Routine, School, New Home?

Hello World,

So week 3 of being in Mostar is about to come to an end so far these 3 three weeks have been amazing and so so full and busy so I’ll try to remember as much as I can and update you.

So we started the week with the interresidencial football games which were so much fun even tho we lost to Sušac. Like twice. By a lot of goals. A lot. (s.o. to our only goalscorer Marita) and we lost to Mejdan too but we scored 5 goals so it wasn’t so bad. Over all it was so much fun we chilled with music played the beautiful game of football and cheered on our teams (maybe a bit too intensely).

Speaking of football, I went with a few people to watch BiH against Belgium play in some bar in the town, we were with mostly locals all of us holding BiH flags and then Lola who is from Belgium (half Spanish) with her Belguim flag, shirt and face paint a tiny red dot among all the yellow and blue everywhere. Belgium won in the end and the whole way back Lola was trying to cover her red everything. It was really fun but sitting there surrounded by everyone concentrated on the game patiently screaming and cursing I really missed home and especially sitting on the couch with my dad watching every single football match we came across fighting and teasing each other and my mom complaining about our very passionate football watching.

So in school I'm taking English A Lang and Lit, Spanish ab intio, Biology, Global Politics, Math and Visual Arts. So far Spanish is the most fun class, we're only like 8 people in the class and our teacher Irma is amazing and I'm really trying to study all the time because I really want to at least be able to have some small talk in Spanish at the end of the two years. 

Visual Arts was probably the class I was most excited for coming here, so far it's okay but I'm struggling a bit now because I'm more of an abstract person and we're doing traditional drawing now which I'm not so good at but I'm trying and hopefully I'll improve.

Math and Biology are pretty okay for now the teachers are cool and what we're learning now I already know so I'm doing pretty well I hope it'll stay that way. (Our math teacher is Italian and he has the cutest accent ever.)

English is pretty boring for now the classroom is always hot and we don't turn on the lights for some reason and I always feel like sleeping. And Global Politics just started to get interesting and we're having really nice discussions and it's awesome to hear point of views of people from all around the world about political topics.

Our Israeli 8th year came to Mostar this week and we hung out with him a couple of times, it was really nice to hear how things changed or stayed the exact same since 8 years and he was a really amazing person we all clicked with him so well but when I was sitting there with all the Israelis I suddenly felt really lost and confused about my whole situation here and about my identity and just about everything and at that moment I really missed home and I just felt like a hug from my mom.

(from left to right, Romi, Me, Yuval our 8th year, 

Avigial and Aviv)

This post was so long but so much happens here in a day let alone a week and it really feels good to just look back and document all of this and I'm sure Malak in 5 years will really appreciate looking back on this experience and I hope maybe future generations will also benefit something from this blog.

I'm gonna finish with a couple of pictures like usual.

Love,

Malak.