Chasing the Sunrise

I don’t like planes.

Scott and I got on our plane in Chicago at 12:30 PM CT, and after some transfers and layovers arrived in Athens at 5 AM CT, which was 1 PM local time. One cool part about it though was when we left North America, seeing the last bits of the lights then seeing them again when we reached Ireland. I had never even seen Europe before. Also, London is seriously impressive at night; we circled it a few times before landing a few minutes before dawn.

We have an apartment with three other guys, two doubles and a single. I’m in a double with another Daniel from Scotland, whose accent is just as amazing as you would hope.

I got to buy my first beer. That was a lot of fun. At the grocery store here you can get them in 4 packs, but also in singles: you don’t save much money by buying the packs, so variety is nice. They’re also bigger. Half-liters, so about 17 oz.

It’s currently 6 AM Athens time. I powered though, staying up for 30 straight hours so I could get on a semiregular sleep schedule, and I woke up feeling rested at 5:30 AM so I suppose I succeeded.

In three hours I have to go hear about our Greek phones for the third time and about safety and all of that. Hopefully it will be more interesting than it seems, because I’m ready to just walk out and do things.

There will be pictures in time, I forgot my camera cord/charger and will grab a new one soon enough.