Nationality / Nacionalnost

Sometimes one gets surprised how fabulous kids are. Me and Ensar where talking with Ada about a new girl in their kindergarden. We have heard she has an exotic name and thus asked Ada if the girl is turkish or arabic. Ada looked confused at us and said: She is just a little girl.
Me and Ensar looked at each other and where so fascinated. Ada has no concept of nationalities. For her there is no “turkish or arabic girl” there is just  ” a girl”. I will do my best that it stays like that as long as possible.
This made me think of one of my favorit songs Imagine of John Lennon.

Ponekad se pravo začudim kako su djeca fantastična. Ensar i ja smo pričali sa Adom o jednoj novoj djevojčici u vrtiću. Pročitali smo da ima jedno, nama nepoznato, egzotično ime te smo je pitali ako je curica turkinja ili arapkinja. Ada nas je zbunjeno pogledala i rekla : Ona je samo djevojčica.
Ensar i ja smo se fascinirano pogledali. Ada nema nikakav koncept nacionaliteta. Za nju ne postoji turska ili arapska djevojčica. Za nju postoji samo djevojčica. Potrudiću se da tako što duže ostane.
To me podsjetilo na jednu od mojih omiljenih pjesama “Imagine” od John Lennona.

 

Dobel tobogganing / Sankanje u Dobelu

Last night the snow started falling and when Ada saw it she immediately made us promise to go tobogganing with her today if there is any snow left. So in the morning she was excited about getting ready for tobogganing. We didn’t really find a place for it so we ended up in a small village called Dobel. They had the perfect hill for tobogganing beginners.

Sinoć kad je snijeg poćeo padati i kad ga Ada vidjela odmah nas je nagovorila da sutradan (danas) odemo na sankanje ako bude snijega. Tako da ujutru kad je ustala i vidjela da je čak više snijega nego sinoć sva se uzbudila zbog sankanja. Malo nam je potrajalo dok smo našli mjesto za sankanje, čak što više smo završili u nekom malom selu Dobel. Imali su perfektno brdašce za početnike sankanja.

Flu from hell!/ Gripa iz pakla!

I am sooo fed up with the colds, stomach viruses, bronchitis, the flu from hell and on top of that pneumonia and otitis. Since Thursday I have mostly spent my time taking care of Ada. She was having high fever and hurting joints. On Sunday I felt she got better, at least the high fever was gone.
Having sleep depriviation I hoped for at least one night with some good sleep. Well, I hoped too much! In the night Ada was screaming of pain. It was freaking me out. It took me long time to find out that she has pain in the ears because she was just crying and screaming not telling me what the problem was. At least ibuprofen helped!

Then came Monday and Ensar that was supposed to go to US early in the morning was in such a bad shape (pneumonia and otitis) he had to cancel the trip and now he has to stay at home the whole week.

After having left Adrian in the kindergarten, Ada wanted to go t o a museum. (Un)fortunately, museums are closed in mondays So we strolled around and went for a delicious icecream. Tomorrow is a new day and a new beginning.

Dosta mi je prehlade, stomačnih virusa, bronhitisa, gripa iz pakla i na vrh svega upala pluća i ušiju.
Od četvrtka sam uglavnom provodila svoje vrijeme vodeći računa o Adi.
Imala je visoku temperature, groznicu i bol u zglobovima. U nedjelju mi se činila bolje pa sam se ponadala barem jednoj mirnoj noći gdje se mogu fino naspavati.
Međutim, Ada je u po noći poćela vrištati od bolova i nikako je nisam mogla smiriti da mi kaže šta je.
Nakon jedne vjećnosti sam skontala da je uši bole. Barem je ibuprofen pomogao!
Onda je došao ponedjeljak, kad je Ensar trebao letiti u Ameriku. Ali kad sam ga vidjela ujutru bio je u tako lošem stanju da je morao je otkazati put, a sad mu valja biti kod kuće cijelu sedmicu.
Nakon što je smo odvezli Adriana u vrtić, Ada je htjela da idemo u muzej. Nažalost, muzeji su zatvoreni ponedjeljkom, tako da smo malo šetale u okolini muzeja i onda smo se počastile sa predobrim sladoledom (i cappuccinom).
A za sutra vrijedi parola novi dan, novi početak.

Photo course / Kurs fotografije

One of the things on my bucketlist is to attend a photo course. I hope to capture some better pictures and learn some of the thousand settings one has on a system camera. Today, we had an excursion and tried  to learn more  about auto  focus vs manual  focus. We got a couple of tasks to fulfil and I have to admit that I found it quite difficult. When you see the pictures do you get what I was supposed to do 😀

Jedna od stvarih koju napokon mogu podvući (ne mogu je skroz skloniti, još sam u toku) na mojoj listi stvari što hoću da uradim je kurs fotografije. Prijavila sam se i jućer smo imali prvu “ekskurziju”. Cilj nam je bio uslikati dva objekta da budu  različitom dubinom. Drugi zadatak nam je bio uslikati sliku kroz neku ogradu da skontamo kako razne vrste autofokusa funkcionisu. Treći zadatak nam je bio tri objekta sa raznom dubinom slikati. To mi je najteže bilo. Četvrti  zadatak je bio kroz neki objekat slikati. kao npr. rupa za ključeve ili slično. A peti je bio uslikati nešto u pokretu. Iako je sve lako zvučalo moram priznati da je bilo teže nego što sam mislila. Izgleda ništa od karijere kao profesionalni fotograf 😛