The article was submitted by LISA.
Bill wrote Fools Rush In in 2005. It’s an intense memoir of the sequence of events that led him to board an aid bus to Sarajevo, evade sniper’s bullets, and as fate would have it, help U2 broadcast Sarajevo’s struggle for survival during their Zoo TV tours. You could even say this young guy from California had a hand in stopping the war.
By Alinesarajevo
I’ve started the school year at a small school in Sarajevo after spending ten months teaching teenagers in Southeast Asia. Teaching assertive Bosnian students takes some getting used to. Typically, half my class time in Bangkok last year would be spent coaxing trembling students to speak more loudly and loosen up. Many of the Thai children were anxious about embarrassing themselves, to the detriment of their language learning.
This article was submitted by ISA BELLE, a Dutch student studying in Herzegovina.
Beggars are not only a Balkan problem; they can be found everywhere from Beijing to New York and in rich and poor countries. However, beggars are definitely in high number in the Balkan. No way you can visit Bosnia or the Balkan and not have an encounter with them. In Bosnia, there are many Romanies (or gypsies) begging on the streets. They belong to an ethnic group migrated northward long ago from Central Asia and India and ended up in Eastern Europe.
This article was submitted by ISA BELLE, a Dutch student studying in Herzegovina.
The Ottoman rule over Bosnia officially ended in 1908 when the country was annexed by the Austro-Hungarian Empire. They have left the Bosnia for over 100 years now, but their influence over Bosnian culture is hard to ignore. The famous burek was a traditional Ottoman food; Bosnians still drink a lot of Turkish coffee; 40% of the population are Muslims; folk music sounds remarkably Turkish, and most old buildings in Old quarters were built in Ottoman style.
This article is submitted by a former English teacher in Sarajevo.
I wake up at 9:30 and walk to the bakery five minutes from my door. I pay half a KM, about 25 cents, for a buhtla cokoladna – a warm roll with chocolate inside that I buy regularly but can never pronounce correctly. Returning home to eat, I watch an older episode of Oprah, which, as with all television programs in Sarajevo, is in its original language with local language subtitles. This has been a useful way to improve my vocabulary.
This article was submitted by alinesarajevo, a traveler in Bosnia.
If you are somewhat outdoorsy and planning a Balkans vacation, there is simply no excuse not to take a Green Visions (www.greenvisions.ba) trip. Green Visions, an eco-tourism agency based in Sarajevo, has been leading treks in the Bosnian mountains from May to October for over a decade now (as well as offering other types of travel, such as white-water rafting). They are well organized, decently priced, and their trained guides have a knowledge of all the mountain areas that have still not been cleared of land mines.
This article was submitted by an American teacher teaching English in Sarajevo.
I first met my student on a Monday evening. He was wearing a suit and tie, and his level was pre-intermediate. He had relatives in the US and had been to a language school there during a month-long trip. I admired this willingness for a relatively older learner with a high-status job to enroll in an elementary level language class.
This article was submitted by a former English teacher in Sarajevo.
She was an old woman, seventy-five years old, she told me, holding up seven fingers and then five. The day I moved into the flat in the building her family owned, she came up the steps the first day with some homemade sirnica, cheese pie. Every week or so she would come up the stairs slowly, bearing some kind of food. If I ever knocked on her door, she would invite me in for coffee and warm up some food for me.
PORTLAND, Oregon: A Million Movies a Minute, an independent distributor specializing in short documentaries, has announced the release of AFTER THE WAR: LIFE POST-YUGOSLAVIA. This 150-minute compilation includes films by 5 filmmakers from the former Yugoslavia, the Netherlands, Peru and the United States. These 9 films represent a broad spectrum of contemporary documentary film-making.The recent apprehension of Serbian war criminal Radovan Karadzic has brought the Bosnian war back into the international spotlight.
This article was submitted by ISA BELLE, a Dutch student studying in Herzegovina.
Bosnia-Herzegovina must certainly be the world-champion in fitting several schools under one roof. A common phenomenon in this country is the so-called ‘two schools under one roof’ which means that there are two different ethnic groups enrolling in a different school curriculum in the same building. One group usually starts early in the morning until noon, and the other begins right after until dinner time.
My name is Cindy, also rhymes with travel junkie. A friend said I was probably a gipsy in my previous life. One of my many secret missions in life is to convert you to run off every once in awhile.
