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Sunday, February 22nd, 2009

Prague, Czech Republic.

Things didn’t work out at the farm. Last week was a very stressful week for us. I got an email Sunday from one of the graduate schools I applied to saying they were missing something from my application, and that I had one week to turn it in. But they didn’t say what. I tried frantically emailing the woman to ask what it was I was missing (after checking online that everything was checked off as being done and that they’d received my transcripts). She didn’t respond. Finally on Wednesday I emailed her again and also the Graduate Division as a whole, and my Department. I also had Steve’s sister Laura call them, since I realized I had put her down as an authorized representative (smart thinking). Finally Laura got some answers. It seems they were missing my entire application (for the Graduate Division. The department’s application was mailed in and they received it). Pretty confusing when I could look at it online and see that it was both there and marked off as submitted. But it was some sort of computer glitch, and a couple of very nice people fixed the problem and everything is okay now. But I could’ve done and said not so nice things to the woman who didn’t respond to me until I wrote everyone else, too. I’m trying to tell myself that maybe she was out sick, but when she finally emailed me it wasn’t apologetic.

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Tired, dirty kids

Sunday, February 15th, 2009

(near) Gospic, Croatia (the birthplace of Nikola Tesla).

What a week! We have survived our first week working on a farm in the Croatian winter. And so far it’s been really good. Today is our first day off, and it’s a true day off since we’re planning on doing absolutely nothing and Silja (pronounced Celia), the other WWOOFer here is graciously taking care of the horses (we’re going to rotate Sunday horse duty–letting them outside, cleaning their stalls, and letting them back in at night and giving them food, tea (!) and their medicines).

We took the bus from Zadar to Gospic on Saturday after spending Friday wandering around Zadar. We had a nice day Friday enjoying the beautiful city. The sea organ was absolutely amazing. Whoever thought them up is a genius. The one in Zadar is very subtle. There are steps at the ocean and you can sit on them and listen to the waves and the organ sounds that the waves make as they hit the underwater stuff that makes it work. (I have no idea how they work and the internet here is too slow and temperamental to try to look it up right now.) But it was beautiful. Very relaxing and pretty. We had a delicious dinner of meats and gravy and potatoes. And we went to bed early to escape the cold and to get a good night’s sleep before getting up at 6 again the next morning to get to the bus station on time. [read on]

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Friday, February 6th, 2009
Zadar, Croatia. Our last few days in Italy were pretty uneventful. It kept raining. I got over my cold with the help of lots of naps. We ate a lot of pizza and salads and drank yummy wine. It was cold, ... [Continue reading this entry]