We're Back, Part II

We're back in Lithuania. It's good and interesting to be here. I've never gone back to the same (foreign) place before, so it's curious to arrive somewhere and know a bit about what you're doing--how to get to the university, a little place to eat, the location of important points, etc.

Here, for instance, Peter is eating beet salad at Gero Appetito, a favorite from last summer.

He has eaten a wide variety of new things, and takes almost all of them quite happily.

That is Edita, the owner of Gero. She was very sweet with Peter, as women have been.

The kitchen staff took him right out of my hands.

People have been interested--some stare, many women stop to fawn. Our bus driver from Vilnius, Piotr--Peter, was very sweet to our Peter. He and Sandy even had a very stilted conversation in Russian during dinner. Later, he asked one of the Lithuanian-Americans how we came to have a black child. We haven't yet encountered anything that we can discern as hosility, but the four Senegalese LCC-IU students apparently have. So far, Peter is a magnet drawing many and various to us.

Okay, it's late (11 PM, though still light enough to be out), so more tomorrow.