Spring in Mostar

Sunshine on faces, flowers on trees, fruit in the markets, I have never lived in a place were spring does not involve huge amounts of slush and mud... and it's kinda nice :)

Burdva Montenegro

With 7 days off of school, three friends and I decided to check out Montenegro! After about a 7 hour bus ride though Bosnian mountains, along the Croatian coast, and though Montenegrin forests we arrived in Burdva at an amazing little hostel were we had our own privet room. We spent most of the time just relaxing. Catching up on sleep in the sun, or cooking good food for once (after dorm food). Also with final exams coming up in may we started to review our subjects and finish up big assignments for the end of the year. However we did get out to see the city a bit too. Burdva is on the coast of Montenegro and has beautiful beaches and is surrounded by small forested mountains. This time of year the whole city smelled like flowers and salt water (a wonderful thing to inhale while going on a morning run). Now back at school it just seems like a dream :)

The earth game

Hunger Banquet. Spanish Room. Friday evening.

As people entered they were randomly assigned “lower” “middle” or “upper class” seating. The upper class, 15% of the world’s population in our simulation, was represented by six privileged people who sat at a fancy table and were served appetizers and a nutritious-delicious curry dinner. The middle class, 25% of the population, 12 people, were served rice at plain tables. The lower class, 60%, 30 people, were forced to sit on the floor and given one pot of rice to share. After a debrief discussion, and lower class rioting, our elegant waiters transitioned the room and gave all of the lower class tables and food to eat. Meanwhile, Nikola began a World Today presentation on waste.

Next was the trash fashion show were models strutted outfits made entirely out of garbage down the runway in the Spanish room. Maida and Lusia were the primary design team. Outfits included Lusia(Belarus) in a strapless blue trash bag dress with a belt, Hilary(USA) in a second strapless, two-piece magenta and navy broken umbrella dress, Ana(BiH) in a cute flouncy dress with a top made out of fluttering receipts and an aluminum foil scrunched skirt, and Pierre(Belgium) in amour made from coffee cups, with wood sword, and a Styrofoam shield, decorated with coffee cups from the school machine, created by Maggie Bursch(USA). Kristina(BiH) wore a 50s style dress made out of newspaper, with a bent umbrella attaché, while Yenner(Turkey) walked in a newspaper shirt. Maida(BiH), an aspiring fashion designer, wore a hip 80s style trash-bag blouse with poofed sleeves, and a short skirt with coffee cup plaits. Finally, the princess of the evening, modeling a trash ball-gown, our very own Sara(USA), wore a multi-layered blue trash-bag high-waisted skirt, a semi-transparent plastic wrap strapless top, decorative plastic evening gloves, topped off with a jauntily attached hat created from a mop, newspaper, with a bubble wrap veil.

This is part of an article written by Hilary Jhonson

The next day we organized "the earth game which is another simulation of wealth and power distribution in the world. I acted as a police officer: