It's all Greek to me

     Just the other day I was thinking...wow, I'm ONLY on day 17 and I said I would do this for a year?!?  Today I was drawing a complete blank.  My dear friend gave me a new list of suggestions and as soon as I saw one of them I knew it was the one for me!  "Learn to count to ten in a new language"...hmmm, let's see I can do it in English, Spanish, French, almost in German and in ASL.  THEN it hit me...I will be spending the morning with my new crew at the Stratakos house.   Leigh Ann patiently  reviewed the numbers with me several times.  Joanne even gave me a note with the pronunciations.   As I prepared dinner tonight I reviewed and reviewed and by the ding of the timer I finally could remember them all.   It was fun to flex a new brain muscle, connect a new synapse and add a little something to this old brain of mine.  It was even more fun to escape from  the dreary, grey landscape to the sunny coast of Greece even if only for a little while and only in my imagination.