.
Kaz, when you see Nig tell him if he doesn't give me more details about the subject of our MSN conversation I will seriously hurt him!

Quick update

Only have about 10 minutes so his'll be a real quick update.
Am now at the Corinth school and everything's going all good so far.
Had the 4 day cruise round Mykonos, Ephesus, Patmos, Rhodes, Crete and Santorini last week. Rhodes was really good, had no time in Mykonos and there were far too many tourists at Crete. Got me a Turkish owl from Ephesus.
Had the wedding on Saturday which was good but 2 certain cousins Suzi and James are in serious trouble for a)making me dance and b)taking photos of me. Kat, Kaz and Nick if you want to help me torture/kill them you're more than welcome too.
Have to go back to the class now. Might update tomorrow if I can

Greece so far part 2

Finished our first tour today. Went to the monastaries at Meteora today and then stopped off at Thermopylae on the way back to Athens to see the statue of Leonadis. Was not impressed with the fact that we were on 1 side off the road, it was on the other and we couldn't cross to get closer because the road is too dangerous to just randomly cross so couldn't get any close ups. Grrr.
Yesterday was Delphi so saw the museum, the temple of Apollo, the theatre and then went down to the tholos and temples of Athena although there's pretty much nothing left of the temples to Athena just the foundations. The tholos is in better condition with the foundations and a grand total of 3 columns.
Day before was Olympia where they had the first Olympics. We had a family of 9 on the tour and their kids wh ranged in age from 9-24 decided that they'd have a race the length of the staduim. This was despite it being the middle of the afternoon and more than 30 degrees. Crazy americans. Went to the museum as well as all the ruins. Kaz, got some photos of your temple at Olympia if you want them.
Day before that we went to Epidauros and saw the theatre there. The accoustics were really good but we decided that we wouldn't really like having to sit through a whole day of plays considering the heat and the fact that the seats would get damn hot after a while.
Poured with rain last night and there was a pretty impressive thunderstorm as well. Kat and Kaz have you guys done something to piss Zeus off again? We blamed Marty, a guy on out tour because he took a stone from the Sacred Way at Delphi so we figured it was either Zeus or Apollo pissed about that or it's Kat, Laz or Nicks fault. Started raining on the way back to Athens as well so again Marty got the blame for that because he took photos in the monastaries when you're not meant to and got yelled at by the guard. Or again it's one of you guys. After all it can't be be, I'm perfect. Plus I'm his favourite daughter.
Tomorrow we start our 4 day island tour. Spend the whole day getting to Mykonos. Not so impressed with that part of it since we don't get there until about 6pm so don't have time to go visit Delos or really do much. Grrr
So that's Greece so far. Fascinating isn't it?