Magissa! (Magic)!

That was my line. Yes, I've really broken through with my acting career. I have speaking lines now! In Greek! Jack (in the beanstalk), Little Red Riding Hood (played by my friend Mina), Puss n Boots (played by my friend Diana), and Cinderella (yours truly) all came to life out of storybooks in this morning's episode of Kokkino Leoforeo (the Red Bus – as you may remember from my Elefantaki debut). Fortunately I forgot my camera, so I don't have any pictures for you to see just yet. But if you are in Cyprus, just tune into PIK next Monday at 3 PM (or just wait for Christiana to give me the DVD).

Other news. Remember a few months ago when I had more free time than I knew what to do with? Well, that's all about to change. Tomorrow morning I am going to the University of Cyprus to sign my life away. OK, really to sign up for a Greek class that will be every night from 6-9 PM. That means that I will have to go straight from work to class. And if you're anything like the people I've already told this to, you're going to ask me, "What about the gym? What about yoga?" I know, I know! You think I haven't thought about this? My answer is that there just needs to be more hours in the day. So I will make more! I'm going to have to start getting up earlier to go to the gym before work or else get to work early enough that I can leave early and go to the gym or go do yoga before Greek. It will be an adjustment, but it will be worth it if I actually stick to it and finally learn some ELLINIKA!!

Speaking of Greek, I might be glad that I'm taking this class because Barb and I MIGHT be going to Athens next. Yeah, I know, 5 months into this tour and we have to start thinking about the next one. But that's life. I'm pushing for Athens because 1) I won't feel like attempting to learn this impossible language is a total waste of time and 2) I might have a job there (the mother org of the one I'm working at now). But the other two places Barb put in for are Rome and the Hague. I guess I'd be happy with any of those. I've never been to any of them except Athens for a week for work, but I've been to Amsterdam and loved it (and its only 35 miles from the Hague) and I hear Rome is wonderful too. And to be honest, we're not even guaranteed that we'll get one of these three. SO...I should just shut up until I actually know something. Till then...