Tuesday, March 11, 2008
A rainy day in Sarajevo...
So I had to go pay a gas bill, and that is best done by going to the post office. I am still not up for the maze of crossings by my place, so it made sense to take a bus, and just go into town, besides I really am getting cabin fever from sitting home so much. It isn't what I came here to do, but so it goes! Now that my body is not acting like a badly managed robot, complete with echos and the brain slopping around like jello, it is better. I actually feel like a human being.
The flu tried to fight back. I slept a lot the last couple days, I missed 'Sleeper Cell' which is kind of an interesting show. It's about an extremist sleeper cell. Edo Maajke and at least one other Bosnian musician have contributed music to the show. I was simply too tired to stay up that late. It is pretty useful for subtitles. I really think the music is good. Even though they have a consultant, they do occasionally get little details wrong, but the effort was sincere, and the show does hold one's interest.
A show I really like for kids here is 'Priča Kulin bana' They don't run it often, it must be an old show, anyway they reran my favorite episode, the one which is about how Kulin Ban made laws protecting cats. There were kids dancing around dressed up as cats, and so on. Very cute.
A show that my kids would have liked if it were shown in the States is 'Gladiator Academy', I bet my grandchildren would like it. It is dubbed into Bosnian, so it is good for listening for key phrases. Gladiator Academy is a cartoon show about gladiators, and it is not at all bloody, there are fights of course, come on this is gladiators! Very cute, and then this morning I saw the Shuttle launch live on Euronews, good luck guys! I haven't watched a launch live in YEARS. I used to watch launches all the time, my sister and I did so together, it was an easy way to get to stay home! In those days you would look at the afterburners a long time before the launch, and the countdowns were like forever! We watched the educational channel for launches, all the comercial networks would still run the Lucy show until the actual countdown got to T-20 or T-15, I probably still could draw an accurate afterburner!
Gotovina starts trial today. They showed on Euronews the full length shot of his arrest. The short one most blogs have had doesn't make it plain that he tried to get the Hell out, and that patrons in the restaraunt where he was arrested were startled!
For the most part Croats accused of war crimes, especially the big fish have surrendered to the authorities, he was the exception, he went on the run, rather expesively so.
The flu tried to fight back. I slept a lot the last couple days, I missed 'Sleeper Cell' which is kind of an interesting show. It's about an extremist sleeper cell. Edo Maajke and at least one other Bosnian musician have contributed music to the show. I was simply too tired to stay up that late. It is pretty useful for subtitles. I really think the music is good. Even though they have a consultant, they do occasionally get little details wrong, but the effort was sincere, and the show does hold one's interest.
A show I really like for kids here is 'Priča Kulin bana' They don't run it often, it must be an old show, anyway they reran my favorite episode, the one which is about how Kulin Ban made laws protecting cats. There were kids dancing around dressed up as cats, and so on. Very cute.
A show that my kids would have liked if it were shown in the States is 'Gladiator Academy', I bet my grandchildren would like it. It is dubbed into Bosnian, so it is good for listening for key phrases. Gladiator Academy is a cartoon show about gladiators, and it is not at all bloody, there are fights of course, come on this is gladiators! Very cute, and then this morning I saw the Shuttle launch live on Euronews, good luck guys! I haven't watched a launch live in YEARS. I used to watch launches all the time, my sister and I did so together, it was an easy way to get to stay home! In those days you would look at the afterburners a long time before the launch, and the countdowns were like forever! We watched the educational channel for launches, all the comercial networks would still run the Lucy show until the actual countdown got to T-20 or T-15, I probably still could draw an accurate afterburner!
Gotovina starts trial today. They showed on Euronews the full length shot of his arrest. The short one most blogs have had doesn't make it plain that he tried to get the Hell out, and that patrons in the restaraunt where he was arrested were startled!
For the most part Croats accused of war crimes, especially the big fish have surrendered to the authorities, he was the exception, he went on the run, rather expesively so.
# posted by Katja R. @ 4:21 AM 
