In love with Croatia...

Hello guys!
Very sorry for vanishing from the blogosphere. I have been in Croatia for exactly six weeks today. It has been a crazy and wonderful experience. I know I should have blogged regularly but I had trouble getting access to the internet. But I think it is better this way because now I will filter out all the silly details and tell you about all the awesomeness of Croatia!

That reminds me, I live with two Americans! Yes, I know, it is tough, but what can I say?! I'm just kidding. I've had a great time with my housemates. We have a two bedroom tiny apartment with a lovely patio and a beautiful view of the old town. I live in Dubrovnik, by the way. Croatia is a huge country, and I am studying in a small city, which is very popular amongst tourists on the Southern coast of Croatia. The southern part is very narrow so Dubrovnik is just a few mountains away from Bosnia. Which brings me to where I am right now - Zagreb.

Zagreb is the capital city of Croatia. It is an hour away by air from Dubrovnik. I arrived here this morning and will go back to Dubrovnik tomorrow night. The purpose of my visit is to get a tourist visa for Bosnia. I am staying at a really cool and strangely decorated hotel very close to the Main Center (sort of like Downtown Zagreb). I walked around all day today - to the Bosnian consulate, the bank, Mcdonald's, movie theatre, Indian resturaunt, and back to the hotel. I'm in love with this city. Dubrovnik is beautiful, but it is the kind of place you go for a month long holiday, if you can afford it. Zagreb is what you go back to after the vacation.

The city is like a minature version of New York city, with trams on the street in stead of the underground subway. Shopping places here got me drooling. I HAVE to shop tomorrow. I was also excited to come here because I love traveling alone, and even though my housemates are awesome (rest of the group can go drown in the Adriatic sea for all I care), I really needed some space. And I got more than I asked for.

The hotel I am at didn't have any single rooms available so they gave me a twin bedroom. I have two beds, two TVs (with English channels!!!!), two bathrooms, and two windows! I have a million photographs by now and it will be impossible to share them all with you. I will go back, edit some and then unpload them.

Until then, feel free to google places I talk about. Like Hotel Ilica (where I am right now) in Zagreb; Korčula (where we attended the special Good Friday procession); Dubrovnik and the charming Old Town; Lokrum (this crazy island where I will go soon); Ston and Moliston (where I had the most expensive and delicious meal till now - shrimp risotto); Mostar and Sarajevo (in Bosnia, where I will hopefully be this weekend), and finally Venice (hopefully next weekend)!!

There is some studying going on along with all of this, and a thesis proposal in the process of being prepared, and a trip back to America (another 3 weeks and 2 days left), a film festival with my film in it :) for which my parents will be present (!!), and finally a trip to India in June.

So until I blog again, adio!