Genti

This is Genti. Anna and I met him at our lodging place last night. In Albania the gas stations are owned by a family and in many cases there is also a bar and a hotel with the gas station. We decided to try out one of these hotel/gas station/bar places in Saver, Albania. We got a beautiful room for 30€ that had a bathtub and free wifi! We cooked our dinner in the parking lot of the hotel and it is there that we met Genti, the gas station attendant.


Genti is a 29 year old Albanian ex-soldier. He learned how to speak english in merely 100 days while working with American soldiers in Tirane. His english was nearly perfect which left Anna and I quite impressed. He is also ranked second in Albania for his weight class in boxing and he runs 10 km a day in the hills. Cool!

Genti helped us understand some Albanian culture and he answered all of our random questions. We all had 2 hours of stimulating conversation at the gas station bar while he worked his 7 pm to 7 am shift. Then around 11 Anna and I got tired and decided to get out money's worth with respect to our hotel room and fell straight to sleep.

Genti is one of the coolest people I have met on this trip and I promised to send him some books so he can keep up on his English. He also is a big fan of animals.

- Posted from somewhere with my iPod!