Monday, March 10, 2008

/ded

All this walking might be something that wouldn't make me feel like napping on the sidewalk if it was less like hiking.

Not hiking in the traditional sense of climbing through a natural, peaceful landscape with wildlife and birdcalls, but with buses that try to kill pedestrians and hoards (possibly a hyperbole) of stray cats instead of the occasional squirrel or chipmunk.

Today Zoran told me that my name in Croatian means fox. This gives my entire life a greater sense of meaning, and my everyday actions purpose. Perhaps I will devise a clever blog title using this knowledge.

Today I trekked around the old city with Ian and Zoran, and we strayed off the Stradun into more residential areas. (And up a lot of steps, and we wonder why Europeans are thin.) It keeps occurring to me that to live within the walls must be very similar to living in a museum. I said this as two natives were passing, and Zoran told me they repeated what I said. /n00b

Stacy and I discussed this evening how much being here feels like vacation. It's coming to an end of sorts, with the start of classes, and I feel like I should be getting back to RIT.