Summer Journal 2012, August 24

This message in an email from Paris today, "Jaiden went back to school to ask her teachers if they drank ouzo, ate karpouzi, or knew what epharisto meant. She was determined to ask her teachers about the ouzo and teach her friends some basic Greek."  I suggested to Paris that we should have sent Jaiden home with a bottle of ouzo for her teacher. 

Anna with Sakis at Sultana's

 

If you can imagine this, Kostas (of Sultana's) and his girlfriend named their new puppy, Margherita - so now I have a baby namesake, a vineyard, and a puppy bearing my name.  I'm a rising star.  Fortunately the puppy is a blonde.

 



Helena Galitsanos

 

Last night we had dinner at Galitsano's with Stellios and Katerina Foras.  Our waitress was Helena Galitsanos.  She's twenty-one now.  I have photos of her when she was five dancing with her father, Stellios.  She is now training as a commercial ship captain.  She's been all over the world.  In October she sets sail for 9 months at sea again going around the world.  When she's in town she helps her father at the restaurant.  She is one of the spunkiest young people I've ever met.  She's proud of her accomplishments and so am I.

 

 

Katerina and Stellios Foras

 

Stellios Galitsanos

 

I'm now into Cully Clark's book The Schoolhouse Door - the story of the integration of the University of Alabama.  I had coffee with him before coming to Greece (he's the Dean of Journalism at UGA and a civil rights historian).  The book is tremendous.  I will for sure arrange for another coffee with him when I'm back home.  I so admire people who write so well and really do such careful research.