Wow... that was a crazy 5 hours. I called north west airlines at 1:30 pm. By 2 pm they told me that basically I had to leave the next day out of Athens or have to wait till at least Tuesday to come home which just wouldn’t really cut it. So, I said lets do it. I said yes to the flight without even knowing for sure I could find a way to get to Athens by 10 in the morning to make my flight… in hind sight that probably wasn’t a great decision but it worked out. I went directly from the restaurant I was using the internet at, to the ferry ticket office with every possible finger, toe, eye, piece of skin I could cross crossed praying that there was a ferry tonight I could get on so I could make it to Athens in the morning. Sure enough, there was a ferry leaving Kos at 8 pm that would arrive in Athens at around 6 AM which would give me plenty of time to make it to the airport from the port in time to catch my flight. Every thing has just kept falling in to place thus far. So by this time it was 2:30 and I needed to be at the port at 7:30 to catch my ferry. I had 5 hours to pack; inform work, my roommate, and all of the other great friends I’ve made since I’ve been here in Greece that I was leaving; I needed to work something out for my roommate so she didn’t get hung out to dry by my very money hungry Greek landlords which didn’t really work too well, I felt really bad they said since I was leaving and the agreements were all made through me that she had a week to find a new place to live, which didn’t make any sense to me since they were getting the same amount of money from her as they would me, but I think they were just looking for a way to get the room back so they could make more money off of tourists rather than rent it to us. Oh well… I tried my best but it was just another situation where for Greeks making money takes all precedence over actually caring about a person. My parting with work wasn’t as hard as I thought it would be they were very understanding but I still felt like a real jerk for not being able to give them any notice about it. But they still were like come back next year! I told them I’d definitely keep it as an option but I didn’t want to do it unless I had a friend come with me, so, applications are still open for next summer and will be evaluated at a later date haha. Saying goodbye was hard and it was sad because I didn’t really get a chance to say goodbye to half of my good friends, I didn’t get to have a “last night out” or anything like that it was just like hey… I’m leaving in an hour and have to go home, take a shower, and finish packing. So… good luck and have fun and you should come visit me! And now I’m here in the middle of the Agean Sea again on my ferry to Athens writing this blog. I’m not going to make this a final thought blog or anything of the sorts because, especially now, I’m in such a daze pretty much by what has all happened in the 5 hours that I can’t really be asked to sit and reflect. All I know right now is I am on my way home to go see my nephew and its totally worth doing at this point. We better have some fun together me and Samuel seeing how just in order to see him I am giving up half my trip to Greece, by the end of this trip home will have taken a taxi, a ferry, a bus, a train, another bus, and 3 airplanes totaling over 30 hours of travel. But the funny thing is I haven’t doubted it for a second. I know I’ve made the right decision to come home. So to all of my friends everywhere I’ll be home Thursday night, I have a week with my nephew then he leaves for Alaska, after that its time for me to catch up with the ones I care so dearly about. Which means I’m gonna need some cell phone numbers and a replacement phone pronto!
Much love guys, This is going to be my last post while actually in Greece. I’m sure there will be a couple reflection posts afterwards
Stayin classy on my 30 hour trip home,
Evan
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