The name: It's All Greek To Me

Guess what this is!?

You're right! It's a coffee shop! Was it the words or the pictures of animals that gave it away??

Seriously I rely on very poor pictures and unreliable facial expressions to figure out what in the world is going on around here. All the signs, labels, every word around here in written in Greek AND there is no english underneath it or anything since this is a smaller town it's completely greek. The adults here don't speak english either except some of the adults on harding's campus (not all of them though). So talk about culture shock?! This is craziness! I only had travel size shampoo, conditioner, and toothpaste this morning so I decided I better go ahead and buy more this morning. Well all the students from Faulkner walked down to the girzteck (the pronunciation sounds like that spelling I think but I have no idea how to actually spell it because it's written in greek letters) to get a few things and the only thing I could read in that grocery store was "Nutella." I'm not kidding. Every thing was written so weird. They had shampoo that were some of the same brands we have at Wal-Mart back home but I could only tell because of what the bottle looked like but they don't differentiate the look of the bottle between shampoo and conditioner so I never could figure out which one was which. Most of the brands did not carry conditioner but I ended up opening up the bottles and looking inside to see which looked creamier. Hahaha. I just did not think about the language barrier being such an issue but it really is. I just assumed it'd be like spanish kind of since some spanish words are readable and kind of make sense in english especially if you know a little spanish from high school like I do. Anyway greek is nothing like any other language that I am familiar with or even seen in my life... I guess I knew that from the bible majors at Faulkner, but it just didn't click with me before I got here. That language almost seems impossible for me to ever read because the letters are nothing like our alphabet to me. I have learned how to say "hello" "thank you" and "excuse me" but even those I can hardly remember in the moment that I'm supposed to be saying them. However, it is my first full day here so I'll practice and get better! This is exciting! :)