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Peristeri means a dove in Greek.It’s also the name of the area I was staying while I was visitingmy grandmother’s family in Athens,Greece.Surrounded by a myriad of unfamiliar faces,jet-lagged and exhausted,I tried to make sense of all the buzzing conversations going on around me.Sitting on the veranda of my grandmother’s sister’s home in Peristeri,I studied the faces of myrelatives;I barely knew any of them at the time,and the newness of my surroundings captivatedme,regardless of my knee-trembling sleepiness.
Peristeri means a dove in Greek. It’s the name of the area I was sleeping while I was visiting my grandmother’s family in Athens, Greece. Surrounded by a myriad of unfamiliar faces, jet-lagged and exhausted, I tried to make sense of all the buzzing conversations going on around me.Sitting on the veranda of my grandmother’s sister’s home in Peristeri, I studied the faces of myrelatives; I barely knew any of them at the time, and the newness of my surroundings captivatedme, regardless of my knee-trembling sleepiness.