Tourist!

My gosh, Sunday again??? Time is just breezing past. Paros is beginning to feel so familiar, but new things catch me by surprise every day. I'm trying to soak it all in, savor each moment and new discovery, 'cause I know time is going to keep ticking by.

(Kazoo intro) Doo doo dee doo: Lindsey's List of WEEK THREE Cultural Interactions and Observations:

1. Black is the new pink, the new yellow, the new, well, everything. Everyone wears black here -- everywhere, all the time, no funeral needed. I thought it would change as the weather warmed up, but I still manage to stand out like a carrot in a candy shop with my crazy tropical color scheme.
2. Greek children in large groups like to heckle Americans. A lot. A big tribe of elementary schoolers followed some friends and I along the beach, pointing, laughing, and yelling "tourists! tourists! tooooooourists!!" while making rude gestures. I half expected them to start hurling rocks...maybe I should buy more black and try the blending method?
3. The bizarre and unfounded association of my face with Jodie Foster transcends cultures and crosses oceans. Twice this week random Greek strangers have pointed at me from afar and yelled that very name...guess Silence of the Lambs is a cultural universal?
4. St. Patrick's Day is not really celebrated in Greece. SAD!!! It's only the best holiday ever!! But I DID book my tickets for my spring break Ireland excursion, so all will be well once my feet hit the Emerald Isle. Can you say Dublin par-tay? Yeeeee-ha!
5. Apparently I missed the memo about needing rock-climbing/base-jumping/wall-scaling comic book hero experience to attend this school...our most recent hike almost led to this here clumsy girl's painful death. But, truth be told, it was so worth it, the view was out of this world. :-)

A storm's coming now, I can hear the thunder coming over the mountains. Maybe we'll have a true tropical gale, Gilligan's Island style...yup, here comes the rain!!