This is the map of Croatia. You can see where Dubrovnik is and its neighbors. The whole south side of the Croatian coast is called Dalmatia.First I want to apologize for being MIA from the internetz lately. The power cable to my laptop had a small missing piece of plastic on it when I left the States, very minor, I covered it with electrical tape and forgot about it. I considered bringing my spare laptop cable but decided against it since I felt I had over packed as it was. In retrospect that was a stupid choice on my part considering that sometimes I had to position the cable a certain way in order for it to work. By last week the power cord was starting to seriously fall apart. I started to get nervous about using it so Thursday morning I had Austin mail me my spare power cord with 6 day shipping. Saturday my laptop cable split in two, useless. Nobody buy Asus laptops, they come with poor quality power cords! This is the second one I've had now, and they are not cheap. I am not a happy customer. I now have no way to charge my laptop and now I get less than an hour of battery time. I am not happy about it, I can only hope my spare gets here and soon. I can't post pictures until I get power cable. I'm at ACMT now, but it's a pain to go here all the time.
This weekend I went to the movies again in Dubrovnik and saw Charlie Wilson's War. Excellent movie. I liked when they were speaking Russian they subtitled it both in English and Croatian, I appreciate they had the English speakers in mind. Saturday I went to an event at Fresh called Air Fresh. Basically they sold "boarding passes" for 70 kuna ($15) and closed the bar to people who didn't have a boarding pass for an hour and a half. They they proceeded to pretend that the bar was an airplane. They seated us, gave us a mock "safety demonstration" (which was really really funny) and served us free drinks and airplane peanuts. Since there's a lot of foreigners that go to Fresh they did everything in English. They played video footage of an airplane flight during it and when there was "turbulence" (someone shaking the camera) they passed out tequila shots. After the flight they put up karaoke for whoever wanted to sing. It was really a ton of fun, I had a great time.
I've been forgetting I'm away from home lately. I don't know if that is a good thing or a bad thing. When I went to get pizza with Ian, Chris, and Kyle on Friday and we were on our way out I was thinking about where I parked my car, then I realized I was in Croatia and I didn't bring my car on the airplane with me. Last night I couldn't sleep and I was hearing a loud noise when I was laying awake in my bed, sounded like they were picking up the garbage from the dumpsters. I just kept visualizing them picking up the garbage at my apartment in Henrietta and I felt like I was back there at that point. It was really strange, I couldn't really feel like I was away from home. I guess I'm just getting more and more used to this place.
Today there was a lot of people speaking English running around. It was strange walking by like 7 groups of people and understanding what they are saying. Just not something I'm used to. Between Croatian Culture lecture and my Social Change class I picked up a slice of pizza in Old Town and went to the old port to look at the sea and eat. On the way I ran into this friendly guy who said "Dobar dan" (Good day) to me. I said "Dobar dan" back to him and my stupid American accent gave me away as a foreigner because right after that he switched over to English. "You don't speak Croatian?" "No." "Oh really, because you look Croatian." Ok...
The old port was very different today than it was when I first visited it back in March. First of all the sea was very calm today, almost no waves. There was a lot of people out there speaking a lot of different languages, tourists. The sun was shining and people were out boating and sailing. The tourists were taking pictures. It was just a different feel from the first time I was there in the rain. I'm not saying it was better or worse, just different.
I noticed while looking at the class list for my Social Change class that the only people in the class with middle names are the Americans. I guess Croatians don't typically have middle names.
The days leading up to this weekend were pretty insane. I stayed up until dawn 3 days working on school assignments, I clearly need to manage my time better. The problem is I feel like I'm on vacation so it's hard to get stuff done while I'm on vacation.
This weekend, Saturday I believe, is our trip to Montenegro! Yay. I'm excited. I'm sure it will be awesome.
Much love for my peeps at home. Miss you guys a lot, obviously. Adio!
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