Wow. It's 9:20pm. I am just nodding off at this point. I have been on a 9-to-9 sleep schedule. It's really really weird. I suppose it'll get better a few days out, but I have been unable to sleep past 9, and unable to stay awake past 9. This is unusual for me. So much so that I am not making sense. Well, I am making sense, but I am being redundant. Goody.
Anyway, watching the Grammys at the moment. I think pop music is finally back. Mainstream music sucked this past decade, imo. I mean, there were good bands and good albums obviously, but there were a lot of bad bands and bad albums too. I think the bad ones are finally weeded out. That nasty spell of pop-punk is mostly over, and the ultra-patriotic cowboy country is pretty much over and now the music industry has improved. Now we have good dance music with the new gay icon Lady Gaga. Granted there are a lot of bad popular songs still out (Miley Cyrus, for example) but no more Hillary Duff or Fall Out Boy.
Anyway, my uninformed, half-thought out music rant is over. I assume people disagree, but ah well. It's my blog. I can post all the half-formed illogical opinions I want! So there!
I just want you to know that I am really excited for Tuesday. Not only can I caucus quickly, but it's the premiere of season 6 of LOST! Also, I get my new boxes of contacts so I don't have to wear glasses all the time. Kick ass! Yea! Whoo! Tuesday will rock!
I think I'm going to bed. It's 9:40pm/4:40am so........ I'm tired. I will close with a short list of things I missed while in Europe:
Bitter MN cold
Sweatpants
Rice
Microwaves
Getting mail
Reading the newspaper
Meals that don't cost $30
friends and family
Things I will most about Europe:
Music channels that actually play music videos
Humanely-raised meat
Tasty and cheap fruit
Integrated diversity
Long relaxed meals
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Day 28 - Departure!
All right, so I'm back, but the trip over was eventful so I'll recap:
I got up at 6:30am. We left for the Venice airport at 8am, after a quick goodbye from Duska. I slept on the way there, and ate a muffin and a cappucino in the airport since we had an hour or so after security.
When we arrived in Munich, we got off the plane and onto a bus. Before we left, a flight attendant asked if anyone left behind a black fannypack. Althea ran off the bus to grab it for Alexi, one of the girls on the trip, who then said "oh my god!", ran off the plane, and came back with her passport, which she had left on the seat. Wow.... I'm glad she remembered it, but damn. You do not forget your passport anywhere. I kept mine on me at all times, in the main pocket of my neck pouch that went in between the layers of my clothes.
Anyway, we then went through the hell known as Munich airport security. Goddamn! It's worse than any US airport I've been in. We had to go through customs, then security, then past all the shops and restaurants, then another passport check, then a very invasive security (the sensor picked up a receipt in my pocket, which led to another once-over with the wand), then we arrived at the gate where there was 1 small cafe and no other shops or even a vending machine. Wtf... So then we had to sit there for half an hour bored and hungry before boarding.
Anyway, on the Munich-Chicago flight, we were joined by the Russian speed skating Olympic team on their way to Vancouver. Pretty cool, imo. They were wearing their red sweatsuits and everything. But they also held the plane for them, so we took off about 20 minutes late. Normally, it doesn't matter that much, but we only had an hour and a half in Chicago, and we had to go through customs and security and everything.
By the end of the flight to Chicago, I was so tired that I was on the verge of tears. I spent the flight watching movies again. I watched Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Wickie the Viking, Fame, Love Aaj Jai, and an episode of How I Met Your Mother. I cried through the end of Aaj Jai, and at the end of HIMYM. Wow. It's an ok show, but good lord, it's not cry worthy!
Anyway, back to the time crunch in Chicago. So, I am tired and my nerves are frayed, and I just want to go home. And then I go through customs, where we have to pick up our checked luggage. My bag was the last one on the conveyor. Damn. Only 25 minutes til we board. I go to the customs officer, who was nice and asked the questions quickly and nicely. Then I joined the line to recheck my luggage. SLOW!!!! Fortunately, a customs officer tells the line to just put our bags near this other conveyor and they will do their best to get it to our flights on time. So, I put my bag there and crossed my fingers. Then I took the tram to Terminal 1. 8 minutes til takeoff.
Then I look to see what gate my flight is at. Oh, it's delayed. Goody! It is leaving 25 minutes late. That makes everything better, especially since I got there 10 minutes after the plane originally should have left. I hate being late, but since 15 of us were going to be late, they held the flight a bit. It was already late coming in, too.
