After our long walk through the city, we stopped at a restaurant where a very kind gentleman offered us tasty sandwiches and water (all of us were starving and thirsty).

At the end of the day we went to the restaurant where we will have dinner during the week, "Attitude Mygdalia," we had a full feast and tried several dishes. It's a good restaurant, I think it was a good choice. After dinner, me, David, Antonio, Iara and Duarte, went on a walk to see how the city looks at night.

This morning we visited our internship location, "Lexis," a school focused on teaching foreign languages. Today we just chatted to get to know each other better and to define what we're going to do during this month. Antony, the owner of the school, is a super cool and chill guy who welcomed us warmly, with open arms. 

He also took us to a small bakery for breakfast, David and I bought a vanilla and chocolate cake.

At night we had dinner at the same place, the owner offered us a salad wich was really kind of him, I ate a burgguer but forgot to take a picture.  After we all finished we went on a walk and stopped at an arcade where we played some games.

This morning I had a coffee for breakfast, and then went straight to Lexis where we removed 30 SSDs from computers to begin cloning them and installing a new operating system.

In the afternoon, after working on our blog, we returned to Lexis and had fun chatting with the students there until it was time for dinner. We ate at the usual restaurant, I had smoked pork with a side of fries, I normally don't eat pork meat, but this one was very tasty! 

After dinner we all went to our colleagues apartment to play Uno. I forgot to take a picture:( .

After the lunch break, we returned to Lexis to continue cloning the SSDs. We realized that what we were doing wasn't working because it was taking too long, so we talked to Antony and he gave us another computer where instead of cloning the SSDs via cable, we do it directly on the computer.

After the internship we went to dinner at a different restaurant called "βάτραχος", which means "frog" in Greek, because our usual restaurant is closed on Wednesdays. I had a club sandwich which was good but not amazing. But overall it's a good restaurant.

Another morning cloning and testing SSDs. Unfortunately, I think we did something wrong because the SSDs weren't working :(.

This time, instead of cloning SSDs, Antony needed help from me and David, since we're both studying programming. His student needed help creating a blog, just like I'm doing here, but she didn't know which site to use. So we showed her Google Sites, but there was a problem: she had a Google account with parental controls. So we created a new account for her to use for the blog and taught her how to use Google Sites.

I also noticed that Antony has a motherboard hanging on the wall.

Today we went back to the same restaurant as always for dinner. I had schnitzel with cheese sauce and fries, which I didn't like because of the cheese (I don't like cheese), but today they had salads that were very good. After dinner we spent some time at the other colleagues' apartment chatting.

Today, instead of going straight to work, Antony took us to the cafe across the street for breakfast. David and I shared a "Bougatsa," which is like a pie with a filling, we had the cream filling one, which tastes similar to Portuguese "arroz doce" (rice pudding). They also have some with salty fillings, like cheese, mushrooms, and meat. I really enjoyed it, and I'll definitely go back for "Bougatsa" again!

After breakfast we went to do our work, cloning SSDs.

This time in the afternoon, Antony gave us a ride in his car to one of the other Lexis location, where we went to install the cloned computers and meet other students. Unfortunately, the computer was having problems, but it was solved, at least temporarily.

Dinner was at our usual restaurant, this time I had a hamburger which was delicious.

Today started with coffee at Coffee Island, a local coffee shop, and right after we went to the bus station to buy our tickets to Thessaloniki.

As soon as we arrived in Thessaloniki, we took the bus to the city center with the help of some girls who were at the station, and went straight to have lunch at a KFC-style restaurant called "Crats".

I was starving so I ordered a menu that included a hamburger, fries, 1 sauce, and 3 fried chicken fillets, and of course a water, to try and balance the meal (didn't work), but it was really good, maybe because I was so hungry.

After lunch, David, Antonio, Francisco, and I were deciding what to do next, and we came to the conclusion that it would be fun to go to the Illusion Museum, which was near the center.

The Illusion Museum was a lot of fun, it had a lot of activities. One of my favorites was the tunnel. It was a small corridor with a mirror at the end. The surrounding walls seemed to have a fabric or something similar that was spinning , and then there was a walkway. While walking on the walkway, it felt like we were also spinning and that we were going to fall.

