So last couple of weeks were pretty uneventful, routine is starting to kick in and days are always full especially last week when we had midterms so there was some studying but the world here doesn't stop during exam periods like back home you still have to go to your CASes and do anything else you should do, it's a bit tricky sometimes to manage time here but I'm slowly learning.
A couple weekends ago, Clemens (Austria) told us that there's a really nice bridge we could go hang out at and he took us there, it's a bridge that was a Yugoslavian project so it was started but never finished it's HUGE and the view from there is amazing, I laid down on the cold concrete ground of the bridge and just stared at the starts with Clemens playing music in the background, it was a pretty cool (literally and figuratively) evening.
That weekend we had our Halloween party, for my service CAS I have MOPS (Mostar Peer Support), so we were part of organising the party. Saturday morning from around 11am until 6pm we spent preparing everything for the party (which included me and Marita-Germany rolling a shopping cart around Mostar a few times), but in the end those hours and hours of planning paid off and the party was one of the best parties I've ever had.
(Left to right, Leman Germany, Ava Scotland,
Dor Israel, Pauline Germany, a random lady and
her daughter, Sawab Palestine.)
(Left to right, Clemens Austria, Me, Nina Denmark)
This weekend on Saturday, Nina (Denmark) asked me if I would like to hike with her and Stejpan, Vanja (BiH) and Arsalaan (Pakistan) to the famous cross that's on a mountain overlooking the whole of Mostar so I said yeah sure why not. We started our journey on a normal street going up the mountain then for some reason we decided to go off the road and on another path which was literally just going up the mountain rock by rock, it was one of the most terrifying things I've done especially when I thought about all the stories of mines planted all around BiH (sorry mom) but at the end the mountain ended and we reached the top and the view was amazing.
Peace out,
Malak.
