In April, just a few months after he had come to Croatia, Fred was in two minds over the question- "Should I stay or should I go?"
One part of him was getting confident again due to having a job at Berlitz and knowing that there is more to Croatia than meets the eye, which he was willing to explore.
On the flip side, his relationship with Luka was going through a bad patch. Fred felt that his lover was selfish while Luka held Fred to be too depressed and culturally shocked. It wasn't a great help for their relationship to being looked at suspiciously by Luka's relatives during a baptism because they were gay.
Talking about being gay in Croatia, it is still not something people perceive as "normal". On the contrary, many regard it as a disease which should be cured somehow. Not that there aren't sufficient gay people in Croatia, but they mostly hide their preferences due to the public being so homophobic.
I just wish for my fellow citizens to realise presently that being homosexual is a normal way of living and that they start to respect it. The younger population is already on the right path, but the older is still lagging behind. We'll see what the future holds.
Back to Fred. In the end he resolved not to buckle under the strain of living in a foreign country and give both Croatia and his love life a second chance. It still wasn't time to get itchy feet.
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