Day 2: (15 July) The relative tranquility of a Sunday in Prishtina

Sundays in Prishtina seem to provide the only break in pace in a city that is otherwise constantly moving . Talk for Tomorrow followed suit and planned a more tranquil day; allowing people to recover from the fatigue of 8 hour bus rides from Belgrade and/or the late night group bonding that took place at a Germia, national park rave the night before.
Nevertheless, after a late breakfast, some time of reflection and journal writing, the T4T team set out to fulfill the service component of the "Beyond Differences" project. The Red Cross provided the group with a list of empoverished families living in Prishtina and the group set out to buy, assemble, and deliver packages of essential food and household supplies to each of these families.
The experience was no feel good, self congratulatory demonstration of humanistic hubris but rather a sobering look at the aftermath of the war. The familes and individuals visited came from many backgrounds; some Albanian, some Roma and othes Serbian. Many had lost family members, jobs or a sense of security during and after the conflict and their response at seeing and interacting with a diverse group of students was overwhelmingly positive. For Kosovan Albanians and Serbians alike the realty that these visits present make it hard to sustain claims of victimhood that conform strictly to national or ethnic identities. Perhaps the most telling and moving example of this was the visitation to a elderly Serbian lady who lives alone in Prishtina, with no contact with her estranged Serbian family, and who would be too afraid to venture out in the city even if her ailing sight could permit her to do so.