♫♫♫ Music is an important part of cultural and social life of every community... it has been present everywhere trough all these years, in all occasions, in all moods, countries, territories, nationalities in one or another way...
... for me, as a person who reeeealy likes to dance, music is cool way how to integrate into new culture, discover it more and experience it... so far I did not have time and opportunity to learn Sirtaki - Zorba Dance
but I promised that to my self ... and I am gonna learn it :D
...so far I did have chance to find out something interesting...
listen the pairs of the songs below....
yeah... the music is the same, to lawyers would be important things about copyrights, to managers would be important if someone payed for that copyrights, to musicians would be important the quality, for you might be important something else... ♫♫♫
... for me as a foreigner in one moment was important the feeling, feeling of something i heard before...but now experiencing with some new people, which is really connecting tool...
...I am sure everyone experienced something similar ... try to remember moment in your life when you were singing old song with some new people and felt like you know for an ages...:)
♫♫♫ - ♪♪♪... let - the - music - play ... ♪♪♪ - ♫♫♫
November 17th is a holiday in Greece for all educational establishments.
Back in 1973, on 14th of Nov students at the Athens Polytechnic went on strike and started protesting against the military regime. As the authorities stood by, the students, calling themselves the "Free Besieged", barricaded themselves in and constructed a radio station (using laboratory equipment) that repeatedly broadcast across Athens: "Here is Polytechneion! People of Greece, the Polytechnic is the flag bearer of our struggle and your struggle, our common struggle against the dictatorship and for democracy!". Soon thousands of workers and youngsters joined them protesting inside and outside of the "Athens Polytechnic".
The Athens Polytechnic uprising ended on 17th of November. During uprising 24 civilians killed (students and also 5 year old boy) and hundreds of civilians were left injured during the events.
There for on 17th of Nov commemorative services are held and students attend school only for these, while some schools and all universities stay closed during the day. The central location for the commemoration is the campus of the Polytechnic. Students and politicians lay wreaths on a monument within the Polytechnic on which the names of Polytechnic students killed during the Greek Resistance in the 1940s are inscribed. The commemoration day ends traditionally with a demonstration that begins from the campus of the Polytechnic and ends at the United States embassy.
This year 12ooo students participated in demonstrations, in the same time they are giving honor to all people who were killed 36 years ago, but also protesting because there are still so many things they wanna change now (like decrease scholarships :D)
As a security measure, in the city was 6ooo Policeman all the way around, and yeah they were busy and forced to trow tear-gas to group of anarchistic demonstrators in order to prevent massive fights. In total few policemen were injured, and 12 people were arrested.
Pretty intensive experience for the very first day in new city.
... it is not possible without saying Good bye to your family, friend, colleagues, buddies ...
or maybe we just looking for opportunities to have some party?!?!?
However, I was leaving to Greece for 2 months and I had 3 parties... ?!?
yeah, we definitely taking every chance to have party.... :D
First one was with members of my Local Committee (AIESEC Osijek) on Thursday, also with new members and special THANKS to Jelena (Želena) for her contribution; taking one day off in her busy MCP life and traveling 300km to be there!!!! :)
Second one was big annually party for all people who were employed in last year in my company, luckily that was perfect way to say good bye to my colleagues and friends from work.
Third one was so special, and wont happen ever again and i just couldn't miss it, because it was wedding party of two of my good friends. All The Best for Ivana & Tomislav!!!! :)
ps: first dance was so fu***** fantastic! ;)
So, after all those parties, you really need to leave :P
Starting destination was bus station in Osijek, then Belgrade and then I took flight to Athens...
If you are in Belgrade?!?
... then go to train station to Internet cafe, the owner is so nice, you can eat there, surf on internet, drink turkish cafe :D, ask to switch the channel on tv
annnd, if he likes you, could get some drink for free :D :D :D
... also, very IMPORTANT, do not trust to anyone on the train station, they have so many interesting and creative actions, how to take you money or bags in so polite way that you just can not imagine... specially when you are in hurry on your way to airport and you wont have time for talk with police :S
On airport was interesting, I met an older lady who was traveling to Greece for wedding of her daughter.... yeah "Greek wedding" :D also, we saw very popular Serbian actor, Svetlana Vojković ... many of you will know more if you check this video :)
"Funny" thing is that I was so much worried about by big "heavy bag" which was ~20kg... and guess what??? I could have 32kg without any problem, also for small bag they did not check the weight... :S I could take so many home made things from Croatia, but I did not :((((
(ok, ok, rakija found place in it)
ONLY thing they do care is: "Do you have swine flu?!"
We arrived to Athens around midnight and it was nice to go outside and realized that is no cold like in Croatia :D It was even nicer view from an airplane... :)
Airport is so so so far away from the city, If you take bus from there it will take 40 minutes to come to center, including approximately speed 120km/h in the city.
Good thing about going trough Belgrade was because somehow slightly I get used to "difficult" characters, so in Serbia I repeated my Cyrillic skills and started with preparation for Greek one :)
Everything here is written in Greek and then you have Latin one version, maybe. After so many advertisement on way airport -> Athens, one was written in German, I never thought I would be so happy to read something in German, but "never say never" :D
Marta took care of me, introduced me to house holder also. On the doors of my room I found welcome message from my roommate Tatiana from Vienna, which was so sweet... she was outside and got back at 5am then woke me up to meet each other... that was not so much sweet, but still I like her ;)
