11/1/08

Last night was Halloween! It was funny because my roommate and I went up to this irish pub owned by this irish guy and all the peace corps people were there. It ended up being a good time and I made a lot of contacts. Anyways I wanted to talk about something else. The cultural difference between Luli and myself has made some things very difficult and makes things hard to adapt. When I ask if I can have something, like some of his bread or use his shoes, he considers it rude that I even ask. When he takes those same kind of things without asking at all, I consider it rude that he doesn’t ask. We do these things trying to be a nice guy but when we do it, it actually comes across rude to the other person. Its somewhat humorous that way. I did have a big discussion with him about all that and hopefully things will get a little better about it. From what I have noticed he likes to bullshit. He has told me that when he was about 17 he would go out every night and do drugs and spend about 100 euros a night. How his family could afford that I have no idea. If I was doing things like that back home I would get my ass kicked and here that just doesn’t seem possible. I may just start writing about all the shit he tells me so I can write my book. Also yesterday he told me that he was one of the biggest DJ’s in all of Macedonia and they wanted him to play all around and he was the person that started the people to dance the way that they do. So I guess he invented rave dancing here in Macedonia… good times