Belgrade / Beograd

So I have made it to Belgrade. So far it is cold, and dirty, and gray, and there are no environmental emission standards so I may be coming home with a black lung or two, but i can't say i dislike it yet. We left Zagreb at 8 yesterday morning and arrived here (by bus) at 2. After lunch- chinese food of all things- we got our new cell phones, well sim cards. We met our families, and I am again with an older couple, Buba and her husband whose name i have not heard. She is very funny, a pretty tough chimney smoking woman in her early sixties. I have a great room with a piano and computer (internet access from home!) and it is right on one of the main streets. Around the corner is the bar where i am supposed to meet my millionaire Serbian husband, or so i am told. We met at the cafe near our classroom, we are borrowing from some fakultet here, that situation is still a bit fuzzy for me, but it will probably work out. Buba and her husband (he seems very nice, but doesn't speak any english) have a son, Andrje. He lives with his own family (a wife and 13 year old son) not too far away and he is very interested in politics. Its still a bit vague as well, but he is very political and one thing that seems to be true about Serbia and it's Serbs is that they are very open and love talking politics. You can ask them anything. Very refreshing and while taken with a grain of salt very interesting. More to come later, i am off to breakfast. Also, everyone should feel free to post/respond/comment however that works. It feels incredibly egotistical to be writing about myself seemingly to myself, so if you have any questions/comments etc. etc. please do share. much love to all!