On Tuesday finally the introduction week of my school started by going to school and register there. The tour around campus started at 9 am but I went there around 11 am. When I went there I felt really really good and proud of myself. I went there alone and I already knew all the places and the huge campus and I wasn't really hanging to anyone like the other girls there. I filled the papers, I got my lunch card and library card (which I really believe that I won't be using). With the lunch card I can get two meals every day for free at the campus restaurants in Egaleo and near Omonia/Metaxourgio. The restaurants are pretty far away but I still think that I will use them at least couple of times per week. The introday continued at school but I felt like I already knew the stuff they were telling so I decided to leave from there.
When I went home my computer had a virus on it which the virus protection programs didn't detect! So I spent a great amount of time trying to fight with my computer. The internet browsers only stayed open for 30-60 seconds at a time when on the other hand skype worked without a problem..
In the evening I met a Finnish girl who had just arrived here and is also doing her practical training as a nurse. We went to have a hot chocolate and talked and discussed about everything for several hours. :) It was actually difficult for me to speak finnish since I'm so used to english by now. There also would have been a first intrduction week party but I was starting my practical training really early the next morning so I didn't go to the party.
Wednesday morning I woke up before 6 am to get ready. I had to take two metros and a bus to get there. I me this physiotherapist student met at Attiki metro station but I had to wait for her over an hour since she was late. When we went to the Rehabilitation center I was in shock! It wasn't a nice feeling at all. Nobody, not even the boss there knew I was coming. They asked me questions like how many days in a week are you here or how long. I didn't know. I felt so stupid. Not that many people there spoke fluent English. The place and all the equipment were so old. It was a total shock. I new before hand that it would be not so modern than in Finland but I didn't expect that bad. They only had one rollator there which no one uses! I can't even describe everything which was so different.
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| Waiting room |
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| Gym |
The physiotherapy room was this huge room with old wood tables which had only some paddings on top. There weren't any rooms so the therapy area was only isolated by curtains which often were all open since the patients wore all their clothes and the therapist were constantly speaking and laughing together. The students there didn't have any supervisors or anything. Instead they had their own patients and they were thinking about giving me also my own patients. In Finland we have supervisors with us like all the time and they advise and tell us what to do. And, the place is mostly neurological rehabilitation center and my neurostudies haven't even started yet.. And I wouldn't be able to communicate with the patients so well..
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| Instead of rollators they used these |
After the shocking day at the practise place the girls showed me a place from where I could buy my doctors jacket.. :D The people working there were really really nice even though not all of them spoke english. It just means that I have to work even harder to understand greek. :)
The afternoon went trying to fix my computer and trying to learn some greek. :) Thursday was a similar day. I went to the rehabilitation center at 8.30 am (the others were supposed to be there at 8 am) and I was the third one to arrive.. :D I left from there at 12.30 am, the same time when the students also leave.
Friday was the day I had been waiting for, not only because the weekend started.. :P In the morning it was time for the practical training place. I tried to follow this around 40-year-old man named Dionisis because he is just a nice guy, speaks good english and knows what he is doing + he has the best sense of humour. There wasn't anything that extraordinary there but there was this old woman trying to walk between the parallel bars when Dionisis left somewhere leaving me there alone with the greek woman. First of all there was absolutely no point what we were doing 'cause the woman had NO interest at all ever getting up from her wheelchair and trying to walk again. Second, she had these massive support things on her legs (never seen those in Finland) which didn't allow her to bend her knees at all. Try to walk with your legs completely straight! Anyone, I was left alone there and the woman started to look really tired and I tried to ask her in Greek if she wanted to sit down. Then I saw Dionisis waving me from the office so I went there and he told me to sit down. I took a chair next to him on a computer and I thought that he would show me some neurological things or something like that. Instead, he started showing me his pictures around Greece and where I should travel while I'm here.. At the same time the old woman was there alone (of course there were other people near but still). And I tried to tell Dionisis that what about the woman there and he just told me that she'll be fine and someone will help her. :D Unbelievable. During the day we discussed (well he discussed) about why I didn't have a boyfriend or the real reasons why I should learn greek.. (In order to flirt with guys was his opinion). Also, once during the day a patient fell asleep during his therapy! :D funny day.
After rushing home and eating I was of to Syntagma sq. to meet my language partner Despoina. She was this nice girl who studies law. She learned really quickly and it was difficult to teach her since she asked really hard questions about finnish language which I didn't know how to answer. We were sitting in a coffee place for around three hours! It was so much fun and I really learned a lot new stuff. :) She told me that she was surprised how well I could speak since I've only studied on my own and also that I have a nice accent. :P
Then it was a nap time and I was really not feeling so well since I had terrible cough and my head hurt. I ended up sleeping over three hours and woke up to my alarm at 10.30 pm. It was so against my nature to get up at that time and start to get ready for going out with Xenofon and his friends to Sakis Rouvas live performance!
The guys picked me up at 11.45 pm and we drove around 15 minutes to Athens Arena which was really nice and big place! People were dressed really nice and the girls had high heels and some mini coctail dresses on. We had ordered a table from there and there were around 8-10 of us there. :) I got some Sakis Rouvas cd when I was younger and I used to listen to it in finland when I missed to Greece, so I new some of his songs beforehand. There were three main performances that night: Onirama band, Eleni Foureira and Sakis Rouvas and all of them were really good! :)
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| Eleni Foureira |
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| Onirama |
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| Onirama singer ;) |
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| Sakis <3 |
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| Onirama singer once again.. :P |
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| Me and Xenofon |
The night went really fast and I enjoyed myself! All the performances were awesome, so different than in Finland. They started maybe around 1 am and it ended at 5 am. We drank whisky and I paid 20 euros for the whole night! :) I went to bed around 6.15 am..
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