Anyway, I konked out during the flight to MSP. Very uncomfortable seats for sleeping, though. I figured one hour of sleep on the plane wouldn't leave me too jetlagged. In my attempt to keep from falling asleep during non-sleeping Central time hours, I stayed up 24 hours.
Anyway, I got home around 11:30pm and was sleeping by 12. A very busy 24 hours. Unfortunately, I could only sleep til 9am. I am used to that time being 4pm, now. Currently, it's not even 9pm, but I am so exhausted, I will go to bed early tonight, I think.
Also, I got my computer working again. Yay!!!
I got up at 6:30am. We left for the Venice airport at 8am, after a quick goodbye from Duska. I slept on the way there, and ate a muffin and a cappucino in the airport since we had an hour or so after security.
When we arrived in Munich, we got off the plane and onto a bus. Before we left, a flight attendant asked if anyone left behind a black fannypack. Althea ran off the bus to grab it for Alexi, one of the girls on the trip, who then said "oh my god!", ran off the plane, and came back with her passport, which she had left on the seat. Wow.... I'm glad she remembered it, but damn. You do not forget your passport anywhere. I kept mine on me at all times, in the main pocket of my neck pouch that went in between the layers of my clothes.
Anyway, we then went through the hell known as Munich airport security. Goddamn! It's worse than any US airport I've been in. We had to go through customs, then security, then past all the shops and restaurants, then another passport check, then a very invasive security (the sensor picked up a receipt in my pocket, which led to another once-over with the wand), then we arrived at the gate where there was 1 small cafe and no other shops or even a vending machine. Wtf... So then we had to sit there for half an hour bored and hungry before boarding.
Anyway, on the Munich-Chicago flight, we were joined by the Russian speed skating Olympic team on their way to Vancouver. Pretty cool, imo. They were wearing their red sweatsuits and everything. But they also held the plane for them, so we took off about 20 minutes late. Normally, it doesn't matter that much, but we only had an hour and a half in Chicago, and we had to go through customs and security and everything.
By the end of the flight to Chicago, I was so tired that I was on the verge of tears. I spent the flight watching movies again. I watched Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Wickie the Viking, Fame, Love Aaj Jai, and an episode of How I Met Your Mother. I cried through the end of Aaj Jai, and at the end of HIMYM. Wow. It's an ok show, but good lord, it's not cry worthy!
Anyway, back to the time crunch in Chicago. So, I am tired and my nerves are frayed, and I just want to go home. And then I go through customs, where we have to pick up our checked luggage. My bag was the last one on the conveyor. Damn. Only 25 minutes til we board. I go to the customs officer, who was nice and asked the questions quickly and nicely. Then I joined the line to recheck my luggage. SLOW!!!! Fortunately, a customs officer tells the line to just put our bags near this other conveyor and they will do their best to get it to our flights on time. So, I put my bag there and crossed my fingers. Then I took the tram to Terminal 1. 8 minutes til takeoff.
Then I look to see what gate my flight is at. Oh, it's delayed. Goody! It is leaving 25 minutes late. That makes everything better, especially since I got there 10 minutes after the plane originally should have left. I hate being late, but since 15 of us were going to be late, they held the flight a bit. It was already late coming in, too.
Anyway, I konked out during the flight to MSP. Very uncomfortable seats for sleeping, though. I figured one hour of sleep on the plane wouldn't leave me too jetlagged. In my attempt to keep from falling asleep during non-sleeping Central time hours, I stayed up 24 hours.
Anyway, I got home around 11:30pm and was sleeping by 12. A very busy 24 hours. Unfortunately, I could only sleep til 9am. I am used to that time being 4pm, now. Currently, it's not even 9pm, but I am so exhausted, I will go to bed early tonight, I think.
Also, I got my computer working again. Yay!!!
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Day 27 - Last night in Piran -- forevah!
Today was our last day. Sad....! We took our last walk to the institute, where I gave my last presentation, and ate my last burek. And my second last burek (I was hungry!). Then I went for a last walk around the city.
On the walk, I went to the only beach in Piran, which is just a disentegrated concrete area next to a heavily graffitied basketball court along the seafront. Then I walked to the square, up to the church, then over to the market with a wider variety of alcohol, where I bought a couple beers for tonight. Along the walk, I picked up 1 rock for memories, and saw about 12 cats. It was warm and sunny, so lots of people and animals were walking around.
