what you waiting for?

So, there is something inexplicable that comes with leaving North America about my strange willingness to listen to music I would normally avoid with a vengeance. I mean, lord knows why, but I'm addicted to a Gwen Stefani song with such meaningful lyrics as: "Take a chance you stupid ho... You're still a super hot female." Now picture two cute Albanian boys singing and dancing, and you'll understand why I love it :) Actually, one of the things I enjoy most about Kosovo is it's love-affair with great music...Michael Jackson, Blondie, Prince, David Bowie... It's 80's night here every day, all day long, in every cafe and bar. It's awesome. Besides the wonderful soundtrack, today is beautiful and sunny, and it's days like these that make me appreciate being here most. Nearly all of the city's snow and ice has melted (which happily means my laundry no longer freezes on the line outside!), although there are still snow-covered mountains outside of the city that you can see when driving south towards Macedonia. Apparently, the Sharr mountain range is one of the highest in the Balkans, and I'm told that there is fabulous skiing somewhere around, too. Pristina, itself, has no mountains. Just hills. The hillside that you can see at the bottom of Garabaldit Street is a wealthy neighbourhood called Arberia, and the white in the picture is not only snow, but white houses... Work at the office is still slightly crazy and unpredictable, though. We finally got rid (she says jokingly) of the playwrights from around the Balkans, when a group of three Germans and two French came all the way to Kosovo for a three-day prep meeting for a youth exchange (planned for 2006). They flew out of Belgrade over the weekend, after a slight drama at the Serbian border was resolved (by driving them back through Macedonia). Anyway, they arrived safely at home, and lest we waste a single day, CCTD now has a guest from Scotland! He is here only for two days to lead acting and directing workshops, as well as to plan a visit by his Scottish Youth Theatre. He's great, and the accent is even better, but it has made CCTD very busy for the past week. And me, well, I'm just waiting to get back to the memory project... ...But, like Gwen says, with her good advice for all: "What you waiting for?"