Biographical Essay: The Turkish Occupation Of Serbia

In the morning we ate breakfast in the basement of the hotel. It was very fancy. We had black tea, bread, homemade jam, honey, eggs, and cucumber slices. We left the hotel and drove on through the countryside, past golden grassy fields and green-brown trees, until we reached the Bulgarian border.

When we reached the Bulgarian border we stopped and waited behind a long line of other cars and vans. Bulgaria is a member of the EU and Turkey is not so it took a long time to cross the border. Finally we crossed the border, and as soon as we were on the Bulgarian side, some border guards came over to us, looked at our van, and said, "Okay, take everything out." We slowly began pulling out suitcases, boards, books, pots, pans, blankets and pillows and piling them up on the pavement. We were praying that …show more content…
In Serbia we saw a train that was tipped over on its side on a track. Serbia was mostly sunny and cool but not cold. It wasn't very windy. We drove through several villages and cities and across many very steep mountains and around tall gray rock cliffs with a few trees at the bottom. Late in the evening when the sun was setting we stopped at a hotel in Serbia. It was high on a steep mountain, and the road we drove up to it on was narrow and right next to a deep rocky cliff.

It was small and owned by a family. Their kids were running around playing in the yard. There was a fancy garden outside. They served beer at this hotel. There were goats grazing on the steep green hillside outside our hotel room window. We sat down outside at a table under a roof made of branches woven together and had a plate of french fries for dinner. The sun set and cast glowing golden light through the cracks between the branches. The lady who owned the hotel laughed at me because I was trying hard not to fall asleep. We went back to our room and Skyped with Mom, then went to bed at about