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Lagom – not too little, not too much. Just right.
Have you ever thought about how much is enough for you? “Lagom”, the word, which is commonly used by Swedish people, means just right. It can be related to all human areas of living to make people’s life more harmonic and balanced. Sometimes, the word “lagom” is compared to the idiom “less is more”, which…
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A day full of foolishness
When the spring is on its way and the month turns from March to April, there comes a day when you can’t trust anyone or anything. And if you do so, you’ll end up getting laughed at. And that day is, of course, April fool’s day. The tradition of hoaxes has now spread widely but…
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Life at home of VCS family
Starting a new thread “Life at Home” in our Voices magazine, we are reaching few members of our VCS family to ask them about their thoughts and impressions. Finnish, Polish, French and Turkish living in sunny Macedonia… Summer surprised us, especially me from Finland, as I consider 20 degrees plus to be a summer already.…
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Call for writers, share your stories!
Quarantine, which we are all experiencing together worldwide, how does it look like in different countries? VOICES magazine is starting a series of articles “Life at home – quarantine all over the world”. Share your stories with us! You can write from anywhere in the world, we don’t require a professional background. We want to…
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Peace and balance – bring it back!
It’s not so easy to find peace and balance, especially nowadays, during the time of pandemic. We’re surrounded by different information shared on social media, within TV, by our friends and family, which often influence on how we feel. There are more fear and anxiety felt by everyone in our society and it’s because we…
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VOICES April 2020
We are living extraordinary times. The whole world has stopped and isolated itself and suddenly we all have a lot of time to spend with ourselves. Being apart from our loved ones is hard but at the same time this weird situation gives us an opportunity to get to stop and think our own lives,…
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Strawberry Stem
I feel strangely detached today, As if my sensations where those of someone else, describing it to me through imperfect metaphors. I eat a strawberry and want to enjoy the flavor, But just a second later, the taste has already faded away into oblivion. Remaining is just the fact, that I am sure of having…
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The longest ride
Can one explain love? Is it in the smiles we see, the laugh we hear, the blinding sparkle in someone’s eye, or maybe it is the way we touch. There is no explanation really. Are we supposed to know when it’s coming? Are we supposed to see it in the burning sunset or hear it…
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Analog is Alive
The time was Spring of 2018. The place was Sarajevo. The city where I studied for 3 years. A city full of art, Yugoslavian rock’n’roll capital city, theaters every here and there, called European Jerusalem and reportedly a place where the 1st World War was ignited by assassination of the then Austro-Hungarian heir prince. All…
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Settling in unknown territory
How do we fit in a whole new foreign environment? As a foreword, I think it is important to underline each experience is unique. There are as many possible scenarios as there are travelers. Having said that, I will happily share my own experience. The transition between the preparation of a stay abroad, and then…
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Learning English
Learning English is not a choice nowadays, it’s an obligation. You can go everywhere in the world if you know English. Besides, it’s a very important criterion for finding a job. Almost every country has English lessons in schools, but students can’t learn English with these lessons. For example, in Turkey, English lessons start from…
