Day 5: 5 July 2013

Today in class we began talking about our trip on Thursday to Matala. It was a beautiful trip and everyone seemed to enjoy it. Also with meeting the Deputy Governor, Theano Vrentzou-Skordalaki, of Crete was very successful.

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After discussing the trip from the other day we began learning more basic words. This is becoming helpful when traveling to different areas in Crete.

Examples:

λεγτα - money
σαλατα - salad
τηλεόραση - television

We also watched a move Aunt from Chicago (1960).

This movie was all in Greek, but I enjoy watching old movies in other languages. It was a great movie to learn about the culture and lifestyle of Greeks. The movie was funny and exciting to watch. Aunt Calliopi travels from Chicago to visit her brother to help his daughters find a nice man to marry. He is very strict and always isolated them from the outside world. When their aunt comes to visit she completely changes everything from the interior of the home to how she dresses them. Her way of matchmaking first makes the father mad, but in the end he sees that she is able to match them with successful men and the matching is very successful. So successful he even tries to match her other daughters with someone. Who ever knew that throwing a jug of water off a deck would ever be so successful!