Yesterday evening we went home with Kate and Lindsey, two new teachers from Atlanta, to have dinner. Another guy came over a bit later, and we spent a few minutes chatting on the balcony. At 9:30, their landlady and her English-speaking knocked on the door and loudly berated the girls for "being loud and waking us up all the time and my daughter is studying for test and maybe this is how you do it in America and w
e said no parties and I thought we understood each other and..." It was ridiculous because there were 5 people in the house being very quiet. Ludicrous. The most ridiculous thing of all, though, was that this was at 9:30 in the evening! The Greeks don't start waking up until 9, so to be chewed out at such an early hour is asinine!Another fun interaction with angry people.
To get over it, I just look at photos like this.
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I see one photo and 3 red x's.
Blogger's photo capabilities are suspect.
That's ridiculous since: a) Greeks are some of the noisiest people on the planet and proud of it; b) if you told them the same thing, they'd poo poo you to go away and call you a crazy foreigner (xenoi); c) they should know that noise is the way they do things in GR, so their accusation is nonsense; Americans and British are notoriously labeled uptight for having "rules" because in GR, "it is very free"; d) the party doesn't even start until midnight.
These are some strange people looking for a reason to come up and see what you're doing. That's another quality to look for -- nosiness.
Perhaps they perceived it as noisy even though you were quiet because the walls are paper thin due to poor construction and lack of insulation in all buildings in GR.
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