glad you are well! Good to know you are back on your feet again! Hope you are enjoying the time there (looks like you are!)
Hot here in Dallas - it will feel like 110 degrees today. I left Prague at about 65-70 degrees - this heat will take some getting used to!
Dr. Klima
My Goodness! Oh Jim! I am glad you pulled through such misery! That is so crappy! My mom read your blog and just kept shaking her head saying, "Oh, that poor, poor, thing!" I do love reading your blogs (even under such yucky circumstances), and I especially enjoyed your creative letter to H1N1. I hope you continue to recover and hope you can accomplish all things things you originally intended to accomplish during your visit. Best Wishes! Christine
about time you added something Hi Jim
Hope everything is going great for you. Hope you have had a chance to spend some time with your girlfriend.Remember to come back next Fall.
Thank you for your response. The figures from the source you provided clearly show that yes, Prizren is overwhemingly Albanian (though, to be fair, after more than a thousand years of diverse inhabitation, the utter purity of anyone's ethnicity in the region is questionable - but your point has been taken - a vast majority of Prizren's citizens identify themselves as Albanian). We both agree that Turkish remains widely spoken in the city even though the Ottomans left generations ago.
This demographic information is not really important to me, though I understand that it has unfortunately long been considered very important to people throughout the Balkan Peninsula. Perhaps with time, such attitudes will eventually soften. I only hope that last year's long overdue severing of Kosova from Serbia will contribute to greater peace and cooperation in the region. I wish for a prosperous future for all the people of Kosova, regardless of how they choose to identify themselves.
Response to tamam My knowledge of the demographs of the population of Prizren is from first hand experince of Prizren and from the fact that my family lived in Prizren. I can assure that that there are not that many Turks in Prizren they are actually a very little minority in Prizren. The reason why so many people in Prizren speak Turkish is because a the Ottomanization of Prizren during Ottoman occupation. Most of the Turkish speakers in Prizren are actually Ottomanized Albanians.
Here are the demographics of Prizren scroll to the bottom of the page. :)
http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Prizren
response to "Misinformed" It certainly is a lovely place. My experiences, during my very brief stay there, confirm that there is indeed a large presence of Turkish-speakers, many of whom identify themselves as Turks. I was able to converse not with everyone, but with nearly everyone I met there, in Turkish.
Still, I have no reason to firmly defend the source that I used, and I am not implying that you are incorrect. Where did you get your population figure from?
Misinformed "(I heard that 75% of the Prizren population is Turkish, but I'm not positive about that figure)"
Is a huge mistake. Who ever told you that information was very mistaken. Albanians make up more than 81% of the population.
I am glad you enjoyed your stay in Prizren. Its a beautiful town with a lot of touristic potential.
Oops! Hey, we ate at Oops! when we were in Sofia and my wife was starving as usual and had to have pizza. Well "Oops" it was because she was sick for a while after.
Please, Jima, do not abandon this upon your return! You will go back and then you can pick the blog up right where you left off, K? I think I'd miss it too much if it went away entirely.
Priceless! I could not even make this stuff up! It belongs in our ESL mistake book, "Germs of Eloquence."
Save these!! These are definite "germs" for keeping!
K, so I know we talk online all the time which is awesome, but I do miss reading about your adventures and misadventures as well... I'm sure I'm not the only one!
klima
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glad you are well!
Good to know you are back on your feet again! Hope you are enjoying the time there (looks like you are!) Hot here in Dallas - it will feel like 110 degrees today. I left Prague at about 65-70 degrees - this heat will take some getting used to! Dr. Klima