Tuesday, February 20, 2007

The Cat and The Princess



Being a teacher has it's perks, like getting up at five in the morning to transform oneself into an actor from the cast of cats. Last Friday was " Dress up as your favourite storybook character" Day. Paul went as The Paper Bag Princess and I was the Puss in Boots. Guess all of that make-up knowledge came to some good.

Sunday, February 11, 2007

Dubrovnik Take Two

So there you have it- the new hair cut. None of the 4 year olds seemed to notice. Often they comment on change in a very honest way. I'm happy it didn't offend them.
We had to climb all of these stairs to get to the apartment we rented. At the end the Adriatic.
I wish we had a boat to float in.
The road into old town.
Who can resist cotton candy?
The flags or Croatia and Christianity as part of the parade in old town.


Last Friday 2:15 pm rolls around; Paul, James and Myself are promptly fitted into the szkoda as it screeches out of the school parking lot en route to the coast. Our minds not yet made up as to whether or not we should stick to the original plan and head north up the coast to a mellow town called Makarska for hiking and relaxing, or to take a left on the coast returning to Dubrovnik for the Dubrovnik Day Festival. After a stop at Zdrova Voda the famous lamb roast on the side of the highway restaurant for some roast sandwiches our ideas of health and exercise quickly get side swiped by promises of Marti Gras like festivities in Dubrovnik. As I lay in the back seat of the car, James taking over my very important role as navigator, all I can see is the big dipper coming in and out of my view as we wind down the coastal highway.

Dubrovnik as beautiful, sunny, and breathtaking as always proves to be in the thick of St. Blaze day the patron Saint of Dubrovnik. Needless to say the streets are full of families in their Sunday best and processions of Catholic Croatians in their national dress and outdoor masses. A very surreal and 'local" experience compared to the usual throng of tourists the town tends to see in the summer months. Perhaps not the wild atmosphere we were hoping for but still lovely and enchanting in a surreal hyper sensory kind of way.

Back in Bosnia Paul has now moved both the ironing board and the drying rack into 'my make-up room". Which means we now share the room since Paul is the only one around here that touches the laundry.
Back for another week of school. Happy Valentine's Day to all of you lovers out there. Also good health to our dear friend Denny who just got out of the hospital from a bout of pneumonia. Good to see him back in the hood.