She was worried. Adjusting to the United States Boban has taken his mom shopping at City Center and Easton and to some restaurants. Some of the buildings downtown are seven or eight centuries old, Boban said. Montenegro is the prettiest of the Yugoslavian republics, Olivera said. The weather is mild year- round.
Snow is something to be seen on the mountaintops, never shoveled off the walk.
Most roads are so narrow, Boban said, when two cars meet going in opposite direction, one has to back up until it finds a spot wide enough that the other can pass. So America has taken getting used to for his mother. Especially the food, which has too much sugar for her taste. She and Boban visited a Mediterranean store, where she bought some Serbian flour. She mixed pancakes and baked them on the stove in the apartment.