Who do you think is the most important leader in the world? Students in two of my 11th grade classes pondered this question during an introduction to second conditionals. In the first class, this question popped a classroom’s worth of … Continue reading
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Deçan is a small town between Gjakove and Peje in western Kosov@. Towards the hills, just outside of town, one of Kosov@’s 14th century Serbian Orthodox monasteries lies in an idyllic valley. A twenty minute walk from the center of … Continue reading
On Monday, February 17th, citizens of Kosovo celebrated independence. This day marked six years since Kosovars officially declared their separation from Serbia. The phrase of the day, in the southern part of Kosovo anyway, was 6 Vjet Kosova (6 Years Kosovo). … Continue reading
Any guesses about how to pronounce ‘Shqip’? How about the meaning? Shqip: the Albanian word for ‘Albanian’. Like many Albanian words to English speakers, it appears to be an unpronounceable twist on a common enough English word. And, in fact, … Continue reading
After settling into our seats on the TGV train in Geneva, an elegant woman draped in a fashionable tapestried print set her handbag on one of the seats facing us. She bent over and dug out magazines, sudoko books, a … Continue reading
After our first journey from south to north Mitrovica, we were tempted to return often and we did several times in the month following that first encounter with the other side. On our jaunts around town, it felt freeing to … Continue reading
For more than two months we have wondered east and west along the bank of the Ibar River. We have sat on the steps of the bank gazing north, watching for a glimpse of life on the other side, for … Continue reading
