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Happy New Year!

Happy New Year!

I think we can say that all through January, right? People here in Albania certainly do. It is the biggest holiday of the year. Almost everyone we know spent the end of 2013 working hard to prepare for it. It’s tradition to have your home in top shape to bring…

Albanian House Hunt

Albanian House Hunt

One of my friends asked how we go about finding a house in Albania, “Does Albania have something like Craigslist?” I laugh. To find a place to live, we made a flier that detailed everything we were hoping to find in a house. Normal things like two bedrooms, a modern…

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year!

Gezuar vitin i ri! New Year is the biggest holiday in Albania. For hundreds of years, Albanian was under the Ottoman Empire and not long after they became free, they were ruled by a strict atheistic communist government. Therefore, the traditional major feast and celebration is on New Year’s Eve.…