Anyway, we watched the Africa cup semi-finals between Ghana and Nigeria (where I drank my beer). I normally don't watch football too often, but it's something to do here. We've been following the tournament since it's been on TV a lot since we've been here. Also, the Snooker world tournament has been on. What's Snooker, you ask? To be honest, I don't really know. It's like pool, only with several red balls, and a few of different colors tht are in particular places on the billiards table. You must hit a red ball in then hit another color in. You keep going until you don't get a ball in, then it's the other players turn. Paddy played it frequently in college, which was very helpful in explaining wtf was going on. Also, you must wear a vest and bowtie while playing. This is a gentleman's game, apparently.
We had a group dinner at 7pm at Ivo, the restaurant closest to our hostel. It was ok. I ordered more tomato soup because I was still hungry. Then we got chocolate crepe for dessert. Fantastic! I love chocolate crepe. I wish they made crepe in the US! Nomnomnom. Lord knows I can't make it!
After, a few of us went to Da Noi, the sketchy bar for a drink. It was still sketchy, but fun. Anyways, I must go finish packing. We leave the hostel at 7:45 tomorrow morning and leave from Venice. Poor Huguette isn't allowed to go to Italy, so she has to leave at 6:45 to catch a flight from Ljubljana. I guess that's what she gets from being Congalese. lol. Silly governments and visas.
On the walk, I went to the only beach in Piran, which is just a disentegrated concrete area next to a heavily graffitied basketball court along the seafront. Then I walked to the square, up to the church, then over to the market with a wider variety of alcohol, where I bought a couple beers for tonight. Along the walk, I picked up 1 rock for memories, and saw about 12 cats. It was warm and sunny, so lots of people and animals were walking around.
Anyway, we watched the Africa cup semi-finals between Ghana and Nigeria (where I drank my beer). I normally don't watch football too often, but it's something to do here. We've been following the tournament since it's been on TV a lot since we've been here. Also, the Snooker world tournament has been on. What's Snooker, you ask? To be honest, I don't really know. It's like pool, only with several red balls, and a few of different colors tht are in particular places on the billiards table. You must hit a red ball in then hit another color in. You keep going until you don't get a ball in, then it's the other players turn. Paddy played it frequently in college, which was very helpful in explaining wtf was going on. Also, you must wear a vest and bowtie while playing. This is a gentleman's game, apparently.
We had a group dinner at 7pm at Ivo, the restaurant closest to our hostel. It was ok. I ordered more tomato soup because I was still hungry. Then we got chocolate crepe for dessert. Fantastic! I love chocolate crepe. I wish they made crepe in the US! Nomnomnom. Lord knows I can't make it!
After, a few of us went to Da Noi, the sketchy bar for a drink. It was still sketchy, but fun. Anyways, I must go finish packing. We leave the hostel at 7:45 tomorrow morning and leave from Venice. Poor Huguette isn't allowed to go to Italy, so she has to leave at 6:45 to catch a flight from Ljubljana. I guess that's what she gets from being Congalese. lol. Silly governments and visas.
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Day 26 - Boring!
Hehe. It was a little boring, I guess. I sat through 17 presentations, chit chatted, was cold, and worked on my own presentation. After I finish up a few details, I may head upstairs to hang out with Allysa and Huguette, who presented today. For now, my powerpoint is done, and I just need to make a personal outline with all the stuff I want to say. It's times like now that I would like to have my own computer so I can just copy and paste my notes and read them off the screen. Alas, I must write everything by hand.
In any case, the people who want to go home are really annoyed. We could all tolerate each other early in the month, but now that we leave the day after tomorrow, there is a lot of eye rolling and irritated gossip. Kinda weird, eh? I guess it makes me glad I'm leaving before I get annoyed with the place (although having all the restaurants close at once is pretty annoying).
Yup, short blog post. I didn't do too much today, I guess. For lunch, I had a meat and potato burek. For dinner I bought half a loaf of bread, a small wheel of brie, and 2 yogurts with Market brand Fanta. I have €70 left. I suppose I could exchange them, since all I have to buy tomorrow is lunch, which will probably be a burek. Dinner is with the group.
