This picture was taken at Fruska Gora Park on Saturday. It is of Stevan and Debbie with the American dancers on the trip. Note that Vivian has her Harry Potter bag with her! The book is in it.
Monday, July 23, 2007
I can't believe it has been almost 2 weeks. Today was another fairly lazy day. I lay in bed after breakfast until I finished Harry Potter around 2:30 this afternoon. I am satisfied with the ending...it tied up loose ends nicely and I was content with the final resolution, if not happy with it. I laughed and I cried...both happy and sad tears.
After that I showered and dressed. Brenda was in the dining hall when I went to get some water. She was calling Debbie Grebel. Brenda has had a blister and rash on her toe and the director of the school told her that she thought that she needed to go to a doctor or the hospital. While we waited for Debbie to call us back, we sat and had our afternoon coffee break with the ladies. Instead of calling, Debbie came and told us that Stevan's nephew's wife had a friend who was a nurse practitioner and they would take us to Mickey's house to let her look at it.
What followed was a delightful couple of hours. We sat in her kitchen and talked and snacked and laughed. The friend told us to use something in a pressurized spray can called 'Enbechyn'...this is from the Cyrillic since I don't have that kind of keyboard on my phone! She said it had an antibiotic in it and Brenda said it had a freezing effect. She bought some and hopes it will heal things up by the time they leave on Sunday.
We were served some homemade lemonade which was very sweet...in contrast to the bottled lemonades here which are bitter. She said it was sweetened with flowers by boiling the water, using sugar and then, when the water is merely warm, adding the flowers and letting them steep for 24 hours, straining it and adding the lemon. Mickey looked up the plant on the internet because Brenda is really into plants. The plant is called Zava which translates to 'Elder'...didn't Aunt Bee in Mayberry make Elderberry wine? If this was any indication, that is a very sweet wine. It was excellent lemonade.Of course, the best part was being invited into a local home for refreshments and conversation...not to mention some local medical advice. It was truly a once in a lifetime experience and one to be savored and remembered.
Sandra walked us home and then took the girls to buy cake and ice cream to bring back to the dorm. They also bought nail polish and are currently doing the girly thing as a group. All I can say is that they better share some cake! :-)
One more thing...Stevan told us that the local TV station came to the studio today and taped some of the class and it will air tomorrow morning at 10. Sandra said they are going to tape it, but I don't know that I can get it into a format that is 'showable' at home. They use PAL format in Europe instead of NTSC. Mickey works in television though so maybe he has the resources to convert it...I hope so!That is really all I have to report. Museums were closed today so I didn't go anywhere on my own...maybe tomorrow. It was a little cooler...just under 100. That was nice...it was nice sitting in the air conditioned kitchen this afternoon too. Debbie said that they just got the A/C on Saturday!
K and E
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