Day 6 - February 24

February 24

yesterday's riddle: the mind
no success: no one got this one. Emily-Jean was closest. She guessed mind.

dare: to get dirty (metaphoricall or literally)
success: I got dirty metaphorically (but unintentionally). I told Jacob we could get him a gyrator. Long story. But if it helps, I got literally dirty yesterday in Delphi when I got into a hole.

quote: "Those who know nothing of a foreign language [or land] know nothing of their own." - Johann Wolfgang con Goethe

riddle: You can do it in vessels for getting you clean. You can do it to fabric to stop being seen. You are doing it when you come up short. You're doing it when you've equalled in sport.

So we are still in Olympia. Today was both interesting and good. Apparently Greece is in a mini-crisis right now. They are bankrupt, and that means that all the government workers decided to go on strike today. So therefore, the site of Olympia was closed. Apparently the people of Greece have a different idea of strikes than we do, though. A few of us managed to get halfway into the site without any security guards, picket lines, or people of any kind stopping us. As for the riots going on in Athens...yeah, we heard. But we feel fairly safe here in the small town of Olympia. In fact, we feel fairly safe in the whole country itself. As for the rest of the day, we just wandered around the city shopping and meeting people. A few people in the group even had the good fortune of meeting some shopkeepers with some of the older Olympic torches and having pictures with them. The people here are fairly friendly. We have managed to make friends with the shopkeeper of a jewellery store. When we were looking for this internet cafe, we met him on the street. We told him we had walked by this place thinking that we needed to have our own computers. He asked if we had actually bothered to ask if they had computers, and we said no. He called his son for us to check. Then he told us a Greek proverb, "By asking and asking, one can get from here to Istanbul." Smart words. If it wasn't for him, we definitely wouldn't have found this internet cafe. Very nice people.

Besides that, nothing else has really happened. But it was nice to just spend the day doing laundry and wandering around the city. It was interesting to see how the Greeks actually live day-to-day, without a mass of tourists flooding the city. I'm glad they were on strike!

-Natalie