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The lovely young woman in today's pictures was the reporter who interviewed us today. Two of our hosts went with us to meet her at a coffee shop near our flat. She had lots of questions about our impressions of Lithuania, the people, the food, our students, the libraries, language issues, etc. She asked if we had had had any interesting experiences because of language problems. I told her that I had not known that hot chocolate and hot cocoa were different and had ordered hot chocolate by mistake. I told her I intend to keep making that mistake often. She also asked Del what effect he thought the e book would have on the printed book. Everyone looked at me and laughed because they know how much I love my Kindle. Daiva explained that I always bring my Kindle to class, and that it was the first they had seen. We told her about the events we have attended, and I had made a point to wear a pin I had bought in Palanga and my felted shawl. I was glad, because she asked if I had bought anything here. I commented that I would love to learn to make felt, and she showed us her earrings. She had made them herself, and they were beautiful. Hopefully we didn't do too badly I even broke out the bib girl shoes for the occasion. For me that means sensible heeled pumps. Picking my way over the cobblestone streets made me wonder even more how the young women here manage to walk in tall , tall, tall spike heels. Maybe the heels dig into the ice like my walking stick did, but now that the ice is gone, how do they manage not to break an ankle on the cobblestones?
I had a nice visit with the son of the coffee shop lady in the Humanities Faculty today. I always go in between classes for coffee, and today I knew that we would have linner insead of lunch and dinner because of the interview, so I asked what kind of pastry she had - using signs and English and a Lithuanian word or two. He came over and translated and we got to talking. He is about David's age and had dropped in to have coffee with his mom. He is a navigator on a container ship and spends one month at sea and one month at home. I was interested that the container ship has 12 cabins and that people book them a year in advance to travel around the Baltic. He gave me all sorts of advice for booking a cabin on the ferries to Stockholm. He said it is cheaper to do it by phone than with a travel agent and that we should ask for a discount. Sometimes they will give an actual discount or an upgrade.
His mother had him tell me that I should come back for lunch because she was serving a traditional Lithuanian specialty. I told him I couldn't today, but she does it every Wednesday, so I promised to come next week.
The cat in the today's pictures was sort of funny. It was almost as though it could understand English. I was opening the window this morning and told Del I saw a kitty just sitting there in the street. When it heard my voice, it came up closer and sat back down. I picked up the camera and and said that I was going to take a picture. It looked up as though posing, and as soon as I finished snapping the picture, it sashayed off. We have been interested that we have only seen 3 cats since we have been here and are not sure if the one possible stray dog was really a stray or if it was with someone butoff its leash. We see lots of small dogs being walked - lots of Moonpie's cousins, a bishon, some other type terriors, one Chihuahua (Remember how Les Nessman used to say that on WKRP ?) and neat little mutts. The last was a quote from Del.
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