Nachricht Nummer : 293
Übertragungszeit : 3 min 32 sec
Nachricht von    : WAM@ZAMIR-ZG.zer.sub.org
Betrifft         : Zagreb Diary 28 October, 1993
Erstellungsdatum : 02.11.1993 16:20:00 W+1

Realname: Wam Kat

Zagreb Diary 28 October, 1993

Dobar dan,

A few weeks I was talking with some friends about the virtual town, 
which is a project in Amsterdam, to hook up all important town 
computers or so. Anyway when I was thinking about the virtual town and 
when I saw those computer animation's from Jurissic Park on a 
television commercial I went crazy. Imagine that possibility, you can as it 
were create with the modern computer equipment a image of e.g. 
Pakrac, how  it was before the war, how it is know and how it can be in 
the future. But of course an idea which would work in the near future. 
Still an interesting idea that you in fact technical are possible to build 
virtual towns, and maybe virtual countries. We have been talking so 
often about it, the virtual village of BiH. I have heard that at least two 
clubs from Bosnia town will join our network in Zagreb.

I felt a bit better so I joint the people in the "new" house for the last 
cleaning round. The roof is now made, the windows repaired, most of 
the wall fresh painted and more important there is a heather. I can't tell 
you that feeling standing in front of a heather after been in a cold school 
for 3 days. It is if every cell in your body slowly wakes up, you feel the 
heat coming through your vains. I was as undercoolded as last year in 
Medjugorje during the Yugo winds, sometimes the quick silver went to 
more than 20 degrees belong zero Celsius. And the building where we 
slept was an empty hotel, from the 50.000 pilgrims per day who use to 
come to that place, not more than 100 will come today. The central 
heating was turned of since the owner had no money. And only when 
you could borrow an electric heather ones and a while you got some life 
in your body. 

On such moment you start to think what a luxe it is to have electricity or 
rather to have the possibility to get your house at least a bit warm. All 
those people in this area, who haven't got that possibility. Our "new" 
house has a heather and that is luxe. 

Our new house also smells a lot from the waxes I have been spreading 
on the floors, after I bought all the bottles wax in the supermarkets in the 
town. I was unable to buy dustbins as planned as well, since two of the 
three local banks run out of Croatian money. But now the floor is 
blinking as it should in a palace.  

The radio programme didn't take place, the Austrians were held up with 
their bus somewhere at the other side and came too late to go to 
Daruvar. Next week better, it has learned us at least that we have to be 
in contact with all authorities in this area before we can move freely. And 
that is a nice task to get fixed before the project grows.
 
Sometimes you live for week from bread with Danish Feta cheese and 
than suddenly half the room stands full with food. That was a little bit the 
feeling this week, first on Monday the working brigades gave us big 
boxes full of juices, sugar and butter. Than on Tuesday two ArgBat 
UNPROFOR soldiers from the barracks in the hospital brought tons of 
pasta and at least 600 eggs (that is going to be omelette three times a 
day for at least 3 weeks), instant coffee, milk and tea. On top of it today 
two other members from ArgBat, from the main barracks in Pakrac, 
arrived with an other jeep full of goodies. They brought even fresh 
vegetables for us. And asked us to spread it around a bit in the town, 
since they are not allowed to gave something to the "locals". So all the 
working brigade will have omelette this week.

Jojo has come to bring me back to Zagreb in a warm car and he 
explains me what is happening with this Argentineans. Most of them 
have just figured out were they are. And they had imagine it all totally 
different. The most important thing is that they know that they are not 
liked in the World, the history of the Argentinean army is particular a 
short one. So they feel themselves more or less seen as fascist by the 
rest of the World. Their reaction is to be perfect soldiers in the UN 
missions. But some how they fall out of their role again, since they are 
not use to live an isolated life. So they try to get in contact with the 
locals. And indeed you see this UN ArgBat a lot more often informal in 
the town, when they stand in line to phone home in front of the post 
office, but also on the market. I never ever have seen a Canadian 
phoning in public.   

On the way back to Zagreb we talked among other things about the 
importance of  fashion in this region. Not only the fact that the fashion 
show in Pakrac was so well attended and on national news, but fashion 
is all around you. In Zagreb more clothes shops have been opened in 
the last year (in the centre at least) as anything else. Refugees who 
spend their last money on expensive clothes and shoes. Bata opens on 
the main square, Diesel has just opened a shop in Tkalciceva, Benneton 
is beside the postoffice and so are also here foreign companies taking 
over. Another new fact is that war souvenirs are now nearly totally out of 
the picture. Even in the last market place they have been changing there 
stuff in the last weeks. More than even Zagreb is heading for it aim, a 
new cosmopolite capital in this part of the world. Or is it just a facade, 
who knows...... 
 
Bok I Mir from Zagreb,

							Wam
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