After the illusion museum and a quick stop at the coffee shop, we went to visit a warship that's on display, a museum on the water. It was very interesting

At the end of the museum, there's a souvenir room where we could buy things, and there was a book there that we could sign and leave a message – clearly, we left a message from our country!

After visiting the museums, we went for a walk to kill time before it was time to leave. We took a bus back to the bus station and waited for ours. We were supposed to take the 7 pm bus, but it was already full, so we had to wait another hour for the 8 pm one.

As soon as we arrived we went straight to eat at a restaurant called "All Time" where they make very good sandwiches. And then went straight back home. It was a really tiring day but it was worth it!

This Sunday I took the opportunity to rest and sleep in, so when I woke up it was already lunchtime. Since I didn't know exactly where to go, I ended up going to Goody's with David. Today we even ordered dessert! It was good as always.

After lunch we went home and each of us worked on our blogs. Saturday is the most painful day to work on them because Saturday is a day for going out, so we have a lot of things to add to the blog. I spent the whole afternoon doing it, and even took a nap afterwards.

Again, we only left the house to get something to eat, this time, dinner. Since we didn't know where to go and we had a good experience at the restaurant the day before, we went back there, to "All Time". When we were returning home, David and I met the others; they were going to get their dinner. We waited for them to finish eating and went to play snooker at a place near their house.

This Sunday was used to rest and recharge!

Today David and I started the morning with coffee at "Coffee Island," which is right next to Lexis, and then we went to work. Since we're studying programming, Antony said we could work on the Lexis website and improve it, so we spent the morning exploring and thinking about what we could do to help Antony. We're working with WordPress, something we've never used before, so today we explored how it works. We concluded that the best thing would be to have access to the code itself, but we only realized this at the end of the morning shift, so we'll talk to Antony tomorrow.

At lunchtime we went to get a sandwich from the nice gentleman at "813". I asked him to make me a sandwich without cheese, just meat and sauces. He put in a potato salad and another with mayonnaise with things I couldn't identify inside. It was very good and filled me up quite a bit!

We also went to the supermarket to buy things to make lunch at home.

In the afternoon we returned to Lexis and Antony gave us a ride to another Lexis building. This one was smaller than the others we'd been to, it only had one room. We went there to set up another of the computers we'd cloned and meet the students at this Lexis. Everything went well until it was time to leave. I was starving; this building is about a 20-minute walk from our house. David and I were just being guided by Alexandre and Francisco, and after climbing quite a lot of the street, they decided they wanted to go see a park. I didn't feel like it at all because I was starving, so David and I walked another 20 minutes to get home and eat a nice bowl of cereal.

For dinner, we went back to the same place as always, but this time I ate something different: chicken nuggets. They were okay, I didn't love them.

This morning we stopped by "Coffee Island" to buy our morning coffee, and we also stopped by the corner pastry shop to buy a cream-filled Bougatsa, I completely fell in love with that pastry. Then we went straight to Lexis to eat breakfast and then straight to work. We spoke with Antony about the conclusions we reached the previous day, and he gave us the access. We started exploring ways to work and download the code, with the help of artificial intelligence. For now, we haven't been able to put the code into Visual Studio because to be able to modify and see the updates we make to the code, we need a database, since everything is in PHP. We're still struggling with a solution.

This time in the afternoon we went to another Lexis building. We went to install the cloned computers in the classrooms and socialize with the students to practice our English together. This building had several classrooms, but only 3 were being used, it was the largest we've been to so far.

Today we went back to the same restaurant as always, this time I had chicken fillets with fries, it was good. We didn't go for a walk after dinner today.

The 25th is Independence Day, so we had the day off. I took the opportunity to rest and sleep in. When I woke up I was a little bored, so I watched "Despicable Me" until I fell asleep again.

Today was a very lazy day, so I ordered lunch through "efood," an app similar to Uber Eats. I ordered a chicken burger and fries, for some unknown reason, they don't sell set menus here, so everything has to be ordered separately. I was surprised by the price, it was super cheap, as if I had eaten at a restaurant. And I only paid €1 for delivery; in Portugal, I would pay around €3.

Once again, we went to the restaurant of the week. Today I had a burger and realized I'm already a bit tired of it.

Today we're back at work, we stopped by the pastry shop to, obviously, buy a Bougatsa, so good! 

