Day 11.1

Today is the day that Alec goes to Peru! Luckily I have no scheduled interviews so I can hang out by the computer monitoring everything via Skype and AA airline tracking!

Okay so I guess I'm a bit more concerned than I thought I would be.

On a side note, however, I just received this email from the Atlantic Council in Serbia:

Dear Susanna,

Thank you for your mail. I would like to inform you that Mr. Vladan Zivulovic, President of the Atlantic Council of Serbia will be able to meet you regarding the interview.

If you agree,on Tuesday , June 16, we will be organize a meeting at our premises in 83, Bulevar oslobodjenja street. I will contact you on Monday to confirm all details.

Best regards,

Jelena Jelicic,

Project manager of the Atlantic Council of Serbia,

11 000 Belgrade, Bulevar oslobodjenja street 83,

Tel/fax: +381 11 39 75 643

Mob. : +381 64 66 86 359

e-mail: jjelicic@atlanticcouncil.rs

*happydance*!!!


Okay so this gives me a new direction for today! I can monitor Alec's travels while I research everything possible concerning the ACS and begin to prepare a kick ass interview!!! Finally I'll be able to use my new digital recorder

I have a confession which I can now make. I've been a bit depressed because I had yet to get an interview with someone like the ACS. Yesterday I drowned my sorrows in some shopping. I picked my gifts for Andy and Abby (my future bro and sis in law --omg guys that sounds bizzarre! :-p) but.... then I headed to Zara-- cute racerback tank top and sweater--and then to Lilly (a drugstore here in Belgrade) and emerged with 4 bottles of my favorite nailpolish which sadly can only be found in Europe-- Bourjois.


Silly I know but yet strangely comforting. My toes are now a sparkling fuchsia and finger nails a deep purple. And yes I know I'll have to redo them before my meeting on Tuesday but for the moment they are quite fun!

In case anyone seek is interesting in similarly monitoring Alec's every move here's his info:

Flight number	AA577
From	NEW YORK - JOHN F KENNEDY Terminal 8
To	MIAMI INTL
Depart	11 Jun 2009 11:10
Arrive	11 Jun 2009 14:28

Flight number	AA917
From	MIAMI INTL
To	LIMA - J CHAVEZ INTL
Depart	11 Jun 2009 17:15
Arrive	11 Jun 2009 21:55

Alright well nothing more for the moment!

Day 9.1

Running out the door to today's interview with Nebojsa Vladisavljevic. Very sorry for being so bad at blogging lately. I'm still alive and loving Belgrade. The interviews are just leaving me so exhausted that I can barely type them up much less blog about them :-p (still working on typing up Dusan's interview!)

Anyways I plan on doing some exploration tomorrow after my interview at 11 with Ana Trbovich so that should be great.

Gotta dash!

Cao!
suzi

Day 7.2

Interview with Bogdana went quite well.

Still processing...

On the frivolous side today I got The Prisoner of Azkaban, Where's Waldo in Hollywood, and a Tintin collection in Serbian!!! annnd, even better, I successfully paid for them using only Serbian! (Vesna you should be very proud :-p)

I also made a waiter laugh by ordering in Serbian, I guess my accent was bad but he said he understood me. Speaking of which, yesterday I forgot to mention, I went to buy musli, and yogurt at a corner store and freaked the clerk out because he honest to goodness thought I spoke Serbian-- I should explain-- I've gotten good at doing the smiling and nodding thing when I kind of understand what's going on through body language and minimal language skills. Apparenty I did such a good job that he totally bought it-- it took a few seconds to convince him that I actually had no idea what he had been saying. Luckily he thought it was funny! Once again I'm the wierd American girl traipsing around a foreign country trying not to act like an idiot and often failing.

Experiences like these are helping to balance the intensity of my interviews.
Sigh... okay so tomorrow I have a meeting with Dusan Pavlovic at the Faculty of Political Science at 12:30. Planning on taking my first Serbian taxi! (thanks once again Vesna for the number!) I tried to figure out the buses but I couldn't find a bus map anywhere online. I probably should have just gone to a bus stop or some place for a hard copy but silly me I'm used to everything being online accessible. Oh well. According to my maps it's only a few km away so shouldn't be a big deal. I'm going to call at 11 and hopefully it'll all work out!!!

Missing everyone and for all my non-Serb readers-- you must put Belgrade at the top of your international travel to-do list. :-D