Meeting people

I've been meeting with a lot of different people lately. Last week Samuil introduced me to the Serbian minister of Sports and youth. I was quite surprised when she started speaking fluent Norwegian. It turned out she used to work for the Serbian Embassy in Oslo for 4 years. I also met the leader of a pretty big Serbian political party.


Friday we had a meeting with Telenor Serbia. We met with a Norwegian employee and discussed their experiences working in Serbian culture. It was very interesting and I have decided to write my first paper about leadership and organization in Serbian culture.

Me and Stine went to Novi Sad (A big city 80 km north of Belgrade) Tuesday to Wednesday. On the way there I stopped in the village Nova Pazova. A medium sized village.




Yesterday we met a guy playing handball in first league in Serbia, he was 2m and 4cm tall! He was hoping to make some contract with a Norwegian club one day.

The guy in the blue shirt is the guy we met.

This meeting took place in Novi Sad, so I got to spend one night at my friend Željko's place. It was a big house and they actually had a church inside their house! As a matter of fact I slept on a couch in the back of the church! In the morning Željko (whom attended Hald two years ago) had to get to work so I got to eat breakfast with his father. He didn't now any other language but Serbian so I got some useful practice.

During the time in Novi Sad I also got to spend some time with some students. One of them was Johanna who lives in EUSs flat in Novi Sad.

Elin, a norwegian women lives together with Johanna in EUSs flat. She showed us around in the center a little bit. And then we went for some food at Foody Fast Food restaurant. Stine on left and Elin sitting on the right.

Me at Foody. I ate a Sandwich.

I've been pretty busy lately and I think it will stay that way for a while. I have to write my paper before 13.December, and then we will go for a little journey around the Balkans (Monte Negro, Croatia, Bosnia and maybe Kosovo). We have to get abroad before three months has passed, because of visa. We will probably get back to Belgrade 24. December for the Norwegian evening in EUS. We are serving "gløgg" and doing some Norwegian traditions.

Apart from this I've using some resources to plan my big birthday party, which I will write more about after the party.