Happy Woman’s Day!
Today was our last day with the American team that came to visit us, they leave tomorrow morning. It was a good day. We started out by buying calla lilies for the girls because it’s woman’s day today! I’m not sure quite how it got started here, but it’s one of the busiest days for all the flower shops because all the men are supposed to buy flowers for the women that they know. We got our flowers from our favorite shop, located between the girls and the guys apartments. One of the student’s moms owns it.
After that we had a good time of discussing how we’re doing as a team, ending with a “hot seat” for each of us, where everyone encourages the person currently on the hot seat. This afternoon we went to a little town near Novi Sad called Sremski Karlovci, where we walked around for a while. There is a theology high school that we looked in and talked to some students at. Most of these students will be priests one day. It was interesting to hear them describe their day. Early start, 6:00. Two prayer services in the church, morning and evening. And lots of study. They said that people come from all over the world to study here. Two of the boys that we were talking to are from the US, one from Texas and the other from Florida.
Tonight we ate dinner together in the resteraunt attached to the brewery, and then split up as guys and girls.
Overall it was a good day. This was supposed to be a team building day, and it was good just to spend time together doing things a little different than our normal routine.
March 8th, 2007 at 10:45 pm
Yes, I heard about Women’s Day today and was intrigued at how popular it is in the former Soviet bloc nations. Very cool that you actually got to celebrate it. There should be more days where girls get flowers even if they don’t have boyfriends!