It's been a long but good week. We just got back from the Plaka/Monastiraki area where we had gone with my ESL colleague, Patty. We had 1500€ to spend on textbooks and materials, and we came quite close. It was great to look through the bookstore that had a bunch of English titles, but it was incredibly frustrating to try to find the most age and proficiency appropriate textbooks we could out of the selection. There was also the problem of having to search for texts for two separate Academy (high school) classes as well as for a middle school class, two extremely disparate levels.

We ate at a sushi restaurant, our first sushi in a while! It was remarkably expensive, but it was worth it! The 4€ piece of tuna was delectable.

After dinner we walked down Monastiraki and peeked in at the stores. There's all manner of junk to be purchased, and I'm sure that if we'll be seeing you at Xmas, you'll be seeing some of the junk!

Tomorrow we have a Parent Teacher Organization bbq after school after which we head to Hydra. The high on Saturday is supposed to be 68 with the chance of storms. Most people would see this as a bad thing, but I hate the hot weather and don't care about the beach, so I'm quite content. Now, the thought of an hour and a half on choppy seas isn't quite as appealing.