Friday, September 07, 2007
1147am (448am in FSM)
I think I came home at 10pm last night. Kafkas friend, Johnny had a drinking party, and cooked out, and I was invited. There are Liepa, the radiologist, Johnny, a elementary school teacher, and three more guys. We cooked and had a drink together. Yes, Kafka came later after playing football somewhere.

We talked about politics, culture, sex, women, and so many more things. Liepa, 48 though looked older, does not like or I should say he hates capitalism. They are complaining with Lakia, Bosnian tequila, saying Life is difficult. Let me remind you it was three o’clock and they were complaining. Johnny, who is a teacher, has a second or weekend house in the very end of the town (village). There are no more house beyond his. He is a local Shakespeare scholar, and knows a lot of things about Japan. He knows about Miyamoto Musashi, which surprised me a lot. Bosnia, a country famous for a war in 90s, is obviously going through a lot of changes or transformation. I can easily imagine these changes are not easy for people who were used to the way it used to. Even for the government officials, this can not be easy.

Liepa and I had a small game, naming 50 states in the US. We started alphabetically, Alaska, Alabama, Arkansas…and he said Idaho….well which is in alphabetically ordered in Bosnian…and we went doing this randomly…

Liepa and Johnny are Muslims who drink a lot. Liepa was enjoying wine from a box, and Johnny was having great time with Stella Astolrs. The meat, Liga was cooking, took 5 hours to complete was really good. A tender deer meat with a lot of spices and herbs. It started raining around 7pm, but we all had a great time for difficult life.

Friday, September 07, 2007

It is cold today and gloomy. The gray sky seems to be ready for a heavy afternoon rain. I woke up late today…at 11am, had breakfast with Bosnian apple pie and coffee. Antonela, Hana and I left for Kakanj at 2pm and enjoyed a free pizza.

It is almost 530pm. Maca came with Lujia and Kajia. Both of them are playing with papers at the stairs. Maca is eating paprika. Hana is sleepy and Antonela is trying to put her asleep, walking around the living room. Very peaceful and quiet.