Seven days, seven photos

Seven days, seven photos

The Vellidiou conference centre. It has a wonderful blue, green light which makes it look very unusual at night. This photo is my wallpaper of choice.

Statue in the centre.

Contrasting the ancient and the modern. The haggard and the smooth.

Lydia and me doing her homework. She has yet another nationalist poem to remember by heart.

Leonidas and his friends. Taken in Aristotelis Square during the week while I was taking photos of the passers by.

Lydia and her brother, Kostis. He's just back from his national service basic training. On Monday He 's off to continue his training on a base near the city.

Doing a lesson this week. This one was based on listening to a song which gives advice and then choosing the the most useful life tips.

Seven days, seven photos

Taken from the new Starbucks on Egnatia.

This a new group I've just started teaching. For most of them English is their third language, not to mention third writing system.

This was sprayed on the wall in Paikou St. Think of it as a visual palimpsest.

One of my students goofing off after class with his "nose ring".

Passer-by on Egnatia.

Lydia deciding on which flavour ice cream she wanted.

The locked gate on an abandoned shop(?) in the centre.

Seven days, seven photos

My Proficiency class preparing for their Michigan speaking exam by interviewing each other.

Some American Mormons preaching in Navarinou Square on Friday night. Just to the left were the junkies on their way to get their next hit in the alleys behind the square.

The hidden symmetry of cities

This was once a mosque during Ottoman times. Now it is an art gallery.

The local punk scene. It is enough to make you nostalgic seeing 80's style mohicans.

Helen and Maria doing their interviews.

"Either them or us. Struggle to the end.

Down with the new proposals."

Seven days, seven photos - the Flickr group.

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Seven days, seven photos

A bus passing by.

On Tuesday university students closed down Egnatia St and held a party. This was one of the bands playing on a stage that overlooks the road opposite the Trade Fair.

Lydia engrossed in one of her favourite sites on the internet. Basically, she's teaching herself to read in English in this way. I did the same thing with comics when I was her age.

This was taken in the local park on Clean Monday. The council had organised free food and entertainment and this lady was sat next to me eating her souvlaki and bread.

Taken in the train station, before I was asked to leave. Apparently, you need special permission from the station manager to take pictures.


Outside the railway station here in Thessaloniki. Permission not needed for these photos.

Hateful Graffiti on wall near the PAOK basketball stadium. I won't translate it, suffice to say these neanderthals have a vocabulary as limited as it is vicious.