Babe's dead, but I bought my first piece of meat in Greece!

No, I didn't buy pig head, tongue, or feet, but I did by some fresh pork at the outdoor meat market. I think the FDA would have something to say about how sanitary the conditions are there, but at least you know your meat is fresh. The shop owners like to shove the meat in your face as you walk by to try and entice you. It smells pretty awful because there are tons of vendors with dead animal or fish just sitting out on ice. Then every once in a while they decide to spray the lanes down and there is a fishy smelling water you have to walk through. BUT I decided to brave the odor and sights and ventured into the meat section and for only 1.80 euro I probably got the freshest pieces of pork I'll ever eat in my life. Now if I could just learn to cook it. If you have any recipes let me know... Plus the experience in general was a lot of fun. I got to use my very rough and broken Greek to talk to random meat sellers. There was an Albania and I was able to tell him I was from American, studying at ACT, and my name, as well as ask him his. I would say the day was a success!

In other news... after countless hours, four hospital trips, three bank trips, investing in Greek health insurance, endless paper work, trekking to the municipality, creating my own passport photos (I'm thinking of starting a business), and many euros, not to mention the stress of it all, I have finally been granted me TEMPORARY residence permit!! I'll honestly probably never see my real residence permit because of the processing time to get it, but I am officially not going to get kicked out of Greece in 90 days or arrested at the border when I try and enter or leave.