To continue my theme of blessings and challenges of different aspects of living here, I thought I'd include what we see around us in our village and surrounding areas.
I'll start with the positives:
Lots of people walking/biking (including older people getting their daily groceries)
Older people talking with their friends outside
Beautiful flowering fruit trees in the spring
Mothers/grandmothers pushing babies in strollers
Beautiful churches and castles
Yellow rape flower fields in the spring (canola oil is made from these)
Red poppies in the late spring (blooming now)
Fields of sunflowers in the fall
Memorials/statues that often have flowers laid by them
Kids walking, biking, riding scooters to and from different locations
Well-kept gardens and/or flower beds
The Low Tatras - we can see the start of these when we take the boys to school
And some of the negatives:
Cracked, unkempt, damaged roads and sidewalks
Drunk men walking around the village at all times of the day, hardly able to walk in a straight line
Graffiti
Young people smoking
Women wearing tights/leggings/spandex as the only thing covering their bottom half
Inappropriate signs/advertising (with boys we have to be especially watchful)
Crosses with candles and/or flowers where people were killed on or along a roadway
Rats (rare, but it happens)
Thrown trash
Run-down, empty houses that I sometimes think someone may actually be living in
People begging in parking lots or in the city (sometimes they are very "in-your-face")
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