Archive for April, 2008
Friday, April 25th, 2008
Blowout!
Here’s a story for mom: The two kinds of public transportation in Albania are the bus and the furgon. A “furgon” is a mini-bus, in which there are seats for 10, but often, somehow, room for five more. Driver skills and furgon road-worthiness are both occasionally suspect. I was coming home today from Tirana, doing [...]
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Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
Earth Day
We picked up garbage in the schoolyards of Fushë Krujë today. (Fushë Krujë is where Bush visited in June 2007. It’s been nicknamed “Fushë Bush”). PCVs Lisa, Bill and I are working with some local Albanian organizations as part of a larger ecotourism project at a nearby archaeological site. We recruited kids from the town [...]
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Sunday, April 6th, 2008
The “Mirë” Song
The most useful word in the Albanian language is the word “Mirë.” It translates to “good,” and in many ways, it’s used in the same way that we use the word. “Good morning”, “I’m good,” that kind of stuff. But it’s so much more functional here. You can have a whole conversation using just the [...]
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
Southern Adventure
We had a great trip to southern Albania this week. I was in Gjirokaster to give a training session, then we decided to take the long way home through Sarande up along the Coast Road. We couldn’t have asked for a more beautiful spring day to make this trip. I was only gone for 36 [...]