After breakfast we went to work on the Lexis website, I feel that today David and I have already made some progress, he managed to access the database and open the site locally, but for some reason some buttons take us to the public site and not to the local host, accessing the database and getting the site to open on the local host was quite complicated and took up all morning, but tomorrow we will officially change and update the site!

Once again I cooked for me and David, and of course I made pasta with cream and bacon. After lunch I updated the blog and played The Sims 4 until it was time to go back to my next work shift.

Once again in the afternoon we visited another Lexis building, this time the one where they do the exams. Today we didn't install any computers, we just talked to the students and teachers. At the end of the shift, they offered each of us juice and water, which I thought was very sweet. I haven't tried the cherry juice yet.

This time we had dinner at home because, as I explained the day before, the restaurant where we have reservation is closed on Wednesdays, but yesterday they changed it and instead of closing on Wednesday they closed on Thursday, only this week. We ordered food from eFood, the fee this time was 36 cents, so cheap. I ordered carbonara pasta, and I was expecting regular pasta, but it came with a layer of cheese on top. I was so full I couldn't finish it all.

Just another normal day at Lexis. David and I continued trying to work on the website. We finally managed to access the localhost, but another problem arose. Even when we changed the code and opened it via localhost, nothing changed. We fiddled and fiddled with the code, and nothing changed. I think maybe we're changing the wrong place, but unfortunately, time flies by so fast at Lexis that when we looked at the clock after trying countless solutions, it was already time to leave. We're doing everything we can, and I know we'll succeed.

Today we all decided to go to Goody's. I ordered the same thing as last time, a sandwich with breaded chicken, lettuce, and Parmesan cheese. It was good, but nothing special (unfortunately I forgot to take a picture). Afterwards, David and I came home and worked on the blog until it was time to go back to Lexis.

Once again we visited a new Lexis, the students there were very communicative, and it's always fun and interesting to see the way people from other countries think and how curious they are about ours.

Today we went to dinner at the same place as always, this time we ate something different, thank goodness, I can't stand hamburgers anymore. Today it was chicken with mustard sauce and pita bread. When the waiter came to the table he described this dish as fried chicken, so I thought it would be like breaded chicken. It was a small misunderstanding, but it was quite good.

This Saturday, Kostis and a friend, Dimitri, drove us to Virginia, a small village about 30 minutes from Viria, to visit the Aigai Royal Tombs Museum. It was quite interesting and a different experience. The tombs are located under a small hill, and it was all dark to simulate what it was like when they were found. There were numerous exhibits of everything that was found inside, and a short film about the history, produced by the man who discovered them.

After the museum we went for a walk near the lake where the three rivers "Tripotamos" flow into. Unfortunately, it started to rain, so we didn't go very far.

As soon as Kostis and Dimitri dropped us back in Veria, we went straight to eat. I was craving a real meal, so we went to an Italian restaurant we pass every day. It was so delicious! I ordered a carbonara, which also came oven-baked, I already realised that's a local specialty, and it was super good. I ate everything!

Me, David, Antonio, and Francisco, besides having lunch together, decided to go for a walk. David and I started by stopping at "Coffee Island" and each ordered a latte for our little walk. We walked around and then Antonio went to "Espresso World", another coffee shop. We stayed a while on the terrace and when we were heading back to the center we passed by an ice cream shop that looked super good, of course we had to try it. I bought a small cup with a scoop of Ferrero Rocher ice cream.

Afterwards, we each went to our apartments to work on the blog, and I played a little bit of The Sims 4 until dinner time.

After walking around the city for a bit looking for a place to eat, we finally decided to try the famous "gyros". I thought I would get nauseous, but it was actually quite good.

We decided to go to a restaurant near the only supermarket open at that hour because we needed to buy snacks for tomorrow's trip. Since we'd forgotten to do that during the day, the supermarket was a bit overpriced, but what could we do?

Today started like any other day, David and I got ready to get coffee at "Coffee Island". We had a transfer waiting for us at 8:30, because we're going to Meteora!

We boarded the transfer and only got off about two hours later to take a break at a service station that had plenty of things, from clothes and accessories to food and souveniers. We returned to the car and after a total of 4 long hours we finally arrived at the top of the mountains where the monasteries are located.

We finally reached the top and the driver said we would be staying at this monastery for 1 hour.

