Greetings from Athens!

Hey everyone,
I made it here just fine, but haven't gotten to a computer until now. Our apartments are pretty nice. We even have a little balcony, which is awesome! The flight wasn't too bad. We left around 7:45pm, and they served us dinner. It was pretty good - chicken & rice, wine (yes, they serve wine on the plane), yogurt, and some kind of cake. Then I think I dozed off a little b/c I woke up around 1:30am and they were serving breakfast. Of course 1:30am is actually 7:30am Paris time. We got to Paris around 8:30am, their time, sat around the airport for about 3 1/2 hours, then boarded the plane for Athens. I fell asleep before we even took off, woke up when they served food, then fell asleep until shortly before we landed around 6pm Athens time. (11am your time) We then went out for dinner at a taverna (inexpensive restaurant) and then went to bed. Yesterday we began our orientation. Afterwards we went grocery shopping. The grocery store is about a 15 minute walk from the apartments. It was interesting trying to figure out what everything was. Some of the labels are in Greek and English, but not all of them. I hope I got butter! Syrup I guess is a luxory here because I was going to buy pancake mix and syrup, but the syrup was 6 or 7 euros and the pancake mix was pretty expensive too. We get 12 euros a day for food which is really good. I got pita, eggs, milk, butter, yogurt, water, sugar, cereal, and pasta for under 15 euros. (Next time I need to remember not to buy all the heavy stuff at the same time!) We went out for dinner at this fast food place which was really delicious and inexpensive. I had spaghetti and a soda for 4.50 euros. You could get gyros or souvlaki for under 3. After that we explored a little bit of the city then went to bed. I think I'm pretty much caught up on sleep now.
Tomorrow night we're going to a Greek restaurant with tradition dancing. That should be a lot of fun. Here's a quick look at the trips they're taking us on:
9/17: the Acrocopolis
9/18: Delphi
9/22-24: Ancient Corinth/Ancient Olympia - Peloponeesus
9/30-10/1: the monastaries at Meteora


*PS Hey Michelle...guess what they have here...Pizza Hut! haha