Tuesday, 27 May 2008
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It's my last day in Novi Sad!! Ahhhh!!! My goodbye schedule is pretty ridiculous, but I found myself with an extra minute, so I thought I'd blog while I have the chance. This could very well be the last time I manage to update though (obviously I won't be continuing this in America). In a little while I have my last trip to the dentist, an excursion to Fruska Gora with my professors, and then a night with the best friends (including the last Dane haircut), and tomorrow I'll be packing like crazy and then leaving for Belgrade (hopefully in the morning) to stay with Ljilja and Desko for my last night in Serbia before flying back early Thursday morning (damn early). So, between all that, I somehow doubt I'll make it back to xanga... it's been real though.
The last couple days have been intense, but mostly fun. Sunday I said goodbye to the new friends, which actually turned out to be kind of anti-climactic, but whatever. Honestly, I'm kind of glad I'm leaving, because our times together were just getting too complicated. We spent our last day together at Strand, which is the fake beach on the (nasty) Danube here in Novi Sad. They love it there, but I guess it's just hard for me to appreciate when I'm used to the Outer Banks. I guess the main reason they like going is to see all the guys in speedos, of which there are plenty, so maybe I shouldn't be so critical. Either way, bye new friends!
On my way home from hanging out with them, I got a call from the party friends seeing if I wanted to go out - perfect. They couldn't come to my farewell party because of a wedding, which is a perfectly good excuse, so we made up for it with a night at Giardino. It was a good time, as always, which ended with crepes, so really you can't go wrong there. I gave them my e-mail address and everything but didn't get theirs, so hopefully they'll write. Zoran says he wants to move to America too (and seems actually serious about it), so who knows. Until then, bye party friends!
After the night out with them, I woke up at the ungodly hour of 6 am to go with Igor to Subotica so I could see it in the daytime. It was a tiring day, but I still had fun. Subotica really is a world away from the rest of Serbia as far as infrastructure/modernity, so I'm glad I got to see that. Plus, I got to meet Igor's parents, who are hilarious (and very reminiscent of Balkan stereotypes). I kind of feel bad for him, because they brought up his ex-wife non-stop... awkward times (they don't know about his live-in boyfriend of 3 years). After running around Subotica we barely made it to the train on time, and then sufferred in one of my worst Balkan travel experiences ever. Full train + 90 degrees + random stops in the middle of fields = no fun. There was one spectacular moment though when Igor woke up from a short nap, looked around, and said, "Where are we now?", to which the woman next to him replied "In Serbia. Still." Good times. Once we got back in town, we met up with Dane and went over to their straight friends' place (Sale & Lidija) for a goodbye dinner. The food was great, the company was great, and there was one particularly great moment when my friend Jelena turned to Igor out of the blue and said "How big is yours?" She meant flash drive... or did she? Overall, it was a fun night (even though I really crashed towards the end). Bye straight friends!
This morning I went to Azbukum to have a farewell coffee with Natasa (my school's director), which was nice. I wish I had gotten to know her better, but she was always super busy, and I usually didn't have an excuse to bother her (not that she would've minded at all if I had just wanted to hang out randomly, but still). If any of you are ever considering studying Serbian, come to Azbukum!! It was great. Bye Abukum!
Afterwards I finally managed to meet up with my landlord, and fortunately he was prepared with the 360 euro he owed me without any prompting. Now I'm rich! And by rich, I mean I can pay my credit card bill. Maybe. It's enough to make me wish I was a Serbian lawyer who seems to own half the apartments in Novi Sad. Bye landlord!
So, as previously, mentioned, I've got some more people to say goodbye to... and sometime I have to clean this apartment and pack and everything. Hmm. Not sure when that's going to happen. Eh, I'll sleep when I'm dead. See you soon!!!
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