hoi poloi

so hoi poloi is the only phrase i can dig up from my 2 years of taking ancient greek but in good news i have 5 weeks to brush up on these phrases before I GO TO GREECE FOR SPRING BREAK! yay! today i booked my 8/9 day trip to greece! Our spring break is officially from march 26th-april 11th (soo long) but of course the beginning of this is passover so I will be in israel (with my mommy!) for the seder and beginning of the holiday. On April 3rd i will depart to Athens with three others girls who all go to michigan and are also chios. We will spend two days in Athens (including Easter..might get tricky with tourist things but also very excited to see greek orthodox celebration of Easter- its going to be so cool to be there at that time) Then on April 5th we will fly over to Crete for three days of hiking and exploring. Then we will take a ferry from Crete to Santorini for a day of relaxation and cotinued exploration and finally on the 9th we will return to Athens for one more day (probs more tourist things because Easter will be over) and then earlyyy on the 11th, we will return to Tel Aviv. We are also planning to do a daytrip to Delphi during our first two days in Athens!
Of course, having studied latin for 8 years and greek for 2 i'm really excited to get to greece to see so much of what i have studied in classics classes. and greece was always one of the top three places i planned to visit while in israel (top 3: egypt, turkey, and greece- so just one more to go after this!) sadly, its not the best weather to be in greece but i am happy to have a vacation focused on seeing the history, hiking, and exploring rather than just beaching (we certainly arent lacking beaches in tel aviv so no need to fly and live in the euro for a week just to beach). besides classics, i'm super excited for the food!!!
our trip to eilat is also in the works for the weekend of Emma's birthday and of course Egypt will be coming soon!

so excited!