Life in Samothrace is punctuated by food. We have breakfast at 6:30, coffee break at 10, lunch at noon, fried ouzo snacks at 8 and dinner at 8:30. Before we got here, we all worried that we'd be hungry around 6. But no. We are stuffed. Constantly. This is because:
1. someone else cooks
2. the servings are HUGE and no one wants to offend the cook
3. there's little else to do
4. greek cookies are tasty
I am not complaining, mainly because it seems like a miracle that someone else is always cooking and cleaning for me. I don't even have to take a dish to or from the table! But the down side is that I've gained 5 pounds....
ALREADY!
I've only been here for ONE WEEK!!!!!!!!
So I am off for a run. Wish me luck in my daily encounter with the fried zucchini patties, fried battered zucchini flowers, fried calimari, and fried meat.
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considering that on your return from India you could refract light by turning sideways to the sun, gaining a few pounds would be appropriate.
It may not be gelato and cannoli but munching zucchini patties and sipping ouzo while overlooking the Aegean Sea does not qualify as hazardous duty.
(Translation: Working for a living is not all that it's cracked up to be....)
Don't sweat the lbs. Channel the Greek gods and goddesses, who found weighty, curvy women beautiful. Eat up! As a good student, you should appreciate and take advantage of the abundant, free, good food. At least it's not Domino's pizza every night...
If eaten in substantial amounts, the combination of fried zucchini with ouzo causes all those calories to navigate north, which is supposedly how Pam Anderson got so buxom. I dare you to test this theory :)
And I'm with Shane - if nothing else, you could get super art history geek cred by showing up as Botticelli's "Birth of Venus" next Halloween - better start hunting for giant floating shells on the beach!
thanks, i feel better. no smaller, but better ;)
The Birth of Venus is HOT. I'd hit that.
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