"I am Amerikan, da?" (ABSOLUTELY HILARIOUS!) (attend, America)

[Djamila]

Khadija Ahmedovic has a new television show on NTV Hayat, an Islamic network in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The show is called "I am Amerikan, da?" and takes place in the village of Donji Vakuf, a real village in western Bosnia and Herzegovina where the show really is filmed.

Clocktower - Mosque; Donji Vakuf

The show's lead character is Klintona Islamovic (Klintona, as in Bill Clinton; Islamovic, as in Muslim). Klintona was born in Bosnia and Herzegovina but fled to the United States with her parents when she was so young that she doesn't remember anything about Bosnia.

Yes, she's obviously oddly Bosnian - because she was raised in a Bosnian household. This duality, being kind of half-Bosnian, seems to be behind most of the comedic scenes in the show.

Anyhow, Klintona moves back to Bosnia with all her American wealth and education and opens a FedEx office in Donji Vakuf (operated by horse, of course). She's coming out of charity, out of curiousity.

Khadija Ahmedovic as "Klintona Islamovic" (See what I mean about oddly Bosnian? lol)

I saw the series premiere this week. It opens with Klintona on a plane landing in Sarajevo. Once it lands, everyone starts clapping and cheering for the pilot and the flight attendants, slipping them some extra change as a tip. Klintona looks around confused, hahaha.

Some other funny scenes is when she goes into the terminal, and a hijabi (woman in a veil) tries to approach her. Klintona gets scared and starts running, and all security comes down on her for running from the ticket agent. LOL

She gets in a cab, shuts the door. Then more people pile in until she's got someone else's two kids in her lap, and she's just speechless - unaware that cabs work like buses in Bosnia, they don't leave until they're full.

She tries to get the train to Donji Vakuf. There is no train to Donji Vakuf. She tries to get a bus, the bus driver has never heard of it. She gets out a map, and he says: Oh yes! That's where the Americans dropped all that depleted uranium and gave everybody cancer! And Klintona looks scared. LOL

She gets in Donji Vakuf, and like 7,000 people are waiting for her at the bus station, all relatives - close and distant. They practically tear her apart, picking at her hair and clothes and giving her kisses and asking what is America like. Then one asks: What did you bring me? And by the time it's over, she's given away everything she came with, even her clothes.

She goes to her family's home and there's a Catholic refugee family living in it. She doesn't ask them to leave, and they assume she wouldn't. They give her the master bedroom and re-arrange the furniture, and she realizes they have no intention of leaving and goes in her room and closes the door.

She's looking out the window with this solemn music playing in the background, and then she watches outside around the town. She can see a teenage couple doing it doggy-style behind the mosque in a corner, there's an old woman in her underwear baking bread in a house across the hill. Two boys are throwing a girl in a river and laughing. And then she sees this hot, shirtless farmer boy out digging up the potatoes in the field behind his house and they make eye contact, and she smiles, and he smiles, and then this old woman comes from nowhere, hits him with her shoe, and looks like she's running for Klintona from across town. Klintona shuts her blind really fast, and then the credits roll.

LOL I can't wait for the rest!

[Scuba Pete]

This is WAY too funny. Do they have it translated into English yet?

[Ody]

I hope so, I think it sounds good