Day 48 - Mail & more travel ideas
Today I went down to check my mail and found a letter from the Welsh people I stayed with a few weeks ago, and a card signed by people from my CTK small group. What a great surprise!!! Things like that mean a lot to me and helped make today a great day. I know at least a couple of you read this, so thank you VERY much!!I'm still thinking about my next trip. Tonight I talked to a friend from Northern Ireland and two people who've lived in Scotland. Both sound like places I'd love to visit soon. After all the news lately about the riots in Belfast, Northern Ireland is quickly moving up toward the top of my list of places to go!
Down at the laundry room tonight, I met a couple students from Greece, both of whom did not like England and couldn't think of a single thing they liked about being here. They said Greece is "so much better" than England. I've always thought Greece wasn't much different from Italy (and you know my feelings about Italy), but now I'm thinking it must be a lot different. So I'm adding Greece as another place I want to visit while I'm here - in addition to Scotland, N.Ireland, Ireland, Spain, Germany, and Norway. I sure hope I don't end up having class every day!
2 Comments:
Matt, I think more people are reading your blog than you think. At your great grandma's 100th birhtday party on Sunday. I heard at least a dozen people talking about how cool it is, people from Idaho, California and Arizona. I check it out every morming. I'm still working on the turning point in history one. Keep it up, good stuff!
I am an Englishman who has lived in Greece for twenty years and, believe you me, England is a far better place to live in than Greece - the people in Greece are rude, uncivilised and supremely narrow-minded, the bureaucracy is an absolute nightmare, the prices a complete rip-off in many cases (especially in summer), and the education system is laughable. The problem with Greeks who go to the UK (usually as students) is that they expect to be able to laze around like they can here, spend all night dancing to god-awful Greek music and ignore the laws of a civilised society. There are in excess of 35,000 Greek students in the UK, mainly because they can't get a decent education in their own country.
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