I'm a 23 year old college graduate. And instead of just getting a job and being normal, I keep getting myself into these weird situations.

Monday, November 1, 2010

It's Dark

So by the time I had heroically rescued the kids from Ramone, or Ramone from the kids (however you choose to look at it) Papouli had made his way down to watch The Boy' lesson. I went over and sat down next to him.
Papouli was an easy person to talk to. So we talked about Greece, and Greek, and he and a couple other kids tried to teach me Greek. None of it would stick. With us was my favorite of the kid's friends. He was like the surfer version of a Greek boy, with shaggy sandy brown hair and freckled lighter brown skin. And he was funny. It was near impossible to get any of the kids to talk to me, except for him.
So we sat and talked and watched the kids' tennis lessons.
After their lessons, around 9:30, we all headed back up for dinner. I tried to bow out stating I wasn't hungry, but Yaya and Papouli would have none of that. They sat me at the table with a piece of Yaya's cheese pie. It was really good. It was the best thing I had eaten sisnce I had been there.
See, I hadn't really been getting any traditional Greek food. Mr. Crazy was never there, and I had never seen Mrs. Crazy eat, and G prepared the kid's meals, which pretty much consisted of Nutella sandwiches and eggs. So this cheese pie was awesome.
I finished it, and exhausted, headed to my bungalow. European things are all different. And the simplest things can be annoyingly frustrating and make you feel stupid and helpless. I couldn't figure out how to flush the toilet. I knew how it was supposed to, but it wasn't working.
And I could not for the life of me find the light for the bathroom. And the most annoying thing is, European lights are on the outside of the bathroom door by the wall. In theory, this makes sense. You turn on the light before going in which allows you to not have to grope along the wall trying to find it. But for an American deeply in 23 years of habit, every time I would go in the bathroom, shut the door, remember, open the door and turn on the light with an exaspereated sigh.
And there was no bathroom light. I found some I assumed were the bathroom lights, but none of them were turning on a light in the bathroom.
But I knew I would have to go to the beach tomorrow, and I just needed to shave my legs. So, I did. I shaved my legs in the weird European shower in pitch black.

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