Dancing

My inner dancer was extremely excited today when we went to a Greek dancing class instead of our Greek survival class! We learned a few of the basic dances with fairly basic steps, but what it lacked in variety it made up for in tempo. Wow, those were some fast paced moves! It was slightly inconvenient because we had the lessons right before our other classes, so we got to show up nice and sweaty to those, but I've come to the conclusion that you sweat everywhere in Greece. It's always hot out and you have to walk up a hill to get anywhere. But in all seriousness, I very much love the dancing. I hope to find a place around the dorms to do it on a weekly basis. If I could dance for the rest of my life, that would be perfectly fine with me.

On another note, there was a planned power outage today from about eleven in the morning to four in the afternoon. Apparently, these kinds of things happen a lot in Athens. Sometimes for construction, sometimes for protest, sometimes for no good reason at all. In any case, I find it odd that it's so normal. Whenever the power is out at home, we all act like it is such a shock and horrible inconvenient and expect it to be fixed immediately. Here, however, people don't even mind, which seems to be their take on basically everything. It drives me nuts, to be completely honest. I was enjoying this "go with the flow" thing for a while, but now I feel the need to get back on my usual track of making the flow go where I want it to, and it's not going well.

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=10100205052729732 < A video of us dancing. No laughing at our expense, please.