Day 8

We went to the Oracle, which was literally 2 minutes away.  We could have walked there.  It was really interesting learning about the history of it.  I could not believe that there were once 3,000 statues in, on and around the Oracle.  It kind of eerie to think that the oracle could have been some old woman or man that went a little crazy because of the fumes that the area around it was exerting.  I really wanted to break the law and go in the ancient Temple of Apollo where the oracle supposedly was.  But I refrained from possibly getting arrested and sent home, plus the up keeping around the site of the oracle was not well kept.  There were a lot of overgrown grass and weeds.  After seeing this we then went to Athens.  The hotel that we stayed at was in a sketchy part of Athens.  I was surprised to hear that the hotel last year was worse and as Tomas put it “night and day”.  At least it had a pool!  For dinner we all took the metro to an area by the Acropolis, we went to a museum that was really cool and built over an archeological sight.  This museum housed all of the objects found on the Acropolis.  There were so many, and yet the British stole a lot.  I hope one day the British give back the pieces they took years ago so then everyone can see it all as it once was.  After dinner, I returned to my rotten vegetable smelling room and hung out with my roommates Danielle and Jacky.