{"id":10187,"date":"2017-12-05T16:16:58","date_gmt":"2017-12-05T21:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/social.rollins.edu\/wpsites\/letters\/?p=10187"},"modified":"2019-07-10T14:45:31","modified_gmt":"2019-07-10T14:45:31","slug":"living-in-athens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/2017\/12\/05\/living-in-athens\/","title":{"rendered":"Living in Athens"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reading the title of this post may confuse some of you. Why would I write a post of living in Athens this late into the semester? If i haven’t been living <\/span>in Athens, then where? My first post here was titled “Living in History” and re-reading it I feel girlish, giddy almost, at how much I only saw this city for the history in it. It makes sense doesn’t it? That is, after all, why so many people travel here: for the history. I had the great honor of living here, and that’s the difference. We have Thanksgiving break, and I stayed in Athens, I got to live in Athens. Explore the backdrops, the hidden corners. My afternoons were spend walking, in different directions, up streets I had ignored and walking into stores I’d dismissed. I got to be among lazy people on afternoons and just be in the city. I learned to hate parts, to walk fast past buildings, to pause at certain streets and then forget most of the details as I got honked at. It was a living relationship: I wandered, I had places to be. I got deeply frustrated at the metro system, and took the wrong bus but rode it till I thought I was close to where I needed to be. It felt different than before.<\/p>\n

Living in history showed me just how a few months apart, and I viewed places differently. I looked beyond the Acropolis, to the fallen orange leaves and remembered this was the first time I lived in a place that actually experienced seasons. And the thing is: it felt natural that it would happen. As if I knew it was time for Athens’ tree’s to change, and if it was time for me to change with it. I recently did the study abroad review and it made be reflect on my time here in Athens. I feel like for the most part I did follow that chart: I was disoriented, angry, happy\/honeymoonish, and now settled. I see the good and bad of this city. I live in Athens. And within 2 weeks I’ll be leaving it, and will only be able to come back once I’m different again (a professional on vacation, not a student).<\/p>\n

I really hope I look back at these posts and just think what a dramatic person I am.<\/p>\n

Christmas is soon though!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reading the title of this post may confuse some of you. Why would I write a post of living in Athens this late into the semester? If i haven’t been living in Athens, then where? My first post here was titled “Living in History” and re-reading it I feel girlish, giddy almost, at how much I only…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":429,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/429"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14315,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10187\/revisions\/14315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}