Croatia Blog: Luna Rebrovic
Jun 5, 2008 | Women's Volleyball
June 4, 2008
So many breakfasts, lunches, and dinners; so many discussions on food, and comments on morning eggs...Approximately one thousand and two hundred hours, or fifty days, I spend sleeping over my five-month semester at Tulane. I'll bet you a $100 that I spend some 150 hours (60 minutes - one hour per day) over those five months talking about food! 6.25 days! Imagine talking about food for six days! Kinda pathetic, isn't it? I know, but that's my reality.
I love to eat, I love to eat delicious food, and my arrival to the US brought some concerns into my life concerning one thing I truly enjoy - food.
That probably won't be fair, but I will not go into details explaining why that is so. Instead I will just use my introduction `facts' to tell you what Tulane volleyball team did today in Zagreb.
Cevapi (ts'va:pi) and kaymak (Croatan- `kajmak') were the highlights of the day: a 2.7 inches long, rolled piece of grilled beef meat and a creamy dairy product similar to whipped cream. Served on a plate with lepinja or somun flatbread, they made the fourth of June a happy day for couple of Tulane team members. And while the rest of team was enjoying pizzas and pastas on the other side of town, I was thinking how important it was for me, a local here in Zagreb, to have my teammates try this dish.
I guess a part of me wanted them to have good impression about the food, so that they would put up with my hour-long daily speeches back in New Orleans from August to December. Then again, I thought, I want them to try what I enjoy, just like I was able to try what they enjoy the most back in the States, which would (after a along formula of consequences) lead to our better understanding each other, off and on court. Didn't sound that deep, did it? Well, it sounded clear to me at the time.
After lunch, the whole team met up downtown and hit the stores. In spite the weather we had a chance to make use of the day-off and do some shopping for ourselves, but also for families back home. After a short sight-seeing interrupted by a storm, we got back to what we do best...hehe, not volleyball (at least, not on a day off), but to eating, of course! Some had Chinese food, some a birthday cake! But do not worry, in the end of the day everyone was happy - the latter group got some of the cake too!
-Luna
