Monday, November 12, 2007

Snow, mountains and student conference

This weekend we went on a student conference with EUS. I was helping out some with computers and stuff, and I helped making posters, nametags, etc. We went to a place called Zlatibor, which is located far west in Serbia in a area with a lot of mountains.

The camp were great, and I met a lot of nice people. Suddenly I have people I can visit in all kinds places in Serbia, Monte Negro (Crna Gora) and I have even gotten to know a great guy from Czech Republic.

We were catching the bus in Novi Beograd.

The bus ride took about four hours, but we kept on having pauses pretty often so it took some longer. But the pauses were welcome anyway.
Zlatibor is a pretty nice place and it reminds a little bit about Norway.

I'm carrying Danijel over a big puddle. As you might have red I got some nice shoes at the Chinese marked. My new jacket is also bought there.


Late Friday evening it started snowing and Saturday morning an amazing sight were waiting.The town, Zlatibor has a pretty charming town center.
The water were freezing during the night, but started melting during the day.Boiled wine (kuvano vino) is very popular here when it's cold. It reminds a little of Gløgg, they take wine and boil it with some spices. It's tasty!In Norway there usually is no berries left on the trees when the snow is starting to fall.
Not so many leaves either.A Turdus Merula (Blackbird) was enjoying a cold bath.
Another bird, which we have reason to believe is a female western Bluebird, was enjoying some time singing in a tree. (Thanks to Ørjan for helping to identify the birds, I would enjoy confirmation of the identity of this two birds. If some bird expert could give me that, please write a comment).There where a little charming lake with a path around it.The students were having a great time.
A lot of people where gathered, not all were believers.Worship was also an important part of the gathering.
Mike Gaffney, a pastor from Seattle was preaching. It was great to finally listening to a speech directly and not true translators
There was a nice cafe downtown with wireless internet. It became pretty popular.

3 comments:

Elisabeth said...

Etter aa ha lest dette innlegget og ikke minst oppdaga kjenninger paa bildene noen ganger skjoenner jeg at det er mulig aa ha hjemlengsel til et sted man egentlig ikke kommer fra:)

Anonymous said...

Utrolig masse bra bilder! Jeg har vaert litt for nervoes for aa ta med kameraet for mange steder og bare knipse. Man er litt tydelig rik her som mzungu saann i utgangspunktet:P Men jeg maa naa faa til noe snart.

-Eirik-

Anonymous said...

Good point, though sometimes it's hard to arrive to definite conclusions