We are finally up and running with a speedy 56k internet connection! It is amazing how fast it seems after struggling for weeks with connection speeds around 2.4 kbs. It is not so unbearable anymore to wait for a few minutes while something uploads.
Last week Dr. Harrell of the BYU Manufacturing Department came for a short visit to evaluate our progress and give us some pointers. It ended quite well, but it was sure a rough trip for him. Poor man. First he missed his connecting flight from Paris, took another flight into Slovenia and raced to the train station to watch his train to Zagreb pulling away. He caught the next train and made it into Zagreb in just enough time to board another overnight train for Belgrade. Early the next morning we arrived on very little sleep and immediately left for Nis, a Serbian city about two hours away. If that wasn’t enough, the three of us were crammed into the back seat of an old Volkswagen Gol without AC in sweltering heat. Unfortunately, Dr. Harrell’s luck didn’t change much over the course of his trip. But yesterday we treated ourselves to a relaxing day at the most incredible national park any of us has ever seen. Hopefully his good experience there somehow outweighed the days of near successes and sleepless nights. He was such a good sport!