Athens

So yesterday I arrived in Athens and so far I haven't been wholly impressed. It's got its slums, and it's really touristy/fake feeling area, and it's hard to find a good middle ground. The hostel isn't great and it's rainy and dark outside so I can't really go anywhere right now, so it's a bit blah at the moment, but I'm feeling okay since I know things will turn up and I'm leaving in a few days.

A good part of today was when I took on the alias of being an english student and got into the Archeological Museum for free, woot! The woman probably can't detect accents very well, but mine was passable and I had a youth travel card which seemed to convince her. It was a proud moment for me in any case. So I wandered around the museum and then it closed at 3, so I wandered around shops. Tourist shops are very cheesy, but the good thing is that they give me a place to wander when I have nothing else to do--some nice entertainment seeing a block of cheese in the shape of the Parthenon.