Day 2 in Athens

I didn't post last night because it got too late. Yesterday morning, my class had lecture followed by a tour of some of Athens all before lunch. We saw one of the statues of Byron and a few little dig sites that have been left undeveloped that were uncovered during the digging of the Athens metros. I didn't take a camera on that trip, but it'll be places that I see quite often in transit, so I'm sure I'll get some eventually. The group had lunch at the school cafeteria, and the some of us headed back to the apartments. I ended up sleeping for about 4 hours.
At 7:45 our class met up and walked to a restaurant at which we all had our "taverna dinner". The dinner was at the expense of the school and there was lots of good wine! I enjoyed myself, meeting some of the other students in the class and getting to socialize a bit. After dinner and at about 11 o'clock, three of the girls and I headed back to our apartment (there are six total in our apartment) and found that a friend of Haley's (one of my flat mates) had been locked in for three hours without food, so the two of us walked a mile and a half across town (all uphill) to get her home and food. The walk back was much more pleasant, being all downhill.
This morning the class met up in front of the Parliament building at Syntagma (the center of the city) and walked down to the ancient city. We got to see the remains of the dipylon gate, which was the main entrance to the ancient city, with its fountain house for water. We also got to see the remains of the sacred gate and sacred way, which led down to the academic road that wemt to Plato's academy. It was lined with burials. We also got to walk the street of the tombs that had replicas of the old monuments that are now in the museum there. I should be uploading a few pictures of this soon.
We then walked to the agora, but did not actually see as much of it as we eventually will. We just got a bit of a lecture in the shade there. Lunch was a nice pasta and salad, and now I'm back to the room for a bit of napping and homework before some evening fun. My roommate Christina's birthday is today and so I think we might go out a bit tonight with some of the flat mates and have dinner or some such.