Not too much has been going on here in Albania. School begins here in the 18th, so the teachers have begun to go back and hang out at the school. Nothing is really happening with that yet though, we go and drink coffee, and then I usually go home.
I went to the school this morning, but neither of my counterparts were there. There is really no other reason for me to hang around there, so I went home for a little bit and then ended up here at the internet cafe.
I was in Puke again this past weekend though. We went up to camp. Juliete and I went up on Friday morning and were waiting for Joey. The last bus out of Tirana was at 1:00, and Joey arrived around 2:00. I stayed in Tirana with him though and we saw Pirates of the Carribean 2 which was pretty good but a little confusing... Its a movie though, and I dont really have any standards anymore. I would go to see just about any movie that is in English here, maybe some that aren't. After the movie we went to get some crepes and then sat and had some wine. We had to catch what we thought was the 5:30 bus for Puke (actually it was a 6:00 bus, but we didn't learn that until we got there at 5) and we woke up at 4 to walk across Tirana, so we didn't stay out very late the night before.
Anyways, we got to Puke on Saturday and hiked up to a hill to camp. The wind was blowing and it was pretty cold. We all assumed that the wind would die down, but nope. We were kind of on a plateau where the wind was the strongest. We slept there and froze. Its not like we have tents or anything either. It was really cold. It was fun though. It is always good to hang out with these people. Yesterday was also interesting, sitting for around 7 hours in a bus.
Albanians dont really camp, nor do they understand the concept, or even why people would want to camp. It isn't something that they do generally. One of our program managers came with us though and that was really nice. It is always good when the staff makes an effort to make connections on more of a personal level with the volunteers.