Post by Jaga on Sept 3, 2011 22:31:00 GMT -7
For Carl and others:
www.huffingtonpost.com/eliza-dushku/albania-travel-_b_946341.html
I'm an Albanian-Danish-American from Boston. Those who know me, know that I take great pride in being a Bostonian.....
When I was a little girl during my first trip to Greece, we woke up in a tiny village and walked across the street for breakfast not knowing that we deeply offended our host family by choosing the restaurant on the wrong corner. We unknowingly entered into a dispute going back to the interwar period between fascists and communists. When we asked how this could still matter, we found that to our friends it was as if it happened yesterday. Blind tourist? Or the beginning of a big lesson that came back to me as I sat on a rock on an Albania beach and looked up at an ancient ruin on the mountainside. I knew there were stories to be found, if I could find the right people.
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www.huffingtonpost.com/eliza-dushku/albania-travel-_b_946341.html
I'm an Albanian-Danish-American from Boston. Those who know me, know that I take great pride in being a Bostonian.....
When I was a little girl during my first trip to Greece, we woke up in a tiny village and walked across the street for breakfast not knowing that we deeply offended our host family by choosing the restaurant on the wrong corner. We unknowingly entered into a dispute going back to the interwar period between fascists and communists. When we asked how this could still matter, we found that to our friends it was as if it happened yesterday. Blind tourist? Or the beginning of a big lesson that came back to me as I sat on a rock on an Albania beach and looked up at an ancient ruin on the mountainside. I knew there were stories to be found, if I could find the right people.
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