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Athens! Starting with the Parthenon 😊

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It feels like a good time to resurrect the blog and share some adventures now that we're in Athens. When it comes to Athens, where better to start than with the Acropolis? A couple of weeks after we arrived, I learned that the Acropolis would be open to the public until midnight on the night of the August full moon. I decided that we needed to go! So we headed out in the Volvo (stay tuned for a post dedicated to the Volvo) and got there around 8:30 pm. We walked the path up the hill and found three beautifully lit up white marble buildings with the full moon rising behind them. So gorgeous! However, I soon realized I didn't even know what exactly I was looking at. Humanities emergency! (On a girls trip with my mom and sisters earlier this year, my sister Melba (humanities professor) lamented to my sister Liza (ER doctor) that she doesn't feel quite as useful as Liza since no one ever calls her with a humanities emergency. Well Melba, I feel like I'm living one big human...
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February & Chinese New Year in China

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February started with the girls having Chinese, or Lunar, New Year festivities at school. Eve performed a song with her grade as well as a dragon dance at an assembly for parents. Then there were traditional Chinese festivities we participated in. I love going to these events at the school except for the fact that they don't heat the auditorium so in winter I have been freezing! It's common to not heat public places here (restaurants, malls, etc) so I guess everyone else just gets used to it but I haven't! In this first picture, Eve's teacher Mr. Cho is right in front of her. He's the cutest Korean guy--I love that he's barely taller than the third graders!  The  next day I went back for an assembly put on by the Chinese department of the secondary school. Mini was one of the emcees, announcing the acts in Chinese then English. She and Emmy are in the same Chinese class (6 people) and the class put on a play. I didn't understand it as it was in Chinese but I...
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