Week 1: Our Apartment

We live in the upstairs of a single family home. The downstairs and the upstairs are just alike. The owner lives downstairs, he doesn't speak English so we just say hello in Slovene that is Dober Dan. He has a wife but she goes to Germany and spends lots of time there with her daughter and grandchild.


This is a large apartment, as far as apartments go here. There are houses on both sides of us but we hardly ever see other people. It must be our schedule. Many people here do not work but the government takes care of them. So all the time you see young adults, old adults just playing, riding their bicycles, hiking, gardening, eating out, shopping, basically doing just what they want to do.

People are very skeptical of us...they always look at our badges and make no effort to smile or engage us in a conversation. Of course we couldn't understand what they had to say if they did talk to us. This is a very safe country there is very little crime.