First day in town

This was exciting.


Zoran rang our door bell at 10:30 am. I wasn't even aware that we had a door bell. He said "We can go immediately if you are ready" so we went immediately. We didn't get bus tickets yet so we each had to pay 10 Kuna for a ticket. 1 Kuna is about .20 cents btw. So we rode down to the school and met some of the folks there, they're on break to right now so it was really laid back. The school is different than I expected with several floors, but it was nice. We filled out a form that would allow us to get a discount on the bus ticket subsidized by the Croatian Government. Technically we aren't supposed to be granted this discount because we aren't citizens of Croatia, but Zoran says that the school has such a reputation that it would be OK. After finishing up there we walked down into old Dubrovnik. He told us a little about the town and that we would be spending some time with him as a group around here as part of our Croatian Culture class. We rode the bus back and then Zoran told us we were free until tomorrow when everyone else arrived. Apparently Professor Axel was coming in tomorrow morning as well.

None of us had eaten very much since the plane ride so we decided to walk around. We found a pizzeria kind of thing and it looked friendly. We each had a cheese pizza. They didn't bring us a check until we asked, but it was money and time well spent, our first meal in Dubrovnik. The rest of the day was spent in the apartment, I went to sleep early again, 8:30 pm, I'm slowly adjusting to everything.


Woke up and went out with Brad and Stacy for a walk at around 2. We went to this cafe that Zoran had told us about. Stacy and I each had Cocoa, which is somehow different than Hot Chocolate. Stacy originally had ordered Hot Chocolate and he said, that they don't have any, but they do have Cocoa. We finished there and then went to the Grocery store and each picked up a few things. Now we're waiting for the other students to arrive.