I have adopted a good friend's philosophy on language learning while traveling. Learn how to say hello, goodbye, please, thank you, and cheers in as many languages as possible and you will do just fine. So the title of this post is "cheers" in Lithunanian, taught to me by the conductor of Machunas (aka Cactus) shortly before his forceful clink shattered my mug showering us all with wheat beer and lemon.

I have only very limited time to blog as the premiere is in about an hour. I must say that from what I've heard at the rehearsals, I think it is going to be a major event. It takes place in 4 different rooms, in four different colors in the Contemporary Art Center in Vilnius. The audience moves around the space with their chairs and apparently there will be food served during the performance. But more on Machunas once I have seen it.

Speaking of food, I must say that I have become a blini maniac, trying them in all of their forms and modulations--apples, chicken, cheese, potatoes, pork, with a healthy dose of sour cream on the side. And the beer is fabulous.

Tomorrow AssRay and I leave for the beach, a small town called Juodkrante located on the Neringa peninsula that just into the Baltic Sea and forms a lagoon between it and the mainland. Lithuania shares the peninsula with the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad, which we will nopt be visiting because it is a bitch to get a visa.

Until we meet again... viso gero!