Day 3 (Or How I stopped worrying and made three new friends)

Words of advice, if you're willing to endure 48 straight hours of awake, you will not be jet lagged when you get to your destination. Yesterday marked our our first full day in Sarajevo. Right down the street from KAIROS is a small, and mean tiny, bakery that Greg, myself, and Emily decided to grab breakfast. Two jogurts and 8 pastries later (the pizza pocket is fantastic, if you're reading this, stop, fly to Bosnia right now and get one) we got dolled up and went to the EUS HQ, which is across from the Presidential building. Here is where Deron and Laz briefed us on our first assignment: break into pairs, find University campus and survey the student. The Morelli and I were put into a team and the campus we were assigned to was Electrical Engineering, criminal stuff and traffic & communication. Needless to say it was quite a daunting task. Now, to say I wasn't able to instigate a conversation is like saying the Atlantic Ocean is damp, but Emily, God bless her, was fantastic at it. It must have been some sort of major exams week as a lot of the students were quite busy, but we were able to get 7 surveys (6 for Emily, 1 for me WOO) done. That being said, our last full survey we that we took we met a couple of really cool cats, Saša and Elvis, whom I gave the nickname The King. Saša it turns out lived in Denver for about a year with an organization which, as I understood it, was like a foreign babysitters R us. He said he had a great time though. After we finished the survey they both agreed to meet us in front of the BBI (giant shopping mall) for coffee. Emily, myself, Sarah, Kevin and Greg were the little squad that showed up, Saša and Elvis were right on time and they brought a lady friend of theirs by the name of Irmela. Lovely gal. Us as a team thought we would be going to one of the large places for coffee, but they instead took us to a lesser known place deep in the downtown area. Drink choices were 3 colas, 2 coffees (with mljeko) and 3 pilsners. All 8 hoisted to a heartfelt živjeli (cheers) and we proceeded to shoot the breeze for nearly an hour and a half.

Now, this is where, at least what we Americans perceive as an anomaly comes in, even though we had all just met, after about 20 minutes you'd have though we'd all known each other for years. Around 4:40 in the PM our new friends had to head off, as they had some plans, but we got numbers. We then trekked back to KAIROS for dinner where I introduced Greg, and eventually Luke and Sarah to Top Gear. Now, their are some new fans. Till next time, Rule 32.