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An open letter to drugs
Dear Drugs, It has been a while since our last exchanges. It is rather obvious that for the past decades our relationship was quite tumultuous, to say the least. I could argue for hours and hours about the intricacies, causes and effects of my current behavior towards you. Some plead that we need to, perhaps, […]
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Отворено писмо до дрогата
Драги наркотици, Помина извесно време од нашата последна размена. Прилично е очигледно дека во изминатите децении нашиот однос беше, во најмала рака, доста бурен. Можам да расправам со часови и часови за сложеноста, причините и ефектите на моето сегашно однесување кон вас. Некои се изјаснуваат дека треба, можеби, да размислиме за нашиот став. Други тврдат […]
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Загадувањето на воздухот во Македонија
Кога започнав со мојата Европска волонтерска служба во Македонија имав добри очекувања за тоа што ќе го доживеам.Мислев дека ќе бидам во земја која е прилично различна од Естонија. Бев особено возбудена за истражување на македонската култра и природа.Во текот на мојата прва недела во […]
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Air pollution in Macedonia
When I started my European Voluntary Service in Macedonia I had high hopes for what I would see and experience. I thought I will be in a country that’s rather different from Estonia. I was particularly excited about exploring Macedonian culture and nature. In my […]
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A TALE OF TWO STORIES BRIDGING GENDER INEQUALITY
If there was one issue that really broke out in the end of last year It would be called gender inequality. With in that there are many aspects like pay cap, sexism and discrimination etc. But my thought was why haven’t we still conquered this problem. I rest that thought in my head for a […]
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The soul of Skopje
What makes a good city? What traits does it need to hold to become attractive? What qualities does it need to entail to charm outsider within its walls? What is it in them that fascinates us to the point of, sometimes literally, falling in love with them? As Charles Baudelaire put it: “What strange phenomena […]
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Children laugh
Volunteer Centre Skopje made a decision to send me to Kumanovo for visiting another NGO organization “MultiKulti” for gaining new work experience with local children. I took a bus from the main station in Skopje at 08:30 and I was in Kumanavo at 09:15. Unfortunately, my phone died and I didn’t know the address of […]
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Architect with an Impressive Allure – Petar Mulichkovski
One of the most significant Macedonian architects is Petar Mulichkovski. In his long career he created in almost all architectural types. The greatest impact in his work had his PhD research he did under the greatest of them all- Frank Lloyd Wright. In one of his latest phases maestro Wright was influenced by the authentic […]
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Portrait of Stoyan Christowe
The Struggle for Equality and Human Rights for Everyone Stoyan Christowe is one of the top 5 American writers that were writing on English although English was not their mother tongue. When the president Franklin Delano Roosevelt died, on his desk was the book from this writer – “This is My Country”. Stoyan Christowe […]
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Game of Thrones…reality or fiction???
When I heard for the first time about this series, I thought that it was a virtual or PC game, the name sure sounds like it. Afterwards I realized that it is actually TV series based on novels written by George R. R. Martin, so in my case, the information regarding the “Game of Thrones” […]
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My plan “B”
When you speak with Macedonian people about Macedonia, they say: “We can go abroad for work, but after ashort time we are back to our homeland, because this place is the best in the world and our family is here”. After this conversation I start to think about foreigners, who moved to Balkans and what […]