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Existence in between alienation and familiarity – a piece of young Kosovo in exile
Jeta Pajaziti, 21 years from Peja, Kosovo. Living in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada. Jeta left Kosovo for studies at the age of 17 and is now joint-majoring from a Canadian university. After five years abroad, she sees Kosovo with critical but loving eyes.
New article out at New Kosova Report’s column “Young Kosovo – behind the scenes” [...]
Communication put back to basics
I cursed; it was raining, almost hailing, as I walked along the cobble-stone street in the town centre. I was tired from running bureaucracy errands for what felt like hours and the rough street tortured my tired feet. Because of the rain I wondered if my appearance was moving any closer towards the resemblance of [...]
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Ask; it shall be given you. Seek and you shall find. Knock; it shall be opened to you.
Little raindrops on a surface. We cannot see through them. We try so hard to uncover what is behind them, inbetween them, in them. A frustrated feeling keeps itself alive in an existence of uncertainty. In the shade of the night we find safety and when the sun’s first beam of light appears we can see clear. On our journey [...]
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The young music and lyrics of Kosovo
Genta Hoxha, 22 years from Prishtina, student and violist
What is it like to be a young woman from Kosovo with a heart beating for classical music? 11 years have gone by since the end of the Kosovo war and the return of classical music is here to stay.
New article out at Young Kosovo – behind [...]
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Ananas never tasted so good.
At the end of the street, at the intersection, there was a shop selling vegetables and fruit where one could easily get a kilo for 50 euro cents. The big windows were dirty from the heavy-trafficked dusty road right outside the shop. Some day one could not even see through them. I passed the shop every day on my way to work. A [...]
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…and then she smiled.
A toddler and an old, yellow couch
Every morning I used to step out my house and into the Balkan heat. I would always arrive back home the exact same time in the afternoon. I was living in a tiny side street in the middle of the city. I had a few neighbours, all of them Albanian. I had chosen [...]
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Young Kosovo – behind the scenes
Recently I decided to grasp the opportunity of writing a column for New Kosova Report, an online newspaper covering Kosovo and the Balkans. The column “Young Kosovo – behind the scenes“ was launched on March 16th 2010 and will focus first-hand on the young generation of Kosovo - written by a young European for anyone interested in learning more about the [...]
Why we need to realise that life happens right now and not when we think we are done planning for it