Also, if you're ever in Bosnia, spend all your Marks or exchange them there. No banks take Bosnian Marks. FYI.
In any case, the people who want to go home are really annoyed. We could all tolerate each other early in the month, but now that we leave the day after tomorrow, there is a lot of eye rolling and irritated gossip. Kinda weird, eh? I guess it makes me glad I'm leaving before I get annoyed with the place (although having all the restaurants close at once is pretty annoying).
Yup, short blog post. I didn't do too much today, I guess. For lunch, I had a meat and potato burek. For dinner I bought half a loaf of bread, a small wheel of brie, and 2 yogurts with Market brand Fanta. I have €70 left. I suppose I could exchange them, since all I have to buy tomorrow is lunch, which will probably be a burek. Dinner is with the group.
Also, if you're ever in Bosnia, spend all your Marks or exchange them there. No banks take Bosnian Marks. FYI.
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Day 25 - Burea begins!
Today, we gave group presentations. My group presented in the afternoon, so we worked through lunch. We just grabbed burek from the bakery and finalized our presenation. Part of our finalization was working with Meichen's accent so people could understand her more easily. She has difficulty separating her words and ennunciating her consonants. Her part was much more understandable than in previous presentations. We did well, though. Yay!
After, everyone came back to the hostel to work on individual presentations. I don't present til Thursday morning, so I don't have to get much done tonight. 17/25 of the class present tomorrow, so I'll be fine.
For dinner, everywhere is closed! The weather is too cold, so restaurants close to minimize losses because no one goes out to eat. All the restaurants we were going to go to were closed, so we wandered around until we found an open place. We found this tiny little cute restaurant on a side street as we were heading to the harbor to see if those restaurants were open. Inside, we met a cute tiny little older lady who spoke Slovene, Italian and some German. In our group, we speak English, French and Chinese. So, we managed to order 2 fish dinners and 1 meat dinner, 3 teas and 3 risotto with meat. The risotto was amazing! Just white rice with beef chunks and gravy. I ordered the meat meal, so I got 2 pork chops, fried potato slices, steamed peas and carrots, with a salty gravy. Delicious! The fish were just two fish with some potatoes and spinach. Also looked delicious. Then she brought out the aperitifs. She pointed to one and said ˝sherry˝ then the whiter one and said ˝grapa˝. I poured out some sherry for the three of us. It wasn't bad. Drinkable. I poured out half a shot of grapa. I took a sip. Holy hell. It was worse than vodka. I then sat there for 5 minutes dreading finishing the half a shot. Then I got the idea to squeeze a lemon into the glass. So much better! Drinkable, anyway.
The bill was €91! The fish cost €45. It was a relief to me because my meal was only €19, not €36. Awesome!
Anyway, I suppose I could go do research now. Le sigh...
After, everyone came back to the hostel to work on individual presentations. I don't present til Thursday morning, so I don't have to get much done tonight. 17/25 of the class present tomorrow, so I'll be fine.
For dinner, everywhere is closed! The weather is too cold, so restaurants close to minimize losses because no one goes out to eat. All the restaurants we were going to go to were closed, so we wandered around until we found an open place. We found this tiny little cute restaurant on a side street as we were heading to the harbor to see if those restaurants were open. Inside, we met a cute tiny little older lady who spoke Slovene, Italian and some German. In our group, we speak English, French and Chinese. So, we managed to order 2 fish dinners and 1 meat dinner, 3 teas and 3 risotto with meat. The risotto was amazing! Just white rice with beef chunks and gravy. I ordered the meat meal, so I got 2 pork chops, fried potato slices, steamed peas and carrots, with a salty gravy. Delicious! The fish were just two fish with some potatoes and spinach. Also looked delicious. Then she brought out the aperitifs. She pointed to one and said ˝sherry˝ then the whiter one and said ˝grapa˝. I poured out some sherry for the three of us. It wasn't bad. Drinkable. I poured out half a shot of grapa. I took a sip. Holy hell. It was worse than vodka. I then sat there for 5 minutes dreading finishing the half a shot. Then I got the idea to squeeze a lemon into the glass. So much better! Drinkable, anyway.
The bill was €91! The fish cost €45. It was a relief to me because my meal was only €19, not €36. Awesome!
Anyway, I suppose I could go do research now. Le sigh...
Monday, January 25, 2010
Day 24 - A day of relaxation!
