This blog has officially seen me through three ages! I write this as a proud 21-year old, and I'm sure you can tell that I am significantly wiser and more sophisticated than I was when I last posted as a naive 20-year old lamb. The celebrations started on the 11th, when Albania played Switzerland in their first game in the European cup. They lost, but it was a very fun and spirited scene! A group of 9 of us stopped by a local jazz street festival for a couple hours- I may be missing Newport Jazz, but at least I get to see Shkoder Jazz- and then made our way to a few bars, before stopping at the much talked about "Party in the Forest". I wasn't sure what I was expecting, but it was pretty much exactly that. In the middle of a campground was a DJ stage, lights, bars, lots of people, and of course a barbecue (Eastern Europeans love their meat). After dancing, eating, and toasting to my lost youth, we made an impromptu drive to the lake to take a quick dip, and it wasn&#
