...cooooommunication...

If you think that word "communication" is originally from Greece,  I am so sorry, need to disappoint you ... it is Latin one... Most of you probable know that communication consists of few different things... I chose some of them to present you how I see things here... :)

First of all, the language is really interesting, sometimes sounds like Italian or Spanish (e.g. Kalimera [Good morning] :)) but sometimes more sounds like Arabic (e.g. EfHHaRRistoo [Thank you]).. annnnd sometimes you can see Turkish influence, also visible in Croatia (e.g. Sokaki [street])  ...  now after this small Greek vocabulary lesson lets try to read it: Καλιμερα, Εφχαριστο, Σοκακι... -> ?!?!? yep!!! ...exactly; alfa, beta, gama, delta is one thing... but to read it is something more advanced.... I was lucky and had opportunity to repeat my "Cyrillic skills" in Belgrade, which was warming up for Greece :))))

In communication around 55-70% is body language, so sometimes can  be really helpful "tool" to understand what  people are talking about ...buuut sometimes in different country and culture you will stay confused... :P
ONLY IN GREECE word "yes"starts with "N", and to be even more funny if you wanna say "yes" in Greek you need to say "NEeeee" ...in most of Balkan languages and wider it means totally opposite...so, that is something I still adopting to (after a month here...) and I also had some interesting situations with it.... one was in crowded night train, I was between two wagons and suddenly doors started to close, and I couldn't move and of course in that moment I said: "neeeee..." which was reallyyyy weird to people around me [hihih, crazy girl is happy because doors compressed her, yeah write:P]    -> after it, some things changed... :D  From now on, things will be more clear to guys which had theory: "when girl tell you "neee", she means YES!" :P  :P :P

moving on...In general people are talking a lot here (which is not problem for me :D) so either talking on land line phone, cell-phone, public phone (which is unusual in Croatia) or use land phone from kiosk (which I did not know exist).  Even, fore some things it takes time to happen people are really open and ready to help you ... so, you can ask person who works in kiosk to help you charge your credit for cell phone :) In Greece is now new law, and every new sim card has to be registered before activation... and I went to store to do it, which was really funny; signing contract you are able (so-so) to read and understand (LoL), also, the guy put me Croatia as place of birth, even it is not truth he did not mind, and said: "okey, details... no one will check it if is truth or not" hehehe (tnx Lila for helping me with reading and understanding the contract, even we didn't get copy of it., but... details... :P  )  + to unlock cell-phone (like mine was locked for only one network :S) they are charging 30euros... khm, what to do?!? Go home, google "network code" & do it your self ;) 

The internet connection is like it is...even people are complaining about speed, you can see exactly how slow it is... here are also some Malake who left network unlocked... :)

Today I was really surprised with "Christmas gift" from Telecommunication company, yeah, phone book in front of mine doors, and no one took it (like it would happen in some countries...) from other side of doors you can find your mail and bills... :)


If you want to send post-cards or letters from Greece, you can only do that in post office, there is no (at least I didn`t see post-box, neither found a place to buy post-cards) so, sorry, there is no "2-FA-BE" my friends :(

If we are talking about newspapers, the most popular one (specially between AIESEC members in Greece) this week were Kathimerini (check page 16th) :)

Last but not the least, would like to share one story from Greek mythology which I discovered this week...
According to the urbane retelling of myth in Ovid's Metamorphoses, for a long time, a nymph named Echo had the job of distracting Hera from Zeus' affairs by leading her away and flattering her. When Hera discovered the deception, she cursed Echo to only repeat the words of others (our modern word "echo").

huh, It is long one post, but hope you liked it!?! filakia (kisses)!!! ;)