Post-feast

Break fast was great - we managed to somehow find bagels (sort of - they tasted like bagels, but were much thinner and were called something else)/lox/cream cheese and to make kugel (along with some other more Greek dishes). My friend Samantha had a recipe for the kugel, so on Friday we went to the supermarket to get the ingredients. The Greek language book I have had the phrase for "sour cream" in it, and I went up to a clerk and asked where to find it. She was completely confused, and had to call over at least two other people to try and figure it out. They finally went "aha!" and brought me over to the milk section and handed me a thing of yogurty-milk. Maybe they thought I could let it go sour? We used Greek yogurt instead and it turned out fantastically - Sam is a master chef!

I've found that trying to say something in Greek and mangling it is received much better than just going for it in English. With some stuff I just don't know what the Greek would be, but the salespeople like it when we say "please," "thank you," "how are you?", etc. in Greek.