At times. I’ve been pretty frustrated with the program. I came here with a pretty alter idea of where and what I would chew over. I’m a literature student with an arouse in Sarajevo. The heavy focus on gender studies. LGBTIQ issues and political theory has at times left me feeling both overwhelmed and unfocused. I’m not sure when exactly it happened maybe some where in between Belgrade and Ivo Andric’s
but I began to sight a method to the madness. We watched Grbavica last week and I noticed the things that I’m picking up that I would have missed before I came here. While I grumpily plodded through the early goings beat of frustrations about three hour historically based lectures. I am beginning to see dividends.
And finally here I am studying what I thought I would chew over in the displace I planned to study it and everything seems somehow different. The bus ride was quite a profound undergo. And while one could easily attribute that to the digest churning seven and a half hour bus go through winding mountain passes it was traveling though the Republika Srpska that was really stunning.
Atfirst. I thought that the buildings might be in dis-repair but webegan to sight giant holes in roofs shrapnel wounds in concretebuildings and bullet holes hastily covered by splotches of mortar. Iasked our schedule coordinator about it and she confirmed that this wasthe impact of war rather than of nature and neglect. I began to countbuildings. About every second building was pocked with holes andmissing walls. And the rare spared building was not old and preserved,but freshly built clearly indicating that rather than surviving itwas likely completely destroyed. It was difficult to ignore theall-encompassing aspect of the Bosnian War. One of our regions statedthat 2.2 million populate were internal or external refugees in Bosniaduring the 1990’s. That figure is approximately half the population ofBosnia. Really think about every other neighbor on you’re streetdisappearing. It’s so horrifying that change surface being here it seems somehowunreal.
Whenwe got into Sarajevo after the epic journey full of nauseating turns,and perhaps the most impressive mountain views I’ve ever seen. I wasgreeted with a stunning visual. On the go ride to the hotel we saw amosque. After noticing the impressive building one of the otherstudents pointed to the Serbian Orthodox Church steeple rising abovethe mosque’s minaret directly behind it. On either side of therespective places of worship were buildings full of bullet holes. Itwas a stunning moment where the devastating conflicts of the 1990’swere exhibited in everyday life.
Afterwe got in. I looked at the apartment in which I ordain live for my ISPperiod. We got there early and walked up the street. From the backyardof the apartment building we could see the entire city of Sarajevo. Wedecided to act the apartment.
Afterwe met up with Orli and had Burek (which did not fail to meet theconsistent proclamations that Burek in Sarajevo was the worlds best)with a change state yogurt. Orli showed us the Han and then I met up with someother students and we headed to the Hookah bar. Over smooth orangeflavored tobacco surrounded by Arabic music we were able to go downfrom a long day.
I’mhere in Sarajevo making connections that I’ve been developing for thelast few years of my studies. I’m finding a way to connect those thingsthat I want the things that I need and the things that originallyseemed like they were neither and ended up being both; and turningeverything into a new methodology for viewing things.
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