Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Ongoing Strikes

Altho the trash has not been picked up for 9 days and is creating overflowing colorful piles of plastic bags, there are no rats or gnawings by such creatures. Greece has no flies at this time of year, so that is not a problem, either. Dogs do sometimes get into bags. Then it is strewn about. We cannot get a local TV channel, only an internation CNN channel, so we have no idea when things will return to normal. Ted has a co-worker who rides public transportation to work. Normally it takes her one hour to get here. Yesterday it took three hours each way... and she only works five hours a day!! Last night the electricity was off for two hours again. Luckily I had just finished cooking dinner. The airport is on strike today for three hours, too!! Already one team that is supposed to attend the Sports Festival at ACG has cancelled, due to the unrest. I am coming to appreciate the things we take for granted in the US.

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