Nachricht Nummer : 287 Übertragungszeit : 3 min 40 sec Nachricht von : WAM@ZAMIR-ZG.zer.sub.org Betrifft : Zagreb Diary 30 October, 1993 Erstellungsdatum : 01.11.1993 10:08:00 W+1 Realname: Wam Kat Zagreb Diary 30 October, 1993 Dobar dan, "Black Bread will cost 3000 HDR" stood this morning on all the newspapers, I don't know what the price was before, but obvious is was a little higher, at the moment some of the price are really going down as the government has promised. Srdjan found out e.g. that a telephone call to Slovenia is now 0,001 DEM cheaper and to Germany 0,008 DEM (at the first of October the prices of International Phonecalls went up enormous since from that moment Slovenia was considered as a real foreign country (for telephone, and so one minute Slovenia became to cost of one minute Austria and Austria costs now as much as one minute Germany before, and so on, very nice if you have an BBS running which is depended for long distances calls), so we are really happy, every month we are now saving thanks to this new prices about enough to buy a dark bread. Dark breads are not dark, but they look like normal bread, it is the bread for "poor" people or rather for "social cases", that sounds not so hard. You can buy it if you come early enough out of your bed, since by 7.00 A.M. it is mostly already sold out. And you can get it of course alone at special shops. If you are buying most of your things in a small private minimarket, the chance that you come across this bread is rather low. Normal bread is not much more expensive, maybe the double, but if you have nothing that is just the difference. Yesterday evening we brought Jojo to the train. He left his car in Croatia, to be used by the Pakrac volunteers. Just before he left he gave a small good-bye party in the train station. And than you can see how soon he had build up a circle of friends in this country. It is therefor not surprising that he will come back one of these months. Also is in the spell this countries lay on you. After he left Vesna J. and I went home and met the girl who going to emigrate to Australia next week, at the end of next week I am allowed to mention her name again, until the moment that they leave I promised not to mention her name, you never know who is reading my diary. Not that it is illegal what they do, but who knows. If you are on the run, everything can be dangerous, that's sounds paranoid and maybe in normal cases that would also be paranoid, but when you are ones decided that the country you live in is not longer safe for you and your family, everything maybe dangerous. I didn't want it to be a sad meeting, without any spirit in the air, she always have gave me a lot of energy and I really will miss her. I hope that if there is somebody out there in Sidney ready this, he or she will help to connect her as soon as possible to Email. She heard about the system and want to keep up the contact with us that way. So I showed her a video composition I made about environmental pollution in Europe and the actions of EYFA (European Youth Forest Action, a network of youth and environment in East and West Europe, in which Burkie and I were active the last 7 years). Further on I told her that the music I used came partly from the aboriginals. A group of people in her new home country, who also have a very hard time. An uncle of mine who went in the early 60'ties to Australia to become a referent there for Dutch immigrants, decided that after been telling about the gospel well paid for some years that his real duty was helping the aboriginals in jail. Soon afterwards his income went down to very low level, but he went on seeing the aboriginals in jail. So I told her, maybe we loose her a good activists, but the aboriginals are getting a good one. She laughed and hopefully got the point. It don't really matter were you are, there is always a lot of things to do. If you can't work directly for these countries, a lot of other problems and people are also in danger and need help and action. This is with other words not the only "war". Nevertheless we both cry when I brought her down the stairs for the last time and said good-bye at the front door. We both know how we love these countries and how hard we want to be here and no where else. The chicken party they organised Thursday evening in the new house of the volunteers in Pakrac was a big success, the food came two hours later than planned, since somebody forgot that a chicken which you buy a fresh market in Pakrac is a little bit different from one you buy in a supermarket in the states and needs some more work. But it was a nice coming together from the Pakrac UNOV people, the Austrians and the two ArgBat UNPROFOR soldiers, who deliver food for us and people we know in the city in school that evening. They went on singing and dancing in the house till the early morning, when most of them were woken up by Jura, the owner of Skorpija (maybe Jurassic Park, indeed it is now a hit here, would be a better name), who came with his tractor to help them to move from the school to the new house. The rest of the day they spend with a "moving-party" through the town. There are not many people on this side of Pakrac who don't know that the volunteers have a new house by now. The first night in the new house was a blessing, although only one room is heated, the difference with the temperature in the school is just enough the feel yourselves in a small paradise, or rather in Utopia as one of the volunteers scratched in the wall. Hopefully the amount of sick people among the Pakrac volunteers will go down soon. Bok I Mir from Zagreb, Wam ------------------------------------------------------ Zagreb Diary can be found on a lot of different electronic networks, it is copyright free and can be ported to any network or other means of communication you like, but please drop my a line, you can reach by sending a message to wam@zamir-zg.comlink.de or wam@zamir-zg.comlink.apc.org. Zagreb Diary is dedicated to Tyche, Pjort and Rik, so that they found out what there father have been doing all that time in Zagreb. 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