The view from the top of the mountain is unbelievably beautiful. Inside, the monastery had several rooms with religious items and beautifully decorated walls. It was all very pretty, but unfortunately we couldn't take photos inside the rooms. There was always a sign on the door that said "no photos, no videos," so I couldn't take pictures to show on the blog.

But here are some pictures of the outside and the view!

After an hour we got back in the van. It was lunch time, but we thought we were going to continue seeing the monasteries, in fact, the driver was taking us to the city for lunch. Again, the driver said we had an hour to be in the city and have lunch, so we walked around the city while looking for something to eat. We returned to the center and ended up eating at a pizzeria. I had a ham pizza, which was quite good.

When we got home I did the blog and also played a little bit of The Sims 4. When dinner time came, David and I weren't very hungry, so we decided to try other flavors of Bougatsa. We bought two cream-filled ones and one half meat and half pizza. I really liked the meat one and I want to eat it again. We ended up only eating two, so we saved the leftovers for breakfast.

This morning started like any other: I showered, got ready, ate the leftover Bougatsa from yesterday's dinner, and went to Lexis. Finally, David and I are editing the website. While David was working with Elementor and figuring out how to write code, I was looking for a new color palette. I used Adobe Color to get the tones from the Lexis logo and made changes to the website's colors.

We're using shades of turquoise, it's much cleaner and more pleasing to the eye.

Once again in the afternoon we went to a different Lexis to install the cloned computers. Since we went later today, we didn't talk much with the students, but they each prepared a question and we answered them. There was also a group of younger children who stayed longer, but since they were small and didn't know how to speak or understand English, we just went there to say hello and introduce ourselves.

Today we went to the same restaurant as always and I ate the chicken with mustard sauce and pita bread again; at least it's something different and breaks away from the typical burger concept.

Today David and I left home early and went to eat a cream-filled Bougatsa at the pastry shop across from Lexis. We ate and everything went well, but when we went to pay, the man said there was no internet, so we could only pay with cash. Neither of us had any cash. So the man told us to pay later. After this unexpected event, it was time to go to Lexis, so we did our work there, advanced the website, and started publishing the updates we're making. Below is a before and after with some changes like the color palette, for example!

We went to withdraw money from an ATM pay the Bougatsa as soon as we left Lexis.

Once again, for a change, I cooked lunch for myself and David, yes, once again pasta with cream and bacon. The truth is, if I could, I'd live on pasta with cream.

At least it's something healthy and a real meal instead of just eating sandwiches.

Once again in the afternoon we went to visit another Lexis building. This one is small, but not the smallest, it has two rooms. Today, Antonio decided to join us in the afternoon. Unfortunately, he didn't get a clue about what we usually do because the classes today were very shy and quiet. But anyway, we did our job: exchanging computers and interacting a bit with the students.

Today our usual restaurant was closed, so we went to a different place recommended by Antonio and Francisco. We went to an Italian restaurant called "Olive," and I ordered a carbonara. Surprising, right?

It was really good. It was a great recommendation. Thank you, Antonio and Francisco.

Today we had a meeting with Professor Duarte Duarte and Professor Elisabete Dias, where we talked about internships and what we do there, about the problems and difficulties, and about our blogs, everything went well. Afterwards, the colleagues from the other apartment stayed and spent some time with us, and that's how the day ended today!

This morning when we were about to leave the house it was raining, and we didn't have umbrellas, so we messaged Antony to ask if we could work from home until the rain stopped. He was a sweetheart and said yes and that there was no problem at all (advantages of being a programmer). So instead of going to Lexis, David and I worked on the website at home. I think you could say it's officially finished and published. Unfortunately, we couldn't go to Lexis this morning because it didn't stop raining. :(

In the afternoon, Antony texted us to let us know that we wouldn't be going to any of the new Lexis buildings today because of the bad weather (it didn't stop raining for a second today). So David and I took the opportunity to watch movies, sleep, and of course I played a little bit of The Sims 4 while he played on his phone. 

Once again we went to the restaurant where we have reservations all week. Today I ordered some nuggets with fries, they were okay. Today was quite a boring day because we had to stay home due to the rain; I couldn't even go out for a coffee.

Even though it was raining today, David and I braved the rain and went to Lexis. Since we'd already finished our internship assignment, Antony gave us the school's VR glasses to try out. I also used the free time to update the blog and get things done quickly.

