Greece Day Five

 We finally awoke and went to a fish tavern for lunch right on the ocean. I ordered a vegetarian salad and Casey and Ben got calamari and octopus. The waiter gave us salmon for free to be hospitable  and although I don’t like fish, I tried it and loved it. We walked around the deserted beach and then into different neighborhoods with cute, colorful houses. 

An Arab boy walked out of his house to talk to us but he didn’t speak English and it was hard to communicate. He invited us into his home and we walked up a spiral staircase into his tiny living room. He made us Moroccan Chai tea and explained to us in French (my friend Ben spoke French) that him and his brother were from Morocco but moved to Greece to find work. Now, he works at a bakery in Crete and brought us a plate of his homemade baked goods and made us avocado smoothies! He showed us lots of Moroccan music on his computer and we showed him some of our favorite bands. We watched “Arabs got Talent” and videos of Elton John and Shakira. Although it was hard to communicate with him, he showed us such amazing hospitality and even invited us over for the next night. 

We left his house after a couple hours we stumbled our way into the center of town which had lots of old, European small alleyways and turquoise, intricately decorated buildings. We walked around the corner and was right on the waterfront. We walked along the beautiful shore past hundreds of fisherman boats and watched the sunset. It’s nice being able to figure out everything as we go and not having to stick to a stiff schedule. Although we definitely could have been more prepared, having a loosely planned trip was nice, too. We ate dinner at the waterfront and Casey and I split a calzone. Because my credit card situation was messed up, I had to borrow money from Casey for a couple of days. Never in my life have I been without money! It’s an extremely uncomfortable feeling having to mooch off of other people and I’ve been so fortunate to never have had to worry about money before.

Dinner was awesome- we talked about reincarnaton, camp and was laughing the whole time. The waiter gave us free ice cream and then we walked back and stopped at an internet café on the way. The owner of the café played guitar for us for a while and then we went back and went to sleep.