The town is yours to take

The thing about Athens, as I've noticed so far, is that you'll never truly get used to it. I like to think of myself as a very observant person, but I've walked down the same sidewalk nearly a dozen times now and each time there's no lack of exciting new things to see- both big and small. New flowers that I'm dying to learn the name of, new birds singing their songs, new bugs to swat away, and especially new people to populate my world. The newness of this place is overwhelming, but in a good way. Like spending months in a dark room and then walking outside and being completely overwhelmed by the brightness of the mid-afternoon sun. I could even make a really nerdy reference and say that it must be how little Lucy felt the first time she slipped through that wardrobe into Narnia- she could tell that it wasn't the same world she was from, but she had no idea what kind of wonders and magic she would find yet. Wonderlust definitely comes in handy in a place like this...