It has been a few days since I wrote a proper blog post. The reasons/excuses are as follows:
THE EYE INFECTION:
While in Venice, my right eye developed a super nasty infection due to my contact lenses. Saturday night was absurdly fun, as we celebrated Elsa's 20th birthday... but upon returning home, my eye was ridiculously irritated. Fast-forward to Sunday (October 11), and I'm going to the hospital with Dr. D'Amato. Dr. D thoughtfully picked up the medicine I was prescribed.
Monday, I skipped my two classes, and hoped my eye would heal itself. Tuesday, I was convinced I was going blind in that eye, because I could only see blurry color. That day, I went to a general practioner who said the medicine I'd been using was the absolute worst thing and the definite cause of my blurred vision. This Australian (!!) doctor prescribed a new antibiotic and insisted that I see a specialist. Awesome.
Wednesday, I met Edy at 9am, and we traveled to see an opthamologist. There, I was prescribed two additional antibiotics and told I'd need to be seen two more times over fall break. No thank you.
THE DEATH OF MY LAPTOP:
During my super fun time of blurry color vision, I managed to knock over a glass of water while using my computer. Guess where the water went? Right where it shouldn't have gone. Womp womp. There's goes that!
THE BREAKING OF MY GLASSES:
I resolved to only wear glasses. No more eye infections for me, thank you very much. Clearly, it was necessary for me to break them our first night in Athens while we were on the painfully slow taxi ride home from "I have no idea where we are." 10 euros later (thank goodness the taxis are so cheap here!), I was back at the hostel, and a pair of ghetto goggles.
THE STEALTHY STEALING OF MY WALLET:
Today, I stopped at the ATM to withdraw some cash. I wanted to take out 250 euro, but struggled doing so, and I ended up taking out only 180 euro. I next went to get my glasses fixed. It took a good hour and a half to find someone who could fix my glasses, but I managed! Hurray, I can see again! I asked the woman how much I owed her for fixing my glasses, and she said it was free. I tucked away my wallet in the little zippered compartment of my purse, and zipped that up too.
While we were in Milan (October 15th and 16th), one of my friends made a big deal about how I wasn't dressed properly to go to this caliber of bar/club. I hate packing, because I never seem to pack the right things! I wanted to go shopping yesterday, but most stores are closed in Greece on Sundays. So... I went to H&M today! I love how cheap and cute everything they carry seems to be!
I picked out a few things (including an outfit appropriate for Jen's birthday in Milan), went to check out, and realized I didn't have my wallet. I proceeded to frantically search the store. At this time, my wallet hasn't been found, and I don't think that it will be. Yes, I lost around 190 euro, my debit card, my drivers' license, metro card, and various other things... but they didn't take my camera, or phone! Small successes, right? It's definitely time to start counting my blessings.
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