Saturday 14 April 2007

Athens is sunny but no longer familiar. In your absence, places change, people grow older. They have built shopping malls were parks used to be. Friends are scattered all over the world. Teenagers sit in starbucks and internet cafes. Even the bus routes are different. It's only been a few months..Where am I?

On TV politicians, pop singers and businessmen scream at each other. They always find someone to blame. Tearing their own country to pieces for the foreign media to see. Everyone (including me) complaining about everything.

But still, the light is blinding in the morning, bakeries smell of childhood treats, I can see the mountains out of my window, and there are moments I feel I own the whole city, like it owns me.