About a month ago

It was a bus strike, early morning.


Everybody had to take the paid bus services of the regional bus.


I was sitting just behind the driver, the seat next to mine empty.


On a bus stop an aged lady with a white cloth in her head came in. She looked very worried as her bag been stolen the day before. She said she could not pay the ticket for this reason and the lady ticket vendor reluctantly let her in and asked her to sit next to me.


She was talking to me still very worried that she needed to go asap to the U.S. Embassy so that they help her to go back to US and that she is a diplomat.


We started an interesting conversation swapping from Hellenic to English.


She let me know that on China apparently something had gone wrong with a virus and while an antidote had been made things got much worse. She gave me an uncomfortable account to how the infected population had been gathered together and what had happened to them.


She had warned be how Greek land is on plan to be bought by Chinese in the future.


We talked about how many languages she knew including ancient Hellenic and how learned so many languages as part of her job on a special 3 months per language school.


She was thankful to me as I proposed to escort her after the Syntagma (parliament stop, walking to near the U.S. Embassy.


She was very embarrassed as her bag containing all her ID, cards, money, contained an important document she was carrying form Israel to the U.S. Ambassador.


She mentioned how sussesful she were at all her jobs including persuading the Hellenic government to allow a U.S. Air Force base at the island of Crete. She also mentioned how she went to free the U.S. hostages in Irak... she suggested me to read the book on In the Stategy of Alexander the Great strategy, the first edition, in English.


After so many years, it was the first time her work had been compromised.


She believes in God and was very happy that someone was found to give her a bit of help in a foreign country in an uncomfortable, anxious moment of her life.