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Kids these days…

The promenade in Split was the site of one of the most bizarre things we have seen on this trip: the Dan Drzavnosti Little Girl Talent Show. Now, I have no idea who this Dan Drzavnosti is, or what the name of this spectacle was, but his name was plastered all over the stage. We saw a crowd gathering around a stage, and a little bored, we went to check it out.

What we saw was who we assumed was this Dan person singing that uno, dos, tres song in a super flat baritone, while extremely young girls bounced around behind him as he sang, “You know I want you…” Dan didn’t look much older than the girls themselves.

The talent show, if that is what it was, was like a train wreck. Each song got worse and worse, yet we didn’t turn away. There was a young Gwen Stefani, full of sass, singing Hollerback Girl at the top of her lungs, even though she couldn’t have been more than eight.

There was a pint-size rapper, leading his posse with hair that only could have resulted from sticking their fingers in electrical sockets through a rendition of Black Eyed Peas’ song, Tonight’s the Night.

There was a Lady Gaga, singing Bad Romance with a large hair piece and all of the drama her 8? 9? 10? (at most) self could muster.

Then it really got out of control. The next girl got up on stage. She was – maybe – 13.

When she started singing about her lovely lady lumps and do you want the junk in her trunk, I couldn’t take anymore. Doesn’t ANYONE think this is really odd? These girls are so young! Judging by the people cheering by the stage, I guess not.

As I prepared this post, I decided to find out who this Dan Drzavnosti is once and for all.  It turns out that Dan Drzavnosti is not a person, but the name of Croatia’s Statehood Day.  So apparently this was for a state holiday celebration!

4 Responses to “Kids these days…”

  1. Shawn says:

    Funny stuff.

    Just wondering if your taking the train to Poland?

  2. Amy says:

    Shawn, yes, we took the train to Poland. It was a bit of a pain. According RailEurope, there is supposed to be a train with one transfer from Eger, Hungary, so we headed to Eger to check out the town. When we got there, we tried to buy tickets but could not. We think, but are not sure due to a serious language barrier, that there was some kind of problem with that route. So we had no choice but to go back to Budapest. The day trains from Budapest to Krakow involved many, many hours and lots of transfers, so we decided to take the night train, which was direct. It left Budapest at 7:58 p.m. and got to Krakow (an hour late) at 7:30 a.m. I’ll be writing about that train ride as soon as I catch up with posts.

  3. Shawn says:

    Oh yeah a major trip, well I in September I will be going from Sarajevo -> Zagreb -> Budapest -> Brastalava and then up to Poland or travel Slovakia for a while and make my way up north. Planning on taking two weeks for the transit to Poland from Bosnia.

  4. jewels says:

    This is rather disturbing.

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