by Christina Noto SIT Fall 2017 Gettysburg College Belgrade – “I am a little fighter girl. And I think that this is something that we need in the world… girls who fight,” Zoe Gudovic says. Her burgundy t-shirt mirrors the rosy glow of her cheeks as her signature smile spreads across her face. As a …
by Claire Taylor SIT Fall 2017 Occidental College BELGRADE, Milica Calija is used to people’s puzzled expressions when they learn she quit a successful marketing and communications career to bake oatmeal cookies. Her answer: “I think I was born with a different spirit.” Calija is a mother of three with short, curly, dark brown hair …
by Hoi Mun Yee SIT Spring 2017 Drake University BELGRADE, Australian Philomena O’Brien had just celebrated her 39th birthday in Budapest and was on her way to Iran when her train unexpectedly left earlier than scheduled. Stranded, with some scepticism she took the advice of a booking clerk to take the next train to Belgrade …
by Emma Woods SIT Fall 2016 College of Wooster BELGRADE, Sitting outside a bustling coffee shop, Nikoleta Kosovac looks like someone you want to be friends with. Fashionable in faded orange shoes that match her nail polish and blue tights that go with her jean jacket, Kosovac looks sophisticated, yet approachable. The outfit is tied …
by Jose Bernardo Reyes Facio SIT Fall 2016 Lake Forest College BELGRADE, As Vladimir Martinovic bikes through the streets of Belgrade, people randomly greet him like a lifelong friend. Offering tips-only bike tours is an unusual way of making a living, but one that has won him many friends among cyclists, activists and entrepreneurs all …
by Leah Willingham SIT Spring 2016 Mount Holyoke College BELGRADE, Christian Locke is used to answering the same question: what on earth is he doing in Serbia? “I get that question almost every time I meet somebody new,” Locke said, laughing on a Saturday afternoon spent in Republic Square tuning his guitar. He wears a …
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by Hayley Schultz SIT Spring 2016 Hope College BELGRADE, The room is surrounded by mirrors fogged with steam as class begins. The instructor stands at the front of the room directing his students. They interlock their fingers, place them underneath their chins and breath deeply, extending their elbows upward. Sweat drops begin to stain the floor as the …
by Nedim Filipovic SIT Fall 2015 Claremont McKenna College Belgrade, Rainbow colored socks struck out against Zeljko Maksimovic’s dark ensemble. His frequent smiles betrayed his sharp features, jet-black hair, and rough stubble. Between long drags from his cigarette and quick sips of an espresso, Zeljko recited anecdote after anecdote, apologizing for talking the night away. …
by Anna Squires SIT Fall 2015 Colorado College BELGRADE, Anita Mitic always felt like a rebel. But then, she would have to. Any 25-year-old NGO director must at some level delight in subverting expectations – and for Mitic, who runs the Belgrade branch of the Youth Initiative for Human Rights (YIHR), that subversion is both societal …
by Marija Pajkovic BELGRADE, The first time Angela Cappellino saw Belgrade, it was a drizzly, chilly autumn Sunday. She stepped off an old, rickety train, thinking back to the scary stories she heard about Serbia while she was growing up in Valledolmo, Italy. She did not know what to expect, and the last thing on …