Today, I got up at 9:15. It was really nice. We got the morning off because quite a few people were going to stay up til 5am watching the Vikings game. They lost. In the playoffs. The sun set yesterday. Hell remains firey. Anyway, so we had class for about 20 minutes this afternoon, and had the rest of the day to work on our presentations.
Tomorrow, each group gives 2 presentations. One in the morning on the relations between Bosniaks and Bosnian Serbs, and one in the afternoon about the relations between Bosniaks and Bosnian Croats. To simplify things, our group split in two to do one presentation with 3 people each.
And Wednesday and Thursday, we give individual presentations about a topic of our choice. I am doing a presenation on the amount Saudi Arabia has invested into mosques in Sarajevo. There are a lot of mosques in Sarajevo, the newer ones very large and very empty. BiH is a mostly secular state, and even though practicing religion was a fad after the fall of Yugoslavia and during and just after the war, most people are not very religious and only really celebrate major holidays. So, there are large, fancy mosques with speakers in the minarets to loudly call people to prayer. In a secular state with recent, violent ethnoreligious tension, giant fancy loud mosques are not exactly welcome by the other ethnic groups, or even some Muslims.
In any case, we had a relaxed day with minimal effort. We also got our last per diem today, so I have money. Oh! And I went shopping to buy a large purse. I have bought too much stuff to bring home easily, so I'm checking my suitcase, putting liquids and whatever dirty clothes fit in there, then putting breakables and stuff to do on the plane in the new purse, and everything else in my backpack to put in the overhead compartments. Hopefully everything gets home in one piece, eh? It's strange to think that we're leaving soon, but most people are glad to be almost done. I miss some parts of home, but I find it really exciting to be in places I've never been before. I have a lot of reasons to come back to all the places I've visited, though. Particularly the large cities where we only had an evening and early morning there.
Tomorrow, each group gives 2 presentations. One in the morning on the relations between Bosniaks and Bosnian Serbs, and one in the afternoon about the relations between Bosniaks and Bosnian Croats. To simplify things, our group split in two to do one presentation with 3 people each.
And Wednesday and Thursday, we give individual presentations about a topic of our choice. I am doing a presenation on the amount Saudi Arabia has invested into mosques in Sarajevo. There are a lot of mosques in Sarajevo, the newer ones very large and very empty. BiH is a mostly secular state, and even though practicing religion was a fad after the fall of Yugoslavia and during and just after the war, most people are not very religious and only really celebrate major holidays. So, there are large, fancy mosques with speakers in the minarets to loudly call people to prayer. In a secular state with recent, violent ethnoreligious tension, giant fancy loud mosques are not exactly welcome by the other ethnic groups, or even some Muslims.
In any case, we had a relaxed day with minimal effort. We also got our last per diem today, so I have money. Oh! And I went shopping to buy a large purse. I have bought too much stuff to bring home easily, so I'm checking my suitcase, putting liquids and whatever dirty clothes fit in there, then putting breakables and stuff to do on the plane in the new purse, and everything else in my backpack to put in the overhead compartments. Hopefully everything gets home in one piece, eh? It's strange to think that we're leaving soon, but most people are glad to be almost done. I miss some parts of home, but I find it really exciting to be in places I've never been before. I have a lot of reasons to come back to all the places I've visited, though. Particularly the large cities where we only had an evening and early morning there.
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Day 22 and 23 - Mostar and Split
Sorry I was unable to update last night. I was sharing a room with someone who left before I had a chance to ask if I could use her computer. I'll try to remember the best I can.
We took a city tour at 9am. We walked around the Austro-Hungarian empire area, but a lot of it had been destroyed in the conflict, and some of it rebuilt. It's a little weird. Trees grow in really weird places here. In Trieste, there were trees growing on a bridge. There are trees growing on the tops of walls, on upper stories of buildings, on tops of boulders. It's really strange.
Anyway, we then walked to the old bridge, Stari Most. It was built in the 1500s, survived German bombing in WWII, was destroyed in the 92-94 conflict, was rebuilt in 2006 and is now a UNESCO heritage site. It's smaller than expected. The river is narrow through the city, though it gets wider outside of the city. It rushes super fast and loudly, and the color of the whole river is a bright blue green. It's not very clear, so I wouldn't swim in it, but it sure is pretty to look at!
