6.5 hours to fun!

i've always considered myself to be a person to focus on the positive rather than the negative..and so when peace corps had me feeling like a lemon i made some lemonade...to escape the funk i had three friends over last weekend...we did what most people in albania do, eat, drink, and be merry...it was great to hang out and make fun of each other, and talk about problems/issues with work in addition to opportunities and successes...but that weekend ended and i decided i actually wanted to get out of gramsh this time...so i decided to visit my fellow group 13ers kumar and brittany...it takes about 6.5 hours of travel time plus maybe an hour or so of walking/wait time to get over to where they live fush arrez from gramsh...but it was def. worth the trip...

it was nice to hear stories from both kumar and brittany and catch up on time lost since we all went our separate ways after training...the first night kumar let me know that there were some wedding celebrations in town, and he was invited...these wedding celebrations are simply music blasting all day long, and people congregating to dance whenever there was enough around for a group...typically at night these dances grow...this particular night it happened to be raining, but it only made the dancing that much more fun...needless to say we had a couple beers and a shot or 2 of raki to get loosened up...but when we hit the dance parties we brought the thunder...haha, not really..but everyone had a good time...kumar and brittany live in a small village with about 2500 people i believe...it seems as though kumar and brittany are semi-celebrities, so the wedding parties def. appreciated our attendance...

i didn't get any pictures partly cuz the rain, and partly cuz i've never been good at remembering to take pictures, but we made our way back to kumars house and passed out shortly after...

like i said though, it was nice to see a different version of peace corps in albania...

oh yea, my beard is starting to fill in pretty good as well...