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Tuesday, November 07, 2006

"Postcards"

I just remembered I had these. I made them while I was in Kosovo, but I never really sent them out. Anyways, enjoy!

 

Peace

 

People of Kosova

 


Saturday, August 05, 2006

Coming home soon

Yes. I'm still in lovely Prishtina. I decided to stay here a week longer since I can't afford London at this time. All the interns are gone now. It's just me.

I was really looking forward to coming home, but I realized today how much I'm going to miss Prishtina. I packed my suitcase, cleaned my apartment, and walked around town for a while. Three months just blew by. I know this place changes a lot from year to year, but I feel a kinship to it now - to a place I barely knew existed four months ago. It's been a great experience.

 


Sunday, July 09, 2006

Exit

These are pictures from the Exit Fest website. I swear I was there, but as you can imagine, most of my pictures are blurs of light and people.

Shaneel, Gavin and I had a great time - we laid around camp all day, and danced until dawn. All nine stages had acts from 6 at night until 8 in the morning. I'm very impressed with these organizers.  

The fortress was also the perfect site for Exit Fest... Plazas, tunnels and alleyways dominate this kilometer-long fortress. Every corner presented two or three more sound stages. Because of the way this place was built, you can have a heavy metal group, a dance stage and a Latino big band all the same plaza without their sounds interfering with one another.

Anyways, fun time. Enjoy the pictures.  

 

The massive Petrovardin Fort

exitfort 

It's 5:37 in the morning, and nobody's going home.

exitfortday 

But then, who would leave this?

exitlightstage 

exitsmallarena 

He's just really, really sleepy, Mom. 

exitgreensleeper 

Exit Camp - the other half of our experience

exitcampoverview

The beach in front of our camp - Shaneel took a couple of dips. 

exitbeach 

This is a concert. You Have to have four monks and a french maid.  

 exitmonks 

Obligatory hippie with watermelon.

exitwatermelon

Even though Shaneel waited in line for these shower, he walked away when a thunder storm started.

For all you future parents out there: make sure to teach your kids how big metal boxes and lightning don't mix. It saved Shaneel's life.

 exitshower

 I'll put up more pictures soon.

 


Thursday, July 06, 2006

Exit Fest

This weekend, we're heading off to Exit Fest in Novi Sad, Serbia [http://eng.exitfest.org]. The UK Observer declared Exit the best festival in the world! Well, how can you really beat nine stages, 150,000 people, in an Austrian fortress, on a volcano core overlooking both the city and the Danube River? We have a camp reservation next to the volcano and river too. This is going to be nuts!

[But I'll be safe, mom. Don't worry.]

[And yes, my mom reads my blog.]

 


Thursday, June 22, 2006

A Serb told me yesterday that the Serbs will definitely go to war if Kosovo was granted its independence. It didn't really hit me until my walk to work this morning. I know it's just an opinion, but I can't imagine all the people I've met, all the faces I've seen, fleeing the country again, frightened or dying.... I feel like such a girl for saying this, but it made me want to cry.



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