Lithuanian Women.

These last weeks i have been talking quiet a lot with some lithuanian women, even some men, about Lithuania culture, about how people is in this country. So, maybe the image that my mind has made of people in this country is not true... but is the one that all this lithuanians have made in it. So, for me, one curious thing in Lithuania, is that almost all of the troleybuses drivers are women... better don't talk about how they drive them, but they are women. They have explained me, that this is because troleys are easier to drive than buses, so that's why women drive troleys, and men buses... but in Spain, most of public transport, although we don't have troleys, is driven by men. At the same time, i have heard that women are more in universities, than men, so female sex, is getting into higher education in this country, than men. It looks, like in the troleys, one day this country may be driven by women, although they laugh when i tell them this idea.


"Hay que acabar con la prostitución. Porque tarde o temprano te acabaran pillando." Increible. 


This is probably because this country is as machist, or more, as Spain. There is a advert near the dorm, against prostitution in Lithuania, where you can read that we must finish with prostitution, not because is bad, not because the treatmen women receive, not because the money mafia earns... but because one day they may catch you. That's the reason why the goverment wants to erradicate prostitution, ridiculous. But, from my point of view, lithuanians are paying a big tax for their machism. For example, you must drink, if you are a man, the more you drink, the more man you are. Maybe that's why in this countries, such as Lithuania, alcoholism percentages in men scare. And from my point of view, being drunk all the time makes you a worse person. Or even if you're not drunk... being an addict, to anything, doesn't make you better. So the price for being a real man in Lithuania is really high... one man told us, that eating meat all the time and drinking beer were the two thing a real man can do... just that.

Of course, some people tells me that little by little things are changing. Lithuania is becoming an open country, and people are more friendly, at least in Vilnius. There, in the capital you can feel that Europe in etering Lithuania. Some lithuanians don't like that, some are longing that Vilnius spirit fills as soon as possible the rest of the country. In my opinion they will gain a lot if they are more like Vilnius. Just because people there are more friendly, i don't mean that they are not friendly people in Lithuania, just saying that is hard to find them.


Laura, la profa de lituano mas enrrollada del mundo, al menos eso dicen los que han conocido a otras. Y yo lo apoyo. 


But, coming back to women, almost all of women i have met are really nice. Really friendly. I have male and female teachers, and the men seem to be cold, shy... when i go to speal to them, they look as if they don't really know what to do or what to say to me. On the other hand, Laura, our Lithuanian teacher is really cool, i enjoy going to her classes, she makes you talk, and you can't feel ridiculous in her class, just because everybody speaks Lithuanian as bad as you, and she really doesn't laugh at you, but with you.


Jurgita, que con veintiseis añitos es responsable de los 50 erasmus petardos que hemos venido este cuatrimestre. 


Jurgita is the Erasmus Coordinator of the Uni. She works really hard for us, she is very responsible, and she has a sense of humour that sometimes scares me. But anyway, she has done a really hard work, so that we felt as comfortable as possible, although we make her fall in the skating ring... i think she still loves us... and that she will keep David and me in her heart forever.


Dovile, que viene a ser la lider de jovenes, y Monika, que lleva la alabanza de los jovenes, y ocasionalmente la de los Domingos. Monika es tambien mi traductora oficial. 


And, Dovile and Monika, wich are my main contacts in church, are also women!!! Although you can find in Kaunas church some nice boys, you still can feel, that is not their fault to be like they are, cold, shy, not friendly, is just the way lithuanian boys are. In the dorm, for example, all the girls smile at you and sometimes say hello, how are you?, do you have any problem? i hope you enjoy your time here, etc... Boys just look at you with angry face, and sometimes whisper a silent "hi". And almost all of the mentors, who is people that must help us in our time here in Lithuania, are women!!!

I don't know, what would happen if women in Lithuania were not as they are... probably their country would lost a lot of foreign supporters... I hope that the lithuanians that read this don't offend... but that's the image i have in my mind, taken out of what i have seen and spoken.