Helga in Kosovo

Përshëndetje nga Gjakova (Greetings from Gjakova)! I am writing my last entry from Kosovo my internship is ended yesterday. I left Gjakova yesterday and will leave Kosovo today. I will go to Albania for two weeks. We will also travel to Montenegro and perhaps Croatia which both would be new countries for me. This week has …

Hi there! I came home yesterday from Ohrid. Wau what a place! I absolutely loved it and recommend it to everyone. I stayed in the old town right next to the lake. The lake is over 4 million years old and it is about 700m above the sea level; it is up to 300m deep. …

Well hello again! My eight week in Kosovo is ending today and now I only got two more weeks here. Aaaaah! 🙂  I have only nine more work days since next Monday is a public holiday thanks to Ramadan. Last weekend I went to Albania from Friday to Monday morning. We went to Shëngjin which …

Hello and greetings from Prishtina. First of all I have to say that the flight crash that happened yesterday in Ukraine is horrible. I just don’t understand why these things have to happen, especially if it really was a guided missle that hit the plane. Also, what I don’t understand is why passenger airlines fly …

Hello! Greetings from this oven called Gjakova. It is super-hot here, so it seems like summer really started now. Yesterday my sixth week started. I’m surprised how fast the time has gone. Also, yesterday I heard that I will travel to Ohrid, Macedonia after three weeks. Can’t wait for that trip, especially since I get …

Hi, After this week I am half way through my internship in Gjakova. In this entry I decided to write about prices, traffic, food and travelling in Kosovo. My sister came here last Thursday and left this week on Monday. When she was here we rented a car and drove to Prizren, in southern Kosovo, …

Good day! I hope your Tuesday has started well. It has been rather cold here last week, but now the weather is getting warmer again. At least it has been better here than in Finland where it had been snowing last week. It was Midsummer’s Eve last Friday and usually it’s warm at that time …

Hello! Greetings from the Albanian bride (this is what many people keep calling me after they heard I have an Albanian boyfriend)! 😀 Anyhow, a new week has started. The whole weekend was quite cold and today it was raining when I came to Gjakova by bus. There was a lot of work this weekend, …

Greetings from Kosovo (Përshëndetje nga Kosova)! I decided to write a blog about my stay in Gjakova, Kosovo. It is my first blog ever so we’ll see how this goes. I have now been here for a week and yesterday my second week started. My internship is 10 weeks long. I’m working at a Women’s …