Monday, 13th January 1992

The very next day, when I finish work, I will go to a nearby store and buy a fine video player with four
heads, at a price of 130.000 drachmas. Later, as soon as I reach home, I will rent and watch my first
video film.

Saturday, 2nd April 1988

Early this morning mum and I went to Alice’s home, so as to help her move house. She and Antony have
just found an apartment which is newer, bigger and nicer than the old outhouse they have now. This
time we had to work even harder than any other time, doing extra household chores for her Majesty.
We had to fill up big boxes with stuff and carry them from one house to another. Thanks God the new
house is only a ten minute walk from the old one.

In the afternoon I was going for a walk, I happened to see Cleo an old schoolmate from elementary
school. For heaven’s sake, she is getting uglier and uglier every day! Her face is manly and so are her
arms, shoulders and legs. Full of muscles and this is not due to working out. Her body is more masculine
than any man’s! of course, it is a common secret that she is a hermaphrodite, a girl with male genitals
hidden inside, Cleo’s “mollycoddle”. During the rehearsals for the parade, my schoolmates never stop
admonishing me. “Move your arms higher!”… “Make bigger steps!”… “Go slower!” and so on.

This morning they really got on my nerves, so I turned back and told Joanna, who was the lead singer of
the serenade. “Why, are you jealous that I am in the first row?” They all shut up at the moment, but I
could feel they were already plotting the reprisals.

… On the day of the parade, the whole school will gather along the coastal road of Glyfada, and wait for
our turn to march the town dignitaries. As soon as Nelly Christides saw me, she groaned sarcastically.
“So, you are here! Couldn’t you have broken your leg and not have come?”. I didn’t utter a word, I was
only speechless at such malice from a person I considered a friend.

Thursday, 3rd November 1977

As soon as the bus to school came and the door opened before me, I came face to face with an unknown
pupil, who was looking at me mockingly. All at once he saluted me like a soldier and shouted “Heil

I interested in any of the suggested activities, although I can play the organ quite well, I can paint
potraits and I like cinema too. I can’t tell what exactly put me off, maybe the frequent repetition of
“there is a lot of work to be done by everybody”. Don’t we have enough homework already? In the end,
we were asked to raise hands and enter ourselves for any of those groups, I didn’t do so, not even once.

“Aren’t you interested in any of these activities?” asked Nina.

“They are all fine, but I’m not good at anything, neither at music, nor at dance, and I seldom go to the
cinema,” I replied hastily.

I don’t know what happened with that club finally, but I have never heard anything about it again…
Thursday, 17th May 1979

This afternoon, my cousin Annita and her mother paid us a visit. After a while, my sister suggested we go
to the local park. It sounded like a nice idea and we agreed at once.

No sooner had we arrived and sat on the

Wednesday, 19th September 1984

It was about 2:30 in the afternoon, when I had a phone call from a frenzied bloke who said she was the
owner of an English tutorial school in Alimos. He explained that he had just seen my advertisement in
the newspaper and that he was in urgent need of an English teacher, because one of his employees had
just quit her job. Then he demanded that t I should take a taxi and come to his school at once.

Twenty minutes later I was at his office. I was full of optimism, expecting to be hired on the spot.
However, as soon as he saw me, the bald, skinny, black dressed man made it clear that he wanted to get
rid of me as soon as possible. “So, you have no working experience? But I thought you had some…I
would prefer a teacher who’s taught in a class before…”. Nevertheless, while we were talking on the
phone he had not mentioned anything about working experience.

Thursday, 27th September 1984

This morning I saw an interesting ad in the newspaper, reading that “ladies with some knowledge of
English are wanted as teachers in an English tuition centre in