Greek Lover, Greek Lover

Two things have found me slipping back into memory more than usual this week and thinking about my old life in Greece this week: 1. Local 5th graders are working on their nationality projects for school, coming into the library seeking books on different nations. I loved this project when I was in school, loved assigning it when I was a teacher and love helping students with it as a librarian today. It's a gentle reminder to learn something new about a nation you know very little. 2. I'm reading a memoir called Lunch In Paris: A Love Story with Recipes. The author tells her tale of falling in love and marrying her husband in Paris. It's sweet, romantic, and leaves me wishing that myself and The Boy were living this spring on a back alley in a large, European city. Be it Paris, Athens, London or Madrid...it really wouldn't matter. Sounds lovely, doesn't it?

So with my mind back on Ilia Ilou, drinking retzina or even Amstel, getting excited to go to the sea on Sunday, I give you a list of my favorite Greek music videos. Because it's impossible not to want to dance and this music reminds me of walking around town after a big soccer game, the Olympics, Eurovision or a hard night at school.

1. Greek Lover: This song is dirty & ridiculous.

2. My Number One: Winner of Eurovision, the best song contest in the world, 2005. Holy crap, so long ago.

3. This is Our Night: Sakis Rouvas was pretty famous long before I got to Greece, but this was his Eurovision song last year.

4. Zorba the Greek: When I first had to read this book on my first trip to Greece as a college student, I couldn't get into it. Then I re-read and loved it. And now every time the movie is on, I have to stop and watch.

Greece has been in the news so much for their financial woes and I think about my friends/old students often. All of my thoughts of it lately though, made me want to talk about the fun side. Hellas!