Weekly

 Okay so today we were Walking back to our apartment and there was the EURO game going on with Poland and Slovakia I think it was and I peeked in and started watching and there were these two older dudes there and we all reacted at the same time when there was a big save towards the end and I was like "yo who do you want to win?" And we just started talking and we all sat down and chatted for like an hour. It was so cool like literally never would I expect do be in Bosnia and then just sit and chat with two Balkans in Bosnian about their lives and languages and such. They both were good friends growing up and lived in Italy during the war. They were both so nice and we exchanged contacts so hopefully we can meet up with them again. There names were Haris and Zoran.

We met a good chunk with members here this week and helped out in the ways we could, like with welfare and some spiritual messages here and there. The bigger things were that we got some good service in! We kept doing some work at this soup kitchen called Mozaik Prijateljstva which was a ton of fun. This week there we just helped prepare food and set out clothes for people to come by and take.

We made a good friend with a guy named Damir who is this awesome 18 year old guy who lives here. He wants to practice his english and hang out with us so we did just that. The next day he came with us to meet with these other people we met who were from Argentina and Venezuela at this event they were hosting. They are some fun people who met and married some Balkans and now they live here haha, the event was just to show some Latin American culture and stuff so it was way fun to help out. And oh boy, my Spanish is literally dust now. Every time I try to say anything besides the basics it just comes out in Bosnian. Anyway, it was a lot of fun with all of them! We tried some candy from Argentina which was pretty good. And now that we have met them and stuff, we are planning to meet again with them and American Corner to set up an intercultural night which would be an event where we could all share something about where we are from! We are super excited for that. I find the most joy in doing fun things like these and helping in the community and such, it's awesome. So back to Damir. We are planning to start meeting with him weekly and teaching english and such. He also asked if we wanted to play soccer sometime and i have never been more excited. I just gotta buy a ball, find some time, and then we will go play. 

On the topic of english, we had our second class of the english discussion group which had a great turn out again! Some new people came and we made some new friends. We are actually planning on hanging out with them this following week so that is gonna be tons of fun. Later this week we will also be having zone conference in person in Sarajevo so i am also excited to head back to the home land hahah. plus this weekend we are going to meet with a horse club ranch thing out near Banja Luka to set up some more service there. We are just tight on cars right now so once we have a way to get there every week we are going to volunteer there as well. This following week should be good, lots of stuff to look forward to. If we could: play soccer, visit Sarajevo, set up more service, teach more english, and hang out with some more local friends all in one week, I would be ecstatic. Unfortunately I don't think we will be able to fit it all in one week so we might spread it out, which is also good. Either way, some fun stuff coming up.

Ooo one more additional note: we met up with another one of our friends from english. He is such a fun and nice guy, his name is Andrej Doko. He is catholic and we talked about going with him to check out their cathedral and stuff. We also are planning to play soccer with him and some of his buddies at some point. They host these little fun events every so often so i want to join some of them (low key very jealous).

 

Last note: today we are planning on playing some pool which is the funnest thing ever. I missed playing haha, all i need now is some golf, pickle ball, and spikeball.

I hope everyone is doing just dandy wherever you're at! Not many pictures this week but I'll send what i do got.