You know, there are times in your life that you just have to laugh...and in Kosovo, you do it loudly. This past Saturday, Andriy and I headed south of the border (Macedonia, not Mexico!) to see about picking up some tickets for a Deep Purple concert in Skopje. At the Kosovo-Macedonian border as we were entering Macedonia, we witnessed something that just made us smile, shake our heads in disbelief, and laugh out loud. There was a KS-vehicle in front of us at the border. Supposedly to save money on fuel, one of the popular things to do while waiting in line is to get out and push your vehicle. Well, this strapping, healthy 20-30 year-old man had his 70 year-old grandfather get out and push the car across the border! Truly unbelievable to see this old man pushing a car through the border (at least 20-30 minutes in the hot sun as well!) Maybe the old man didn't know how to drive but his grandson could have at least sacrificed a pack of cigarettes as to not make the poor man push the car through the border on a hot summer day!
The weather has been going from hot to rain to hot to rain. As I usually say, just wait five minutes and the weather will change. As a strange turn of events, my power was off for eight hours last night. There seem to be some problems at the power station and some speculate that unless the problems are fixed soon, we may be without any power from KEK (worst case scenario would be no power from KEK but importing from outside...probably paid for by the UN).
It's wedding season again! Yup, this year it is my mission to capture the Kosovo wedding convoy in action on Skopje highway or elsewhere in Pristina. Seeing is believing and before I leave the mission, I have to have it down on film. The tradition is quite interesting and the people seem to be enjoying themselves so much that I really want to get a picture for the site. I wished I had my camera on Sunday when I went to Bondsteel because there was a wedding convoy with several traditionally dressed musicians on the back of a flatbed truck playing on the side of the road. Ah, se la vie...whenever you really need a camera you usually don't have one!
