Yes, Serbs use social media & speak foreign languages. Watch Andrea, a 25 year-old graduate in Tourism Management, video. She is a Serb, she lives in Serbia, and Andrea, like most of Serbs, use Facebook, Twitter… And Andrea (again like most of Serbs) speaks several languages:
Stevan Perovic made recently a presentation about Serbia at Holcomb Elementary School in Fayetteville, Arkansas, United States. He decided to teach four hundred (yes, 400) American kids how to say Good Morning in Serbian (Dobro jutro) and Hi in Serbian (Zdravo). Great! Here’s a short excerpt of Stevan Perovic’s blog post, but it’s well worth reading the whole thing. A great initiative:
This project is fascinating to me! In Serbia, we have a stereotype that Americans are very close-minded, but projects like these prove otherwise. The teachers at Northwest Arkansas schools work hard to educate these kids, so that they would not be ignorant when they grow up. The teachers are really trying to make these kids culturally sensitive, and I think they are doing a great job with that! Serbia may be a small country, but last week, more than 400 kids learned basic things about it. Hopefully, in 10 to 15 years, when they meet an exchange student from Serbia, they will not assume that we said Siberia instead of Serbia and that we speak Russian, which happens a lot to me.
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Sunny, and warm… It’s spring here in Serbia. 27°C (80.6 degrees Fahrenheit) today. Ah, after a busy week, I’m finally swimming home!
Well, take a look at at the temperature forecast through the week in Belgrade.
It’s spring here in Belgrade, and all over the country (Negotin 27°C, Niš 28°C, Novi Sad 29°C, Kragujevac 29°C, Priština 27°C, today). Hey, tourists from all over the world, it’s time to visit Serbia!
German discounter Lidl is planning to open a store in Subotica (a beautiful city in northern Serbia). Subotica’s municipality wrote on its website today that the 2,000 square meter supermarket will be integrated within a local retail park. Okay. I’m glad German companies are investing in Serbia. That said, I don’t think we need more supermarkets in Serbia. I’ll always prefer going to my open air market (Zeleni venac, Belgrade), to get some fresh and good Serbian products, rather than in a supermarket owned by Germans, Italians, or Serbs. Supermarkets will “kill” small local (read Serbian) farmers. I don’t want that. So, my point is that it’s not a really good news that German discounter Lidl is coming to Serbian town of Subotica. Again, I’m not saying I don’t want foreign companies to invest in Serbia. I’m just saying that we (Serbian people) don’t need discounter entering Serbian market to “kill” Serbian producers and farmers.
My first video (I’m A Serb, And I’m Proud To Be A Serb) I uploaded to Youtube was Retweetwed 4 times and “liked” by 309 people. Not so bad! Youtube let me know (great) in which country this video is most popular in. And guess what, Serbia’s Ambassador to the World is popular in the whole world:
In less than two weeks, Serbia will head to the polls to elect a president and a parliament. If you don’t know anything about Serbian political scene, it’s worth reading Nebojsa Malic’s blog post over at Gray Falcon. It’s well written, and funny (Liked+ the therm he used for Čedomir Jovanović “Lunatic fringe”). Read An April 2012 guide to Serbian Politics by Nebojsa Malic.
A romanian guy was recently in Belgrade. It looks like he likes Belgrade. He uploaded to Youtube four (yes 4) videos of Belgrade. Below are two videos he put on Youtube. You can also watch the two others on Youtube. “Inside the Saint Sava Temple (Belgrade)” and “Belgrade city center.” Yes, Belgrade is an amazing city!
Christopher Savic supports my website by donating $100.00 CAD, and he writes to me saying:
I am a Canadian of Serbian descent, and I became aware of your work while I was getting ready to visit Serbia and my family there for the first time last September. What you are doing is not only good for Serbia but for the whole world. Stay positive and keep going.
That’s a great message. Thank you Christopher. I always stay positive, and I love my job.
Flowers blooming at Trg Republike Square, the central town square of Belgrade, this afternoon:
