Still here

Hey there! I’m finally posting a few pictures… although nothing too attractive. Just my room, etc. I made my trip to the foreigner police to get my visa. It’s a frustrating experience in any country. I spent much of the day navigating a building with no signs and wondering whether I was supposed to take a number (I wasn’t) or shove my way up to a counter and shove my documents in front of someone (That’s what worked). I’m pretty sure it only worked because I had a letter from a government ministry. It’s the first foreigner police office I’ve every been to where most of the workers were women. In Austria and Switzerland they were always fat, surly bureaucrats. Mine were women who scowled until you started speaking Croatian to them.

Yesterday I took an impromptu road trip down to a small town closer to the border with Bosnia. One of the girls in my class is from Sweden but has a lot of family here. It’s one of the areas damaged by the war. Her grandfather was shot before they burned the house down. It’s clear that they area still hasn’t recovered economically, as many of the houses haven’t been repaired.