This past weekend we went to a part of the Middle East...also known as Turkey! But first let me tell you about what we did the day before we left. A group of Afghani refugees came to our hotel. We played a game of soccer with them, went swimming, ate dinner with them, and got to listen to their stories. It was the most eye opening day of my life. Growing up in the United States we have been taught to fear or dislike or even hate people from Afghanistan and the m...

So I have been seriously slacking on this blog thing. The last couple weeks have been INSANELY busy. Sooo I'll apologize now for how long this blog might be So lets start with a few weeks ago. One night me and a few of the girls went to play Basketball with some French boys we have become friends with. The basketball games are super informal but extremely fun at the same time. Well this night we played until it was dark and we couldn't see anymore, and someh...

So I haven't blogged in a few days… I've been getting lazy. But now I am laying in bed not quite tired enough to fall asleep so I figured I would update you all on my life. I'll start with last week. We pretty much just had classes and homework. We go to class in the mornings and then lay out by the water every day while we read and do our homework. It's quite the system we've got going on! Well then Friday we had our excursion. We went to a very deserted ...

Well I haven't blogged in a few days, but we have been pretty busy. Friday night we had our first night out in Greece. It was quite an interesting night. Let me just say…Greek people do not dance. We got to the club and after everyone got a drink we all started dancing. For young American girls we were dancing very modestly…yet we were being gawked at. Oh, staring is ok here too which is something really hard to get used to. But anyway we all had a few dri...

So today was awesome! Many fun stories…where do I start? You will have to forgive me if I seem spacey…I'm currently drinking a screw driver made by the best Greek bartender ever….Jeanette So today we went exploring. Like HARD CORE exploring. We first stopped at a museum that showed us how Greek Olive Oil was produced…it was interesting to see how it all worked. The country really lived off of the profits from Olive Oil. After that we went to a Monaste...