Okay so this week was kind of a roller coaster. So we started by driving up to Tuzla, which is like a 2 hour drive, and so we got some very nice naps on the drive hahah. While there we met with a bunch of people. One of which was someone I met on my Facebook page named Džemal (pronounced jemal) who is literally the greatest guy ever! He is like 72 but when we met, he was the most energetic guy and so fun! It was really nice because he keep complimenting our language ability (my companion is a LOT better than me). He would say "you've only learned for that long? BRAVO!" It was a real confidence booster since I've been feeling down about my language. He hikes like 6 hours a day and love just doing active stuff. We plan to meet with him when we go to Tuzla again so I really look forward to that. We also met with one of our friends from Toastmasters (weekly activity to practice foreign language) and he is the funniest guy I have ever met. Also while in Tuzla we checked out two humanitarian activities our senior couple was doing there: funding a new water tank for a silo and a new bakery to feed the hungry. While at the Bakery opening, we had lunch with the mayor of Tuzla which was cool and a lot of other people from this service group called Merhamet. We got in contact with two of the people who are the heads of Banja Luka and Tuzla so we hope to do service stuff with them.After that we came back to Sarajevo and met with some people who are in the scouts of Bosnia to see if we could set up any service opportunities together which seems pretty promising. During that meeting I got a little roasted for my language hahah (so ups and downs this week) so that was a bummer, but tis what happens. Then we have also been preparing for an interview on the radio with one of the most famous radio stations in Sarajevo. They want an interview because of our service page we created called Služimo! Sarajevo. Basically a little service group we created to allow us to offer volunteer service and allow other people to join/ask for service. So that will be a lot of fun. We are going to have a member with us to help make sure we don't butcher anything on the radio (language-wise and just anything-wise).
OOH another fun thing this week was that we got Audited twice haha which is basically when the branch presidency (us) gets checked on our financial stuff to make sure everything is in line. It lasted like 4 hours so that was fun.
Then a little sickness went around so we had to quarantine for the remainder of the week pretty much which meant a lot of Facebook work which is okay. There was a LOT more stuff to be happy about.
Anywho Lijep pozdrav.
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