About two weeks after my computer started screwing around (late September I think), I took a trip to Tirana to see if someone at the Peace Corps office could fix it or atleast tell me where I could get it repaired. Well that whole part of the trip was a bust but I ended up having a blast anyway. I was going to be staying at Ian’s place and Kumar, a volunteer in a small town in the north, was also going to be staying with us. The two of them wanted to go to that casino that is in the bottom of the Taiwan Center in Tirana and seeing as how I had some extra money to play with I decided to join them.
The only other experiences I’ve had with casinos are one in Las Vegas and one in Freeport and based on my time at those places I had figured that I was going to be walking into a loud, tacky disaster zone. This place was anything but that. It had a fairly chill atmosphere, the music wasn’t too loud, and the drinks were pretty good considering they were free. My plan was to walk out as soon as I had lost my fifty bucks and then resign myself to eating beans for the rest of the month.
I decided to try roulette as I had never played it before and I’m in Albania to try new things right? I got up an hour and a half later having cleaned out all the blue chips and walked out with the equivalent of $200 in my pocket. Ian had won about $400 playing poker and Kumar had managed to come out $10 ahead so the three of us were pretty happy. We headed up stairs and went bowling to celebrate.
Once the game was over, we head outside to grab some ice cream and to head out into the darkness to find some of our other PC compatriots. The rest of the night was filled with loud rock music, fried chicken, and spilt beer. T’was a good night indeed.
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