In this group of photos, you will see lots of sheep.  On Monday, October 22, Frank went to Pristina on business.  In the outskirts of town, he saw hundreds of sheep in stalls which he had never seen before.  There was a lot of activity with people around the sheep.  That same day, when I went to the university I found that there were small sheep stalls constructed all over the place where I usually catch the bus after my classes.  There must have been close to 1,000 sheep in small pens with different men tending to the sheep.   That day, I asked students at the American Corner about the sheep and found out that for Bajran (sp?) , the Eid Muslin holiday, the sheep would be sacrificed.  Each family is expected to buy a sheep or other animal.  The animal is sacrificed on Friday, the Eid holiday.  If you have an animal sacrificed, then you are cleansed from your sins.  The animal is sacrificed in a field and there is usually a butcher on hand.  The individual who bought the animal can keep 1/3 of the animal to eat but has to give the other 2/3 to the poor to eat.  Depending on a person's wealth, they might have to buy a lot of animals to be cleansed.  A person can also give money to the mosque for the sacrificed animal to be bought and distributed to the poor. 

This is normally my bus stop in Prizren.

Activity around selling the sheep.

Sheep ready for the Eid sacrifice.

My bus stop where there are usually no sheep or shepherds.

It was sad to see the sheep, especially when they were tied inside of a wheelbarrow like this.

Eid is a big holiday.  We have plans to leave for Greece today for a UN-sponsored weekend trip.  We are going to Thessaloniki.  We had planned to travel to Pristina on Friday to catch the UN bus but then found out that there would be no buses operating on Eid (Friday), so we had to scramble and pack and get to the bus on Thursday evening.  We are staying at our favorite hotel in Pristina.  Will post photos of that later.  Getting back to Eid, last week, I was told that I would not have classes on Thursday because of the holiday.  Frank and I even considered going to Greece on our own so that we could take advantage of the extra day off.  On Monday, I was informed that I would have classes.  I guess some guys in Saudi Arabia look at moon patterns and decide when Eid will be and it was decided on Monday that it would be on Friday, not Thursday.  I had my classes on Thursday, but many students did not attend.  In fact, I didn't see many profs......I guess I won't be getting an academic calendar showing all of the holidays since the religious ones are always scheduled like this.