Sarajevo - weeks 1/2

Blog entry: Sarajevo!

8/22/2010

I’m nor sure I have ever seen a week go by so quickly as the one that just occurred since we arrived in Sarajevo. One of the benefits of working for a company such as QSI (Quality Schools International) is the way your travel arrangements, shipping allowances, pick up at the airport, transportation to our apartment, and living quarters stocked with food is respective of our commitment to work for them.

We spent the week getting to know our fellow new employee, touring our new place of work, setting up our apartment, and learning that Sarajevo is an incredible town to walk in no matter what time of the day it is. People here love to walk and talk!!!

Our area of town is called Ciglane, one of many ridges that make up the town. We can access “Centar” , “Old town”, and roughly 5,000 outdoor café’s, via 255 vertical steps. We do get our exercise!!!! Our Opel can get us to school in roughly 15 min. (Susan has really white knuckles) and as I become more of a local driver that time should decrease.

We are setup with Wireless Internet (although we were out for a week due to router issues), we are trying to reserve Sunday evening our time to call or Skype

8/28/2010 We completed our first two days of school and it couldn’t have gone much better! Small class sizes, huge support from the national staff, excellent leadership, and one fine schedule made for an encouraging start. I won’t mention air conditioning in my room!!!!

We are enjoying our first “lazy” Saturday which will include a visit to the green market, Susan’s going clothes shopping (it has been really hot here), and I may have to visit a Café for a coffee or Pivo (the first Bosnian word I learned). I will try to go back and give you snapshots of places we visited in the past weeks so this blog may be a bit jumbled to begin, bear with! Dovidjena (Goodbye)