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Just a heads up, I'm planning on making the move over to wordpress pretty soon. This post will hopefully keep me to it.
We're looking at the third day since the return from Bosnia and big surprise, I'm not sure exactly how I'm doing. I don't know how to just relax without feeling completely bored, but I have no energy to do anything of significance. What energy I do have is spent keeping Bosnia from becoming a figment of my imagination. The pictures help, but the bleak heat of Bakersfield provides a convincing counter-spell. Apparently my skipping of a few of the debriefing sessions in Austria are taking their toll.
-I've decided that I need to be a better reader = more reading, better books.
-Today I told Tina I need a hobby, but (1) it can't be expensive, (2) it can't require other people to enjoy it (i.e. Basketball, Paintball, Chess), and (3) it has to be something that can be enjoyed in small blocks of time.
So far I've got reading.
Here's a shot from the camp in Bosnia.
I miss people.
I figured that last post, although very representative of what I was feeling, was pretty selfish. So, in order to give a little more of information about how the trip is going I thought I would upload some pictures. Considering formatting and organizing photos isn't exactly Blogger.com's forte, I'll keep the text brief to keep my frustration level in check. There are two pictures of groups of people, one is our Intermediate English class that I am "teaching" and the other is a bunch of tired Americans about half way through a tour of downtown Sarajevo. The black and white landscape is looking east from the top of the fortress (see previous post). The twisty building is a TV companies latest construction, I think, and is not very popular among the Bosnians, "It doesn't fit." However, I would like to point out the similarities to my senior project design, maybe I was on to something, or just copying somebody somewhere... Fun side note: Although the road next to the university is a good place to take pictures of the twisty building, security guards at the construction site located between the road and the twisty building get rather irritated by photographers. Something to do with the construction site being the new American Embassy...
Super.
Two hours ago I was standing on top of a partially reconstructed fortress overlooking Sarajevo. On the way back home I drank a Pepsi. Today is a good day.
Because there is no chance that I will be able to post anything that in anyway satisfies my desire to communicate what things have been like in Bosnia, I'll leave that until I get back and go through the painful experience of distilling six weeks into a letter that's both informative and readable.
Also, I kind of like not being connected to the rest of the world. This is the first time in over two weeks I have used a computer. And just in case you were wondering the world still exists out here and it's quite wonderful.
For all who have emailed me, sorry, but I won't be responding until I get back. And who knows, maybe I'll even wait a few weeks just to rebel a little.
Oh, I'm almost finished with Searching For God Knows What by Donald Miller. Thanks James, I do like it better than Blue Like Jazz. Also, praise Jesus, Sarajevo gets Discovery and Bear Grylls is super with Bosnian subtitles. Also, Scrubs in German is not as funny, or wait, even more funny!?!
