THE END!!!!!
The fat lady is singing....
Light the Victory Cigar.

Cape Town has left
the building.......

9 hours and 58 minutes....And Counting

The time has come...its almost ova....oh I can hear the LELEBIRDS sitting outside my window....

Time to light up that cigar....waiting for the Fat lady to sing!!

Salute!

MAMA Africa....I'm coming back.

Nkosi Sikeleli iAfrika.....

5 DAYS LEFT...

Oh my goodness gracious me...five days and gone like the wind...back....back to my glorious Cape Town with its glorious beaches, chicks, and touble mountain. Summer....I'll be like an Eskimo on clifton beach. Need a tan hey bru. Need to get boardies....need to get some vests....some shades....

Po po po po...all this talk of summer is making me go LELELELELELELELELEL.

5 more days and then no more kakking in holes. 5 more days and no more ordering gyros for lunch and supper coz you missed lunch. No more sleeping bags....no more guard duty....no more...no more!!!!! Muahahahahahahahaha

Anyways....gotta keep it together giati DEN TIN PALEVO ALLO....

I CAN HEAR THE LELE BIRDS!!!

Speaking of birds....my army buddies were braggibg to me and showing me Greek FHMs and Maxims of Greek women so I thought I'd show them some of South africa's talent....

Check it out... on the top....

I could do with a BRAAI...bru.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vq2SOmwzjUU&mode=related&search=

The word braaivleis (pronounced "bry-flays") is Afrikaans for "roasted meat".

A typical braai on a small braaistand

The word braai (pronounced "bry", rhyming with the word "cry") is Afrikaans for "barbecue" or "roast" and is a social custom in South Africa. It originated with the Afrikaner people, but since has been adopted by South Africans of many ethnic backgrounds. The word vleis is Afrikaans for "meat", so in this word, the "s" is not a plural.

The word has been adopted by English-speaking South Africans and can be regarded as another word for barbecue, in that it serves as a verb when describing how food is cooked and a noun when describing the cooking equipment, such as a grill.

From Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braai

I just couldnt resist not putting this photo up.
After weeks of playing Biriba and Psiri...
Myself and Gianni decided to change the scenery and the tension and bring to the Thalamo...

POKER!!!!

We wereplaying with money...butif we did we'dbe owing eachother STACKs of money.
Ok...soldiers aint that great at bluffing...but hell do they bet BIG!

Our Ash tray...hand crafted by the Cape Tonian
to make it less possible for people to ash into my Coca Cola can

Me and Theodoros Mylonas...he was pretty much the
"vice-captain" of the team

In our THALAMO

Ahoyyyyyyyyyyy

Wow....its been a long time since I've put some decent info down here. Sorry abt that people, I've been quite busy at the ARMy lately...BELiEvE it Or NoT!

So lemme give you a quick round up from where I left off..Oh wait before that I'm gonna explain what the LELEDONIA are.

The last month before a soldier finishes his army is prob the most exciting yet crazy month. Its the month he is with his LELE. Einai sta LELE tou. LELE is derived from the phrase...Trelenome Apoliome. TRELELELELELELELELELNOME!!!!!

Now what are the LELEDONIA? Or the LELEBIRDS as me and my team mates joke around with since I've taught them some English words.

The LELEDONIA are the birdies that bring the papers that say YOU ARE FREE TO GO! Go away away to your home and NEVER do army again! Yeeeahaaaa.. Now I feel good about this...but imagine the boys who do 12 months. Imagine how happy they would be! Yeh! So respect to those boys. My whole team did 12 months...watch them tear down their army clothes the day they finish.

If you want me to explain the feeling..I cant..well just a little. How did you feel when you finished MATRIC? We tore down our school clothes and ran around with sutff written on our white shirt and we ran around playing pranks on teachers. Well imagine that feeling mulitplied by 100. So yeh....good feeling hey?!?!

So....EIMASTE STA LELE MAS!!!

I can hear the LELE birds!

Anyways....what happened sonce Christmas...well before Xmas I went to Cyprus to spend time with my sister and her gorgeous baby girl and Christo. Aijajiajiaija is she CUTE or what!! Maria-Chrysi is such a cutie pie! Uncle Kosta is gonna bring her lotsa prezzies next time he comes from Africa. Watch this girl become the most intelligent hottie in the world! But yeh...watch out boys...you gotta get through her crazy uncle before you want to go on a date with her...20 year later..:D

We celebrated MC's 1st birthday..in style...there was even Smarties! Yay! Anyways...in the last few days in Cyprus I picked up a flu virues which took me out 1 TIME! For a week I was out. I had to go back to the base on the 22nd to pick up papaer for leave till 28 Dec. Now you ask me why I didnt spend Xmas in Cyprus.....coz the effing army didnt let me. They only gave me roaming permision for 6 days! So I had to fly back...being sick and all....just to pick a paper...then leave on an 1 hour bus trip to Athens where I spent Xmas in bed getting better. On the 28th I return to the base...so there I am and we spending our New Years inside! So what do I do? I pull out my laptop for a once off occaion...put on the Greek music and start dj'ying for the boys!!! So in the end...New Years was really cool! Compared to other soldiers' new Years. we were playing card games....enjoying good music....talking all night...we even went to cut the vasilopita etc. Dammit I almost won the flouri.

Anyways...yeh New Years was decent. The down side of being in during the festivities is that you do double duties coz people go on leave. So we've beein keopt in and out. Working our dutues on the double. Very tiring! But in this time where i spent full time in the base at the Company...I got closer to my team mates...we became friends..not just team mates. I taught them english...they taught me greek...I've discovered a whole new world of Greeklsih...and Greek swear words you'll ONLY find in the army...and in the Ioanina and in Thessaloniki! But yeh! its all good.

We're counting the days till we leave forever. Every morning someon sin our rom shout ins a Greek accent...Can you hear them Kep Taoun?(Cape Town) The LELE birds...they are coming. :D

So yeh...slowely we getting there boys and girls!

17 days left!!!