It's Greek to me and The Grand Finale

My last bit in Tel Aviv was amazing. Finals flew by, it was almost abnormal how unstressed I was for that time of year. Packing was also not as stressful as I imagined, I kinda of threw all my valuables in a bag and chucked everything else out, or donated it to charity. My last night in Tel Aviv was amazing, we had soo much fun. We went to Whiskey a go go and then to an open bar on the beach. Everyone was so full of emotions since we were all leaving within the next 48 hours. Everyone was in such good spirits and just was all about having a good time.
On May 24th Ariana, Sara, Dave, Mitch, and I got to the airport around 5 am. We had a 7 am flight out to Athens. The next week the 5 of us would be Greek Island hopping. Talk about the good life. We got to Athens at 9:00 and checked into our hostel, called hotel hostel. It was a freak show place. The receptionist wasn’t there when we tried to check in. we had to wait for like 30 minutes. When he finally showed up he was also a huge freak show. With a tupe circa 1970, long black hair with and flip out. He was pale as all hell and looked diseased. A real freak. He put us in a room for 5 even though we paid for 2 rooms, but we weren’t about to argue with this guy. After we locked all out stuff in the room and went to see the acropolis and the Parthenon. They were both pretty disappointing and under reconstruction. We had to walk like 30 minutes up hill to see them and it was bloody hot outside. Afterward we went for lunch in Athens. Athens in very Christian, Greek Orthodox. There are crosses everywhere. There are a bunch of little side streets with shops and outdoor cafes. It was cute but dirty. The next day we got the Piraeus, were the port is and got on a 10:45 am ferry to Santorini.
We spent two days in Santorini. We didn’t get there until 4:15 that day so we just checked into our hostel, Tony’s Villa, walked around, and got a bite to eat. Tony was considered the Legend in the island. He has an autistic son and the island did not have a special school. So he climbed to the top of the mountain on Santorini and chained himself to the telecommunications poll and talked to the government in Athens requesting a school be placed on the island. He didn’t get down from there until his wishes were granted. The next day we headed out to the beach, the black beach. The beaches in Greece were not soft sand but were rocky. Kind of uncomfortable but still beautiful. The boys left at aro9und 3:00 to rent some ATV’s and tour the island. We met back up with them after the day on the beach, and we went for dinner.
The next day we joined the boys on the ATV’s and explored the whole island. It was awesome. We stopped for breakfast on the water then headed out to some places where we saw some killer views, afterward we went to a red sand beach. I had never seen a red sand beach before and it was unreal. But also, rocky. After a few hours on the beach we were over it, it was soo hot in Greece you couldn’t take much more than a few hours. So we ATVed around the island all 5 of us. We went to Oia, which was so cute, a little fishing town. At nightfall we stopped for delicious Mexican food. The restaurant was owned by a woman from Colorado. The food was divine. The next day we got on a ferry for Mykonos.
Mykonos was younger than Santorini. Much younger. And not as “honeymoony” as Santorini. It was definitely more fun for kids our age. We stayed in Paradise Beach. The beach was gorgeous, white sand slash rocks and crystal blue water. About 150ft in there was a sandbar (a rock bar, it was made of rock). We laid on the beach all day it was so fun. That night we went to the opening of Paradise Club, everyone except Sara decided to stay in. that was fun too. It was like our farewell since me and the girls were leaving the next day while the boys went on to Ios.
The next morning we (the girls and I) got on a ferry back to Athens, our plane left at 2:00am and we were in Tel Aviv by 4:00am. We headed over to Ari’s family friend’s house; they were storing our bags for the week. Took a four hours nap, got up and went to the beach for our one last hooray, our last and final day in Israel. That night we wee at the airport by 10. My flight was our by 1:00am.

My semester was mind blowing perfect, absolutely fabulous, and in all I couldn’t of asked for anything better.