Who are all these people walking around like zombies on speed? I hear yelling and cars are driving by with their horns screaming. There is a water fountain and a bunch of people are trying to cool themselves. The temperature keeps rising. It is now 35C (or 95F) and it is meant to go up to 36C (96F) but they always lie, it always goes higher than what they say. I am in Greece! I am here for holidays with my family and oh my goat is it hot! I am used to the British climate and all this heat is making me tired. All I want to do is sleep.

I have been absent from the blog-world recently because I was all over the place. I spent last week seeing my friends and travelling to London and back. I had very little energy to blog when I got home and I haven’t even read other people’s blogs in days. It will take forever to catch up so I won’t be able to read all the entries I have missed but I will do my best.

I decided to come to Greece mostly because I want to spend as much time with my mum as possible. She is still very fragile, very swollen and taking certain drugs with weird names but that is not what scares me. What scares me is how different she looks. She looks more alive than ever but her shaved head and the scars look unreal. She looks a older in the way she moves and her hands shake like an old person’s. She wears a head scarf to protect herself from the sun and keep her head warm. She is doing okay though, she can’t do much around the house like cook, lift things or bend over to pick something up. She will recover fully though, at least that’s what the doctor said. However, it will take time.

In other news, today I will be going to see Linkin Park live! I can’t believe it! I have been a big fan of their music since they first started and somehow I always managed to miss them when they played in the UK. Who would have thought I’d finally manage to see them live in Greece? Not me, that’s for sure! Now, how I’m going to deal with going to a concert when it’s so hot out there, I don’t know. I’ll figure that out when the time comes.

I’ll try to take pictures for you but I won’t bring my camera with me because I don’t want to carry too much stuff on me. My phone has a decent camera on it so hopefully that will do.

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sun-of-a-beach!
not dealing with my stress, aka the denial approach
everything that can go wrong, WILL go wrong - Murphy’s Law or just another title for my life?
on the train to training 2 (part 1; oh no, not again)

Written by Colin Brooks on 25.06.08 at 11:17 am.