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Day 6We went into Old Town Rab on this day. It was this old fortified town filled with churches dating back to the 1300s and little old mamas walking around and greeting little old men in overalls and other stuff idyllic stuff. It's kinda where I'd like heaven to be ( Read more... )

Day 5

On the fifth day, we set sail for Goli Otok (Naked Island) which is the prison/gulag island from Communist Yugoslavia. My hosts spent a fair amount of time waxing nostalgic about Communist times and voicing their concerns about the ways the country will change with capitalism and globalization. While many of their claims were valid, it is ( Read more... )

Lots of stuff. First of all, why do so many of my male friends who clearly have serious girlfriends feel the need to be so flirtatious with me? Hrmph. It's not even fun anymore it's just baffling.

So now here are some pictures with full color commentary on the scrollover, aight?


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I saw Shortbus and surprisingly liked it. It's all about love.....yeah man.

Here are pictures from like the past 7 days. No commentary but feel free to ask any questions.


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Phew! All of a sudden the weather got good and there were 101 things to do.
I had to play hooky from work today to catch up on sleep and other responsibilities.

Here are pictures from the past few days of drunkenness. Scroll over for words.

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So swimming lesson #2 was rougher than last week. The instructor worked with us on gliding and kicking. Then we moved on to floating on our backs. I did not do so swell. I would glide a bit then thrash and kick and get water up my nose and coming back upright. We went on like this for quite some time and the hour flew by and I hadn't tackled it. I ( Read more... )

Good things happened yesterday...

Good Thing #1I had my very first swimming class! Now I'm sure some of you are sitting there with shocked looks on your faces. If this is you, I would wager to say you probably didn't grow up around many black people, because if you did you would know that a lot of black people don't swim, especially black girls ( Read more... )

My glasses are gone! This is not a complaint. Just an exclamation of a disappointing fact.

Besides the misplacement (or theft) of my spectacles, I am good.
UPDATE: Glasses Found!

I've had a lot of fun in the last few days. Here are pictures (edited with Picassa!). Slide over for captions.

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