Lessons from Greece

GDuring my two weeks in Athens, I've discovered the following things

• Uzo is the national drink of Greece and it is not your friend. Oh, it may start out as a polite conversation but towards the end of the night it turns into an argument and you will wake up the next morning regretting the conversation.
• If a man walks up to you on the street and starts polite conversation, he’s a pimp. I don't care what else he says he is, he's a pimp. The pimps in Greece are polite, friendly and do not take no for an answer. Distance is your only option since they don’t wander more than half a block from their corner.
• Good (kala) is used in some form in just about every sentence. This leads me to believe Greece is a good country.
• Greeks have great salads and serve mounds of meat at good prices.
• Parakalo (please, welcome, and about one hundred other meanings) is used at least once in each spoken paragraph.
• The Greeks speak at warp speed.
• You get free drinks when you ask the bar tender how to say something in Greek.
• The historical sites in Greece rock (pun intended)
• The Acropolis is much higher than it appeared in the Olympics. Bring a bottle of water for the accent.
• But most importantly, Uzo is not your friend.

So endeth the lesson.