Protest!

So, over the past several weeks, many strikes and demonstrations have occurred. They're generally pretty tame, but this one in particular was rumored to be a more exciting one. So Natalia and I went down to check it out. Mild anarchy ensued.

Turkey!

Sorry it's taken so long to post this. Right after Turkey was midterms, and then I went to Casablanca. Craziness! Anyway, pictures are up here: http://picasaweb.google.com/Marigumi/Turkey

And here's a very short video shot on the only day that it was sunny and I didn't feel sick.

Video and pictures from one of the demonstrations and Casablanca are coming!

Love love love.

One more post pre-Turkey

Outside! Woo!

I'll be back Sunday evening. Love you all!

New Year, New Hair, New Blog Post

The blog is back! I have no excuse for the long gap in posts.... Sorry! Also, the aspect ratio is off. Not sure why. I'm not that wide in real life.

As always, I miss and love you all.

Much delayed post!

I humbly apologize for the number of times I say "umm" and "which is cool". My speaking skills are somewhat wanting....

Here's the movie I made for the talent show:




Once again, I love and miss you all!



"Athens" by Marissa Linzi is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License

TORA EINAI ORA (The time is now?)

Greetings! Here is a video which consists of a couple of minutes of me being awkward and about a minute of Socialists rallying.
Special thanks to my tall friend, Brian, for getting George Papandreou on film for me. Also, the reason he's pouting is that he bought a flag and then realized it was upside-down.

Edit: Audio in the second part was messed up but is now fixed. It was actually just me being dumb and not the program after all.

Another video for you!

Hello all,

I finally made a second video. This one has not only my face but also some Athens in it. Apologies for the less-than-stellar editing.

Trivia:
I'm whispering because my roommates are in the apartment and the walls are thin, and I felt weird about just talking into a camera in my room...
The song in the second part has nothing to do with anything; it's just been stuck in my head for days and days. So now you can experience Athens the way I've been experiencing it. With Colin Meloy in the background.
It's so dark because it's very late at night, and the lightbulb in my room doesn't do much in the way of illumination.
One of the shots is flipped horizontally.
This is pared down from about 30 minutes of footage. Most of it was terrible.
This is the second time I've posted this, because the first time the video was inexplicably messed up.

In other news, I've been having a great couple of days. Some friends and I went out on the town last night and had lots of fun, and today I got a somewhat incredible amount of food at the farmer's market, considering what I paid for it. One lady gave me free carrots!
Free carrots were one of the highlights of my week. I find joy in the simple things, I guess.

OH! And I now have an x-ray of my lungs! SO COOL.

P.S. I just found out about a Catholic church really close to where I live that has Mass in English on Sunday nights at 7 p.m.! I think I'm going to go this Sunday.

Slightly delayed first post

Hey everybody,

Here's my first post from Athens. You'll get to see my apartment and the view from my window. I apologize if the video quality is poor; I've never put videos on Blogger before, so I don't know how well it handles it....
Over the next couple of weeks I'll bring my camera around the city and show you some cool things that I've seen. The view from the Acropolis at night is something special. For now, I'm doing fine; I'm having fun. My mailing address is on Facebook if you'd like to send me mail. I would surely love to receive it.

Of note:
I saw a device called the "Fischer Panda Generator." I'm not sure exactly what it does, but it probably isn't what I'd like it to.
My apartment is at least 30-minute walk to the Academic Center, where my classes are. There are lots of stairs. I will be so fit, man.
I've met two people who know people I know at Brandeis, and I met a girl who went to Pinkerton. Crazy world.
The post office near my apartment closes at 2 p.m. This is the reason why no one has gotten any letters yet. Don't expect any for like a week, at least. I'm not sure how long it takes a letter to get from Athens to New England.

Mucho mucho loveo.