where in the world is steph.... Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? -- Mary Oliver

Yasas!.Hope everyone is doing well. Sorry for the mass e-mails, but it truly is all i have time for. interntet access has become a true privlage. i have been working 12 hours a day, coming in early in the morning. which means i get home and take a nap or do laundry, then go out with the others from my apartment building. there is an apartment with the polish people, an apartment with the dutchies, one with the aussies, and mine, which is the international house, we have an american (me of course), a dutchy, a woman from spain, a guy from chile and a guy from south africa.  needless to say i work with all dutch people except for the aussies which are slowly gaining in numbers.&nbsp; i hear more dutch than greek, and am starting to speak english with an accent :). driving here is insane!!! road rules just don't apply and my biggest fear is that i will start driving like a greek and then i will be in real trouble when i get home.the other night i went with the dutchies to a modern version of an ancient play at the theater in the acropolis. it was amazing to see surround by ruins knowing this play had been performed for centuries in that very place. we accausted two greek people to tell us what the play was about, one before, one after to clarify some questions. all i understood was spiti, which means house....need to get busy studying my greek apparently.athens is hot, mind you not as bad as i was expecting, but hot never the less. which brings me to my next story, how i got goose bumps during an athens summer.<BR>as some of you might know tickets to opening ceremonies are around 800 euros, too much for my blood. what some of you might not know is that there are dress rehersals before the actual preformance. well this guy we (most of the aussies at my venue i worked with in sydney!) worked with in sydney managed to score us tickets to dress rehersals. it was amazing, so amazing i got goose bumps. i was so close to the field i could spit on it. it was really long, and watching the athletes entrance with no athletes is just long and well borring. it is hard to get excited about just a flag. needless to say, you might want to study up on some of your greek mythology. i won't ruin it for you by giving details. hope you all watch it! i have to go, its getting late and i have to BE at work at 500am....uggggggg.....we just keep the motto, "its the olympics baby".cheers,~steph