I tried to post pictures, but to no avail. I dont understand. I think that it takes a while, but I dont have a while.
Puke was a lot of fun. It was really fun to hang out with John and joey again for a few days. I went on Sunday, and came back on Wednesday. This was all for business leave to watch a class of John's on Tuesday morning. This is your tax dollars at work folks. It was a lot of fun though.
I may have already said this, but I think that people here view the north like we view the South in the United States. Totally backwards with weird people, but most of them have never actually been there. When I told people that I was going to Puke (in the north) they were usually pretty suprised or shocked and asked why I would go there. Most of them have never been there.
The only one who was really excited was my host mother, who was born in tropoja (sp?) which is even farther north than Puke. That is blood feud country up there. I wont get into blood feuds or cannon law here, mainly because I dont know much about it. You can always look that up somewhere else. Peace Corps volunteers arent even allowed to go to Tropoja though because it is kind of dangerous.
Anyhoo, the north kind of reminded me of Colorado. It wasn't the furnace that is Kucove or the central region where I live. There were a lot of pine trees and mountains. I miss that smell. The town itself was really nice. It wasn't like the typical Albanian town, there was a different character to it. The buildings were more old poor Europe than the brick communist style buildings that you usually see in other towns.