So Recently...

I find myself cruising the internet rather than performing "normal, healthier", activities.

I have come up with two reasons why this is...
1. Because I'm unexplainably bored with my life and everyone in it.
2. Because I don't want to do my homework.
Even though I personally feel these are two very justifiable reasons to do nothing with me life, I find that many people disapprove of me. Therefore, I would like to take this time out and share some of the most ridiculously random, redundant, and borderline inappropriate (that’s, BORDERLINE inappropriate, so I feel it’s safe to post), videos I could ever see on You Tube.

1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l71oClOu51I
2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_hMnT44Etk
3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_hMnT44Etk

Personally, I feel that these three videos explain our society most perfectly. This is because what people find humor in can help one to understand a person’s personality most. For example, all of these videos which I find unexplainably hilarious are obnoxious and immoral (specifically the last video). Though, I do not believe I am an immoral nor an obnoxious person, I do secretly believe that you can understand how I view the world if you understand my humor.
I believe that when people laugh at other things, they are secretly laughing at themselves, and their own morals. What is it that you find funny? Maybe you can help me get to know you a little better?

Arrrrrrrgggh

So recently I found this website through a friend called www.geocaching.com. It’s a global treasure hunt that can keep you connected to people all over the world. It sounded interesting so I decided to try it with a few friends last Saturday night.

All you do is go on the website, create a free account, and after you find the guidelines to your neighborhood, use your GPS navigation system to punch in the coordinates to the general area where your treasure can be found. Then, you follow the clues and the list of materials needed to find the treasure. If you find the treasure, you sign your name in the container the treasure is in, and leave your mark on the game.

The treasure you find, also isn't real "treasure" at all. Its basically cheap toys, fake tattoo's... you know, stupid stuff. but it's excited none the less.

The concept was pretty cool but we didn’t find any treasure. What should have took us less than 30 minutes to find (according to our list of guidelines), had my friends and I searching for almost an hour. After the hour, we all just gave up.

I jumped a fence, got all dirty, cracked the screen of my cell phone, didn’t find any treasure, but had the time of my life. I don’t think I could have asked for a more hilarious, intense, interesting, unbelievable night.

We are going to try looking in a different spot for treasure this weekend. If you have nothing to do, and it’s late at night, I greatly encourage you to try this and see what you can get. You definitely won’t regret it. It definitely brought my friends and I closer together because it forced us to act as a team, instead of just a bunch of college kids hanging out and doing nothing with life.

Wish me luck this weekend! HOPEFULLY WE’LL FIND SOMETHING THIS TIME! =)

What Greek People Live For

Yesterday marked the first day of Greek Orthodox Lent and I am far from excited. Every year I catch myself getting scolded by all the older women in my family… aunts, grandmothers, even my mother doesn’t approve of my unorthodox means of telling God I appreciate him during this holy time. (In other words, I cheat. I cheat… a lot).

Here is how Orthodox Lent works… for forty days and forty nights you eat nothing but what the church allows you too. Not until 12:00 AM Easter morning, when every Greek in the world goes to church to receive the light of God, which, signifies that Christ has risen from the dead. (I don't remember why he rises, I was terrible in Greek School.)

After that, everyone congratulates each other by saying "Christos-a-nesty" Which literally means "Christ has risen". (Its so pointless to say, because thats what all our burning candles signify but whatever.) After church, around one or two in the morning, our family gets together we eat a lot of lamb. Then, we go to sleep, very full, because our bodies are not used to meat anymore, wake up, go to church again, and eat more lamb later that afternoon, which is Easter day. (There is a little more to it, but that’s the general idea)

This year, I've decided that I’m going to prove I can love Jesus and appreciate his death the way all my little old aunts can. How hard can it be? I am basically just as, if not more stubborn than they are, so why can’t I fast?

This is a list of what I can & cannot eat:

1. No animal that has blood. This includes steak, chicken, certain fish, milk, butter, eggs, etc. oh, and sometimes olive oil and wine. (Which means I cant have certain kinds of pasta either.)
2. I can eat shellfish though. But only four days a week. Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays are completely meatless.
3. Thank you, Archdioceses, for letting me at least eat vegetables, because everyone knows, kids love vegetables.
4. I can drink Iced Tea and Water. I am also allowed to drink diet soda, but I am not a huge fan so I am evermore limited on my choices.
5. Bread I can eat, because the Bible mentions that a lot so it must have been a favorite of our Lord? So because I can eat bread, I can eat some kinds of pasta and rice.

Today marks day two. There is only thirty-eight more full days to go. This should be fun... don't you agree? =)