Tuesday 26711

first ill address lastnight at the traditional Austrian restaurant.

the food was good, the beer was awesome, and while i was seated a little too far from the judge, and his friend, i did sit next to Mladen and we had some really cool discussions, afterword we wandered around, Mladen, Miguel and myself, got a streetcart crepe and some tea to talk more about Yugoslavia stuff, it was interesting, im putting as much of it as i can into my paper, which is being written now.

today

we visited the state Parliament of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH from now on). it was all new, being that Sarajevo was a warzone for a while there, built with international monies, lots from Norway. the facility was huge and new as i said, however the clean, put-together-look of the building was in contrast with the nature of the parliament itself.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosnian_parliament

its got two houses, but both of them are way too small, there are ethnic quotas in place to "ensure" that the groups are represented properly, however this is sometimes (read oftentimes) placed above merit, such that the political leaders are in office because they support an ethnic groups ideals and victimization story, rather than how good a leader they are. anyways, ill prolly come back and edit this post, throw some more pictures up, but im tryna crank out this paper.