orusttjejen

We start the walk by walking over a little field. In the background you can see Hotel Victory that has a small Statue of Liberty (frihetsgudinna) on top.

The big road with a lot of traffic that we need to cross. And it doesn't have any crossing so you need to make people stop. It usually goes ok though, but a little scary.

The we continue here...

Going through a tunnel which is building the first escalator (rulltrappa) of Pristina (maybe of Kosovo?)

This is the street of our Embassy, 100 meters before or something. In the end of the street is a lot of cafes and restaurants.

Here is the Swedish Embassy (and the Finnish one)! :-)

On Thursday this week me and Ella had also arranged a get-together for trainees in Pristina on the terrace of the Embassy and it was very successful! :-) Around 20 trainees turned up and we walked around talking to all of them and making new friends and getting new ideas of what to do here! After the get-together we went on with eight people to have dinner in a cool Mexican restaurant!

On Friday night we met up with some people and started off with a small art exhibition that was hard to find the way to. Directions here are generally hard because there are (almost) no street signs and the streets have changed names from normer Serbian names to now Albanian names, so it's all confused. So location here is all about naming places. Like that if we say that we live in the Arab apartments every taxi driver knows where it is but noone would know the street. After the art exhibition we decided to take some drinks at the Cuban, which has great mojitos! :-) There we also met some of the other trainees (Pristina is starting to feel like a small city where you can bump into people). We met up with another Swedish girl and her friends in a square with a lot of people on the street and ended the night with some clubbing!

Some cool girls I now know here at the Cuban! From the left Thea from Norway, Blerina from Finland, Karlijn from Holland, Venny from Finland and Ella!

Last night we went out as well. Starting off with dinner together with the two Norweigan girls, and then we were joined by an Argentinan, Italian and a girl from Czech Republic. I love being in an international atmosphere again! :-) Then we went to an Irish Pub and I had the Kosovan beer Peja. The night ended at the club Maroon which had good music, was crowded, fun and extremely smokey.

My opinion on the night life in Pristina so far is that it's way better than in most cities of this size (200 000 inhabitants). But the downside is the smoke. People are smoking everywhere and all the time. The reason I went home yesterday was that my eyes and throat were hurting from all the smoke... I've been to other countries where you can smoke inside and remember when you could in Sweden, but the way people smoke inside here is incomparable. It's just too bad. It's a lot of great places, but all the smoke takes down the spirit a little.