How I know...

one: that the Communist Party in Greece is not dead: they are taking out ads on Facebook. I'm not kidding -- yesterday my roommate was in the Academic Center checking her Facebook, and the ad on the side was from the KKE/KNE, which is the Greek Communist Party and the Greek Communist Youth Party, respectively. I don't know what the rest of the ad said, because it was all in Greek, but seriously, the Communist Party? On Facebook? Really?

two: that the Aegean is very salty: I went swimming in it. Yesterday, my roommates and I went to a beach, since everyone else had gone to a beach over the past couple of weeks, I hadn't yet, and the season was rapidly drawing to an end. We got off of the tram at this random beach, since we were getting tired of riding along the line. Said beach turned out to be really rocky, with no sand at all. The day was also much on the cooler side from the ideal beach weather that had prevailed over the last couple of weeks. Still, we went into the water, which was still warm, and very salty. It burned your throat if you accidentally got any into your mouth, and I was very careful not to get any in my eyes for the same reason. It was fun. Then we got out of the water and lay down on our towels over the rocks (well, more like pebbles) that made up the beach until we dried off. The sun was somewhat warm on us, but it was windy and the air was getting cooler, so we left after only about two hours there in total. My roommates inform me that this was somewhat of a failure as a beachgoing expedition, but I still had fun.

three: that I take too many pictures upon occasion: my camera's batteries are dead. Well, dying, because my camera will turn on for intervals of up to approximately 15 seconds and then switch itself off again. I just changed the batteries in my camera a week and a half ago, and before that just before I left for Athens. This is unacceptable. Would anyone happen to know the Greek for "rechargable battery"?