Grocery Shopping

One of the greatest adventures when moving abroad is going to the local store and buying food. Not just chips and soda, but food food. The kind you need to live on and not clog your arteries. I went to the store and thought I bought some milk, salt, butter and some peaches. After pouring a rather heavy creamed milk over my breakfast cereal, this would be the yogurt drink, I realized that what I actuality bought was yogurt drink, baking soda and some type of seasoned spread. The peaches, obviously, were peaches. I just had to laugh and learn from it. It happens in every country I live in.


I want to challenge you, the next time you go to the grocery store, to actually look at the packaging that your food comes in. If you couldn't read the words, how would you know what you are buying. Thankfully most products have pictures.

I have since learned that mleko means milk and voda means water. The first day I was here, I was going to buy a bottle of voda from a street vendor, but I hesitated because I thought it might be vodka. Thankfully one of the other bottle of voda said 'sparkling spring water' on it in English. For a moment, I thought Serbia was a little loose with its drinking laws.

Getting Internet in my apartment in 5-10 days. Hoping to put up pictures at that time. Stay tuned!