A new life starts

8/3-11

Good morning world!

A bit cold in the bedroom, Carl even moved over to the living room, which has a radiator. So a mission for the day will be to get a radiator for the bedroom. We will just ask the owners downstairs about it later. But first we are headed for the police and then the bank. Some stuff for visa and setting up bank accounts so we can get our monthly pay!

Nothing to special about those visits, a guy named Demitri picked us up at our apartment. He didn’t speak any English but seemed like a nice and funny guy. At our first visit in the office we meet this French girl, Lena, who was working for one other organization in the same office. Sadly she told me she was leaving for volunteer work in Skopje the next day, but said we could come by some other volunteer’s place later.

Some time later…

After going around in circles we finally managed to find the location of Sesam, where Lena was waiting for us – it turned out that if we had taken the straight way it would had taken us less than 5 minutes instead of 15, but we got were we wanted so no harm done. So we went over to the other volunteer’s apartment, where currently three people are living. It was two guys and one girl, Rafael from Estonia, Jordan from France and a Hatice from Turkey, so a pretty mixed party. Beside the people living in the place me, Carl, Lena and also a couch surfer was in the apartment. I can’t remember the name of the couch surfer, but this cute and really friendly girl from Estonia – anyway I found it really cool since it was my first encounter with a surfer. I have heard about the concept and been meaning to try it out at some point, just never gotten around to actually do it. So we where drinking wine and some local pretty soft liquor, might have been called rake. Goes both cold and warm, think the warmer with a little sugar was the better. It was really nice to get to know some other volunteer’s from other countries, since I haven’t learned any Macedonian so far. Well besides maybe Zdravo (Hello), Dobra/Da (Good & Yes) and Ne (take a wild guess). After a pretty late night we decide to head home, but made plans with the couch surfer to go and see the town the day after. She had also only been in Bitola for one day and was leaving the next day for Ohrid, which from what I've heard is this huge awesome lake with crystal clear water, so a joint tour on town sounded like a brilliant idea!

Just the view from our new friends balcony.

Good night great world.