{"id":7119,"date":"2016-12-01T10:54:04","date_gmt":"2016-12-01T08:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thesandbox.eu\/el\/2016\/12\/01\/greek-action-peter-thomas\/"},"modified":"2022-10-05T19:59:17","modified_gmt":"2022-10-05T16:59:17","slug":"greek-action-peter-thomas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omilo.com\/el\/greek-action-peter-thomas\/","title":{"rendered":"USA student talks about his Greek course in Athens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I knew I wanted to take some Greek lessons in Athens, since I was planning my walking trip in Greece. Only,\u00a0 I wasn\u2019t sure where. Someone I knew suggested The Atens Center, and I looked closely at this school on the web. It was appealing in certain ways, but I decided to keep looking. My Google search took me to Omilo.<\/p>\n<p>So I studied <a href=\"https:\/\/omilo.com\/el\/%cf%84%ce%bf%cf%80%ce%bf%ce%b8%ce%b5%cf%83%ce%af%ce%b5%cf%82\/%ce%b7-%ce%b1%ce%b8%ce%ae%ce%bd%ce%b1\/\">at Omilo, in Athens<\/a>, for two weeks before heading for the hills. I took private lessons the first week, and a group class the second.<\/p>\n<p>Although Omilo says\u2014quite correctly\u2014that they do not provide a homestay option, my experience was in fact very close to a homestay. The school arranged for me to stay with a very welcoming older woman in her large apartment, less than a ten-minute walk to the school. Kyria Ioanna made me breakfast every morning, and we chatted a little in my rudimentary Greek as I ate\u2014and she was usually home in the evenings, so I would exchange a few words with her again then.<\/p>\n<p>Another thing I loved about this arrangement was the proximity to <a href=\"https:\/\/omilo.com\/el\/sygrou-park-athens\/\">Syngrou\u2014the very large park in Marousi<\/a>. This was a 10-minute walk from the Omilo school.\u00a0 What I usually did was walk there for an hour before class in the morning, and an hour after class (just before sunset) in the evening. (I love to walk!) When I needed to buy a special something, I walked through Syngrou to Kifissia, one of the wealthiest suburbs of Athens, where there are plenty of boutiques and high-end cafes. The walk to Kifissia from where I lived, through Syngrou, took about 45 minutes. Or sometimes I took the metro\u2014just one stop.<\/p>\n<p>My Greek lessons in Athens came to an end, and I said goodbye to my classmates and thanked the <a href=\"https:\/\/omilo.com\/el\/%cf%80%ce%bf%ce%b9%ce%bf%ce%b9-%ce%b5%ce%af%ce%bc%ce%b1%cf%83%cf%84%ce%b5\/%ce%ba%ce%b1%ce%b8%ce%b7%ce%b3%ce%b7%cf%84%ce%ad%cf%82-%ce%ba%ce%b1%ce%b9-%cf%80%cf%81%ce%bf%cf%83%cf%89%cf%80%ce%b9%ce%ba%cf%8c\/\">Omilo-team<\/a>.<br \/>\n(<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/T-hazx3I4k4\">take a look at the video of the last day, with Thomas and his classmates<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>My walking holiday now started.<br \/>\nOne evening in the mountains, we were at a caf\u00e9 in a small village. Everyone there was very simply dressed, but suddenly a man in expensive outdoor gear came in. He immediately came to our table and asked us, in fluent English, if he could help us in any way. We chatted for a bit, and\u2014as we were chatting\u2014I ordered something to eat. 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