saturday

Saturday two friends of mine and I took a road trip to Vlinius, capital of Lithuania. It was the perfect weather for it. Here are some pics from the day:)
 

Globalization

It has been quite interesting teaching on globalization in my classes. In the first one I showed a video that praised all the positive aspects of globalization so I had the students write a reflection on that and all of them were talking so highly about globalization and how it has helped so many poor [...]

Food and the poor: the new face of hunger

Apr 17th 2008
From The Economist print edition
Reuters
SAMAKE BAKARY sells rice from wooden basins at Abobote market in the northern suburbs of Abidjan in Côte d’Ivoire. He points to a bowl of broken Thai rice which, at 400 CFA francs (roughly $1) per kilogram, is the most popular variety. On a good day he used to [...]

the joys of teaching…..

A year ago I was teaching in Quito, Ecuador to some really amazing people who I really miss. I remember that me and some other volunteers were cooking with them, teaching basic math, Spanish and the greatest joy for them was when they finally understood how to built their own home budget. It was very simple [...]

the Balkans meet in the Baltics

So…this was one of the most fun nights I have ever had here in Lithuania. I invited over at my place the 4 Albanian students and the 2 macedonian. I cooked some Albanian food which is very similar to Macedonian and of course as a good Albanian I had to make a ton of it. [...]

Albania to join NATO

Allied leaders decided to invite Albania and Croatia to begin accession talks with NATO. The decision was announced at the Summit meeting of NATO Heads of State and Government in the Romanian capital Bucharest. The Heads of State and Government of the 26 NATO countries held an extraordinary session in the presence of their counterparts [...]

kids

I met Asta before I went to college at LCC. She is from Lithuania and she came to Albania to work together with her husband. After I finished college she invited me to work with her in Albania.  We had great times. Sometimes I babysat her kids who are very cute. She came to Lithuania yesterday [...]

Bday

So, few days ago I celebrated my bday. I had a good time:) must say that. Anyhow a good bday gift here was the SUNSHINE. I love the sun and this is a place where the sun comes and visits us only once in a couple of months. So when it does people are quite [...]