Hello from Athens

I’m here! I’m in Athens, Greece!
I arrived here yesterday afternoon. At the airport here, also, they had a camera (I think it was a temperature scanner) and a woman asking each passenger where we flew from. I answered that I flew in from Cairo. She then asked where I was from, so I answered that I was from Japan. Then she wanted to know where I lived, so I said that I lived in the US. Then she looked confused but said “OK” and I was let go immediately.
I then exchanged Japanese yen to Euro at the airport. I knew the rate would not be great, but I just wanted to take care of it there. I had no luggage to pick up, so I went to the customs directly. Well, they had a little area called “Customs”, but there was no one working, so I exited right away.
Just outside the exit, my new friend, Thanasis, was waiting for me. He greeted me with kisses on my cheeks, and we introduced each other. Because we had seen pictures of each other, we didn’t need our secret codes but we still said them any way jokingly. I was supposed to say “Rose” which is actually the name of my good friend in Indiana who suggested that we’d have a secret code and Thanasis said “in Bloom”. (^^)
We rode the bus from the airport to his apartment. It took us about 40 minutes, and we left my bag and he explained how to use the bathroom (how to heat the water for bath and how to flush the toilet) and how to lock and unlock the doors (outside and inside). He said that if I can’t open the door outside, I can ring anyone in the building, and they’d open it for me. Then I wondered if we really needed the key to the outside door if that’s the case. (^^)
Then he asked me if I wanted to go sightseeing. His cousin works at Acropolis, so he took me there. First, we went to a supermarket nearby, because I was very thirsty. I bought a bottle of water, and a small bottle of lemon Fanta, because it had Greek writing on it. In Greece, they have fizzless, non-carbonated Fanta. I’ll try it at least once before I leave Greece, but I decided to wait for my brother instead of trying it alone.
We then walked to the metro station where we met with his friend, Nadia. She’s an architect, and Thanasis is an architecture student working on his PhD. They both speak very good English, and I had no problem communicating.