το αγγούρι...

@ Hotel Caravel in Athens

... means cucumber and is my new favorite Greek word. On Friday night I went to Corinthos to a conference about 'Tourism Development' in Loutraki, which was interesting and I felt rather important meeting people like the vice major of Loutraki and the representative for the Chamber of Commerce and president of a successful sport association. At some point during the next weeks we will have meetings with these people just named and try to convince them of our proposal for city branding in Loutraki. For those of you, who study at NHTV a few words probably sound very familiar - so yes we are indeed doing something that has to do with what our university offers (I would have not expected it myself...). Anyway, afterwards I went out for (originally) a quick bite to eat, which ended up taking almost 3 hours anxiously learning the Greek alphabet.Well, now guess what? το αγγούρι was my first word (not for the sense some of you might interpret now^^). I still find it difficult to read or say things, but I always get very excited when somebody asks me to spell a word in Greek. Yet I have to learn the meanings of the words as well... will see how far I get in 4 more months.


Exactly!!! 1 (!!!) month is already over, went my like nothing and I am still in trance of what I have experience already and yet there is so much more to come.


On Saturday was another presentation we had to attend, then went to our favorite bar/café Soul sipping some Muscato (sparkling wine) and a Freddochino (iced cappu). Of course we got hungry at some point and went to a Crêpe House after words, where some yummy Crêpe with chicken, lettuce and parmesan was waiting for me. Meeting up with some more friends we went to Mojo, which is a bar for people between 30 and 50 actually. When you enter you first have to get used to the very dimmed light (almost dark) and very much like a living room atmosphere. The waitress was probably the unfriendliest one I have ever seen in mz entire life and I was pretty close to tell her: "She better quit her job if she wants to earn one penny in her life by not being a complete customer service brick." 

Fish in a Suhsi Bar

Girogos

Sunday afternoon we left for Athens to attend a presentation concerning Network Marketing which offered a new possiility, one just has to grab... will see about that. Nonetheless, a very nice night, which ended in Sushi with Giorgos, Petra and Vaso. Admiteedly, just by driving through Athens, it is not a nice city and looks pretty much like how I imagine Paris in the 18th century. Nevertheless, the hotel, where the conference was held at, was quite nice and called Caravel.However, everything deserves a second chance so I guess, we will go there again to take a closer look at the city, but one says "First impressions don't change...".



#Fun facts for today# 
1.  I think, Greek either use the wrong tooth paste or non at all - why? Well take an educated guess!
2.  People in Athens go out to dinner even later then people in Corinth - the Sushi bar in Athens started filling up around 10.30pm.