My life is more interesting than your life

I'm in Athens!

I Made IT alllllllll by myself :) That's Very Rare for Me, I'm Not Used to BE So Self Sufficient, Even on Exchange I Made My Way with A Lot  of Help for Other People.

But I navigated booking all my hostels, flights, connectors from one to the other, luggage, languages, time zones and I made it. It's Day 1, I was awake at 4am to catch my 5am bus (and it was a nap, like an hour and a half since World Cup was on late, boooo Chile: P) plus I was packing and checking / rechecking things over and over all night.

I was also responsible for checking out of my flat, which meant about 8 hours of cleaning on the same day, and going to uni to print off all my confirmations and flight details and shopping for new clothes and just everything. Yesterday was the busiest day I've had, literally ever, because I was on such a tight schedule. Today was worse, but in a stressful way. 

Bus from Exeter to London was only 3 hours 20 minutes, which is ridiculously fast since half the time I catch it it takes 5 and a half hours. But it was a Saturday morning at 5am so understandable. 

I Got checked in decisively . done I've Never These things alone understand, So IT's A Big Deal for Me to work out Where  to go  and Which Terminal and Which SECTION and Which Airline and do I Need to go to this or Booth?  yesterday but Before She left, Jen said to me, Lucy, you are more capable that you think. And I kept that in my head and got everything done.

My flight had a stopover in Oslo, so technically I've been to Norway now. Afterwards the immigration was ridiculously Long and I was sure Not Even IF I was Supposed to BE there, since I was Just stopping over and I Could Not Ask since I do Not Speak Norwegian, but IT was right, and Eventually , I Got through and went through international transfers security and then I couldn't have lunch because they don't use Euros in Norway and then my next flight was 4 hours and it was also fine, I mostly slept but it was about 30 minutes late so by the time I got my baggage off the carosel, it was 9 o'clock and I had to be at the hostel by 11 to check in.

I found my way to the Metro, bought a ticket, studied the map, waited, fretted, and eventually got on the train, counting off all the stops. The stop before mine, was a big one, and almost everyone got off. It was a change lines stop, so we were on blue, and then you could switch to the red line. I knew I needed to BE on Blue but I was Not sure IF the Train I was on switched to Red or What, I really did Not Know. But when everyone stood up, I reflex panicked and did as well, but then I asked two men and they were like 'what?' because obviously, language barrier but when they asked what stop I wanted and I said, they were like, that's the next stop, stay on and I did.

Then I had a good map and directions from the Metro to the hostel but I still managed to mess it up, by going too far along one street. Athens is unlike Anything I've ever seen. The People, the roads, the Driving . It's insane. I Just held tightly to My Bags, Because there was A Lot of Cash in My Wallets, Plus My Passport and whatnot. I Know this May Sound Racist, but IT's A Legitimate Thing, the Gypsies Will  Rob You in A Heartbeat and they Have Lots of TRICKS, some of Which Already I had seen in the like on the 15th minutes I was out.

I Still Have Not Dinner but had I Have Chafing and blisters and I Can Not be Bothered to go back out in. Tomorrow I Will Have A Huge Breakfast.

PS I am sorry about the ridiculous capitisation. For some reason, blogger won't use english since I'm in Greece so it's automatically translating everything into english, even though it all is english.