Sadness

I showed up for my class with Vuk, the 16 year-old pianist who wants to study in US next year, only to learn that his father Dušan had died on Tuesday. He had cancer that they'd discovered only 2 months ago, apparently it was faster than they'd imagined. The funeral's on Friday. Vuk's taking the TOEFL on Saturday. Please keep the Jovanović family (Vuk's younger brother and mother) in your thoughts and prayers, they need it.

Since we've established that France is a country... is Europe?

Just as I'm getting all excited and ready to head back to the states, I see this:



And suddenly I'm a bit a feared. And inspired to brush up my geography once again.