After, we walked down the souvenir street. I finally had a chance to buy some souvenirs from Bosnia. It is a really pretty town.
We then headed out to Split, the 2nd largest Croatian city. It was just over 3 hours. The scenery is so drastic here. One second will be a snowy forest, and just 20 minutes later it'll be rocky and dry.
Split is the tourist city. There were a lot of cruise ships in the harbor, and everyone spoke English. We are done learning, so we didn't have any classes here. We just had free time! Yay! We went to dinner in another sketchy-entrance, lovely-dinner place. We had to walk through a narrow alleyway where two walls meet to find this little courtyard and a cute restaurant inside. It was delicious and relatively cheap. The receptionist recommended it, otherwise we never would have found it.
After, Meichen went back to the hotel, and LaVana and I walked around shopping. It was our last night in Croatia, so I wanted to spend all of my kuna. I bought some unmentionables, but it was Saturday night, so most shops closed early. So, we got up early to walk around, and found an old palace, where Mass was being held, but no souvenir shops. I still had 80 kuna (15 dollars), so I bought some food for the long bus trip back to Piran.
Then at a road stop, I bought some more souvenirs, this time the alcoholic kind. I bought some fancy bottles of slivovic (plum brandy) to bring back. After, we just spent a lot of time on either freeways, or windy mountain roads or windy coastal roads. Very few of us felt well at the end of the trip. We went from a few hundred feet, to a mile and a half, to sea level all in a day. Also, we went through a 7km long tunnel. It was pretty cool. No one held their breath. Paddy advised us not to do so, as he did not want any dead bodies on the bus.
Anyway, back in Piran for a few more days to give presentations and wrap up the class, and then back to the US! I'm not sure I want to, but I can't afford to stay. Damn. If only I had a few hundred dollars to spend another week somewhere!
We took a city tour at 9am. We walked around the Austro-Hungarian empire area, but a lot of it had been destroyed in the conflict, and some of it rebuilt. It's a little weird. Trees grow in really weird places here. In Trieste, there were trees growing on a bridge. There are trees growing on the tops of walls, on upper stories of buildings, on tops of boulders. It's really strange.
Anyway, we then walked to the old bridge, Stari Most. It was built in the 1500s, survived German bombing in WWII, was destroyed in the 92-94 conflict, was rebuilt in 2006 and is now a UNESCO heritage site. It's smaller than expected. The river is narrow through the city, though it gets wider outside of the city. It rushes super fast and loudly, and the color of the whole river is a bright blue green. It's not very clear, so I wouldn't swim in it, but it sure is pretty to look at!
After, we walked down the souvenir street. I finally had a chance to buy some souvenirs from Bosnia. It is a really pretty town.
We then headed out to Split, the 2nd largest Croatian city. It was just over 3 hours. The scenery is so drastic here. One second will be a snowy forest, and just 20 minutes later it'll be rocky and dry.
Split is the tourist city. There were a lot of cruise ships in the harbor, and everyone spoke English. We are done learning, so we didn't have any classes here. We just had free time! Yay! We went to dinner in another sketchy-entrance, lovely-dinner place. We had to walk through a narrow alleyway where two walls meet to find this little courtyard and a cute restaurant inside. It was delicious and relatively cheap. The receptionist recommended it, otherwise we never would have found it.
After, Meichen went back to the hotel, and LaVana and I walked around shopping. It was our last night in Croatia, so I wanted to spend all of my kuna. I bought some unmentionables, but it was Saturday night, so most shops closed early. So, we got up early to walk around, and found an old palace, where Mass was being held, but no souvenir shops. I still had 80 kuna (15 dollars), so I bought some food for the long bus trip back to Piran.
Then at a road stop, I bought some more souvenirs, this time the alcoholic kind. I bought some fancy bottles of slivovic (plum brandy) to bring back. After, we just spent a lot of time on either freeways, or windy mountain roads or windy coastal roads. Very few of us felt well at the end of the trip. We went from a few hundred feet, to a mile and a half, to sea level all in a day. Also, we went through a 7km long tunnel. It was pretty cool. No one held their breath. Paddy advised us not to do so, as he did not want any dead bodies on the bus.
Anyway, back in Piran for a few more days to give presentations and wrap up the class, and then back to the US! I'm not sure I want to, but I can't afford to stay. Damn. If only I had a few hundred dollars to spend another week somewhere!
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