The following entry was written by Jerome Parker, who lives in Korca, in eastern Albania. I think he captures the experience of many of us in speaking the language. I have edited some for clarity (I hope) and added translation in parenthesis. Thanks Jerome.
If you notice the comment option is not available, it is because the spammers have started posting 10 to 15 messages a day to the site. Until I figure out how to stop them, I have tried to turned off the comments. I don’t know if any of this will work, but I must try… Continue reading Spam
It was meant to be a 2 ½ hour express train ride…
It is a long train ride from Bologna to Cinque Terre, 4 ½ hours. Now that doesn’t sound like very long, but when you don’t know which stop is yours, you must pay attention to every stop and it does become tiring. But finally you arrive and it is worth the wait.
February was a month of many computer problems and lots of time spent replacing the hard drive on Criss’s computer, only to have the memory go bad. And of course, Internet service and electricity are always a scarce resources. So while the hard drive is fine, everything runs slow with only half the memory, but… Continue reading Computer Problems
We spend a lot of time going to the market, corner vegetable store or bread store. With small refrigerators and lack of preservatives, it is difficult to keep things for longer than a week. That has a plus and a minus,
This year Christmas fell on Sunday and in Albania, it felt like any other Sunday. A few more shops closed than normal, but people were out in doing their normal activities. When you remember this is a country that is 90% Muslim,
This is a compilation of just a few of the many things we have not yet fully comprehended.
In our apartment, we have 2 area rugs that have needed cleaning since we moved in. We think the landlord said she would clean them, but nothing ever came of it
Our rainy season has turned into a drought and with a large percent of the electricity being produced by hydroelectric plants