We've been to Lexis before, I think it was the first building we visited. We came to install the rest of the computers in other classrooms and talk to the students.

Today we went to dinner at the same place as always, and I ordered a chicken wrap, finally something different. It was good, but they overdo it a bit with the sauces, they put too much sauce on the food. After dinner, David, Francisco, Antonio, and I went to play snooker at a bar near their apartment. It was fun, and it was good to get out of the house after spending the previous day indoors.

Today David and I left home at our usual time and went for our morning coffee. We're off today because tomorrow morning we're helping Antony with his IT exams. So today was focused on walking around the city and relaxing.

Our first stop was H&M, where I bought the cutest top ever, which I'd had my eye on since the beginning of the Erasmus. Our next stop was a store similar to "Worten" in Portugal, Basically the same thing, an electronics and appliances store. And finally, we went to a makeup store that I'd wanted to visit for a while, but it didn't have anything special.

After this small walk through the city, we went to Goody's for lunch because David was craving it, I had a Bolognese since I didn't feel like having a burger. It was good, but nothing special. Next, we went to the supermarket to do some grocery shopping.

After our morning out, we needed to put away our groceries, but Friday is the day the cleaning lady comes to clean our apartment. When we got home she was still there, so we left our groceries and waited about 20 minutes for her to finish. While we waited, we noticed a small area with some ducks right next to the house, so instead of going for a walk, we went to see the ducklings.

We spent the rest of the afternoon relaxing and playing games until dinner time. Once again we went to the reserved restaurant and, since I liked the chicken wrap from the previous day, I ended up ordering it again. It was good, it seemed to have less sauce today.

Last Friday, Antony gave us the day off in exchange for us spending the morning helping him with his students' IT exams, so this Saturday we went to work. Antonio, who is a colleague doing an internship at the library, came to accompany us and see how the exams work here in Veria. We stayed there for four hours and when we left it was already lunchtime..

After resting a bit, our colleague Antonio invited us to go for a coffee, which we obviously accepted. We had our coffee at Coffee Island and chatted on the terrace for a while, until we decided to go play snooker at the bar near the others' apartment.

When we looked at the clock it was already dinner time and the restaurant chosen for tonight was the Italian restaurant "Olive", where I ate an incredibly good carbonara. We stayed there talking for quite a while and then we went home.

This Sunday, we didn't know what to do, and since almost everything is closed on weekends, especially in small towns, we decided to return to Thessaloniki and explore the area.

When we arrived, it was already lunch time and we were all hungry, so we went to the shopping mall closest to the bus station to have lunch and walk around.

When we arrived it looked like everything was going to be closed, but it was just the supermarket. It was big, with three floors, and the top floor was just for food. We went straight to the third floor for lunch, I ate at Crats Mexican, it was very good, just like Taco Bell. Then we walked around for a little bit.

After walking around the outlet mall, we took a bus to the city center to visit the War Museum of Thessaloniki.

When we left the museum, we were heading towards the White Tower when we looked to the side and saw another very tall white tower. We thought it was just a random tower, but then we found this sign saying there was a cafe up there with free entry. And we decided to go check it out.

When we left the cafe at the Skyline Tower, we went in search of our main objective, the White Tower. We walked around there and then remembered we had to go back to Veria, so we took the bus back to the bus station and waited for the 8 pm bus back to Veria.

When we arrived it was already late and we were all tired, so we decided to go eat again at "All Time", since it's quick, cheap and on the way home.

Today was a different kind of workday. Antony took us to visit the company that makes Lexis' English textbooks, "SuperCourse." They gave us a guided tour of the book publisher's facilities. It was quite different and interesting, and at the end they gave us an English book for adults who already speak English to improve their vocabulary. After our time spent on SuperCourse, Antony gave us de rest of the day off.

In front of the publishing house building, there was a supermarket that we had never seen before, so we went to visit and see what it was like.

Once again, I cooked pasta for me and for David.

This afternoon, besides working on the blog, David and I met up with Antonio and went for a bougatsa, and then, to kill time before dinner, we went to another very large supermarket, with 2 floors, to walk around.

Finally, dinner time, once again at the same restaurant as always, I ordered a chicken wrap again. It was good.