I only have two levels.
What are they?  Sad and stupid?

Today is our last day in Greece.  I am unbelievably upset to be leaving tomorrow.  It took me a day to fall in love with this place, and I can't fathom possibly never getting to see it again.  After our free morning, when Vaggelis dropped us off at the port, I lost it.  I cried when we left Irini as well, but saying goodbye to Vaggelis was when it really hit me that I have to go home.  I may never see him, Irini, Takis, or many other of the wonderful people I have met here ever again.  I am definitely leaving a little piece of myself here in Greece.  In such a short amount of time, I have gained a new family and it just sucks to know that we all will never be back here together, experiencing things the way we did.  When you live with people in close quarters for a month solid, you learn a lot about those people.  I am closer with some of them now than a lot of people that I grew up with for 18 years.  Yes, that's completely cheesy I know and very uncharacteristic of something I would say, but it's totally how I feel.  I will miss everything about this place, and since I started out this trip with what I missed from America, I am going to end this blog with a list about Greece:

1)  First and foremost, I will miss the people.  Takis, Irini, and Vaggelis were amazing, and I hope to God that one day I can come back and see them.  And for the rest of the people I spent this last month I with, I know most of us will be back in CoMo and reunited soon, but it won't quite be the same back in Missouri.  I can't just run down the hall and ask if you want to go get some gelato, and there will definitely be no beaches to entertain ourselves with.  Sad day.  I love you all.  Yes, including you Barnes.

2)  The food.  Greece is a fat kid's playground.  I have never eaten so much good food in my life, and tzatziki has forever changed my life.  Not even kidding.  I have never cursed and loved food so much at one time in my life.  It was great.

3)  Greece itself.  I have never seen a place with such diverse terrains and climates.  From the beaches to the mountains, I fell in love with it all.  It has just about everything that anybody could be looking for, and the scenery is beyond gorgeous.  I don't know if I could pick a favorite, but I will say that if I could sit at the Temple of Poseidon everyday and just look at the ocean I would definitely die happy.  Pictures of the places do not capture what we saw in person, but as Irini told me, these places will forever be engrained in brain.

4)  Soccer.  I know Americans play soccer, but it is just not the same.  Being here for part of the Euro 2012 was one of the craziest experiences of my life. 

5)  Greek police.  No further explanation needed.

6)  Every goddamn thing.  If I continued on my list would be 100 pages long.  This just fueled my fire to travel more and get out of the shelter of the U.S. for awhile.  I am so glad in the end that I didn't end up getting to go to Italy last year, because this experience was the best thing of my life.

Now that I am officially sobbing on the plane ride home and have "I Will Remember You" running on repeat, I will stop being a big baby and tell you about my last day.  I got to ride a scooter on the crazy streets of Santorini!  It was great!  We ate lunch with Vaggelis, who could barely speak, and just walked around.  Lauren, Katy, Nick, and Sadie rode the donkeys.  Katy fell into some donkey shit; that was hilarious.  Vaggelis escorted us to the ferry, told us goodbye, and I swear I saw a tear when he left us!  Though that might have been my own, I was kind of already a mess at that point.  I don't really cry unless I am pissed off so for me to cry when we left was really something.  Then we got back to Athens (Takis picked us up and I have never been more excited to see a bus in my life....best bus driver ever!) and went and had our favorite gyros at the Smiley Cafe.  The lady who worked there offered to let me live with her since I didn't want to go home.  I almost took her up on that; delicious gyros in Greece everyday of my life wouldn't be too bad of a way to live hahahaha.  Then bed.

P.S.  If I ever see another damn ferry, I will shove my head into a glass window. They are no longer a fun mode of transportation.

Oh, and I already miss Greece.  Round two anyone???