My brother had the connecting flight at Frankfurt airport and was to stay there for a couple of hours giving us the opportunity to come and meet him there. It took us 1.5h to get there and I am pretty sure that some people wouldn’t travel 1.5h to meet but for me it is important that my children meet there uncles or any other family. I believe in quantity rather than quality time with family.
Moj brat je trebao presjedati par sati u Frankfurtu tako da smo iskoristili to vrijeme da se sretnemo. Trebalo nam je 1.5h da dođemo do aerodroma i sigurna sam da neki ljudi taj put ne bi prelomili… pogotovo sa djecom. Ali isto tako vjerujem da je jako bitno djeci da vide dajđe i ostalu familiju. Vjerujem da je tu kvantitet bitniji od kvaliteta.
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Munich visit / Posjeta u Minhenu
Last week Ensar had a workshop in Munich so we decided to go to Munich altogether. I thought I will manage to visit all my friends but it was impossible. So I am sorry for the ones I didn’t manage to meet and I hope to meet you soon. I will come to Munich as soon as I can. Here are some pictures from the week.
The most funny thing is though that Adrians first tooth came. Today his second tooth came. He is getting big very fast now 🙂
Prošle sedmice je Ensar imao kurs u Minhenu tako da smo odlučili da svi zajedno odemo u Minhen. Mislila sam da ću sve prijatelje sresti međutim nije bilo moguće. Žao mi je za one što nisam mogla sresti ali se nadam da ćemo se sresti uskoro jer ću doći u Minhen što prije mognem.
Evo par slika iz Minhena.
A usput je Adrianu prvi zubić izašao dok smo bili u Minhenu. Danas mu je drugi zub probio desno. Polako mi postaje velik 🙂
Weekend in pictures / Weekend u slikama
On Saturday I got a very nice visit from my dear friend Lejla. Unfortunately, she couldn’t stay longer but I prefer to have a short visit then no visit. Ada was so excited to see Lena again so she couldn’t fall asleep until 23h. Still she was up early next morning. That I find amazing with children.
U suboti smo imali dragu posjetu od moje prijateljice Lejle. Nažalost nije mogla dugo ostati ali preferiram i kratak vizit nego nikakvu posjetu. Ada je bila tako uzbuđena što joj Lena dolazi da nije mogla zaspati prije 23h. I unatoč tome se rano sutradan probudila. To mi je baš fascinantno sa djecom 🙂
On Sunday it was really beautiful weather so we decided to take a walk in the Zoo. We met up with a couple of friends and their kids and so Ada was really enjoying having playmates. It was really a beautiful Sunday 🙂
U nedjelju je vrijeme bilo tako lijepo da smo se odlučili otići u zološki vrt ponovo. Tamo više ne idemo zbog životinja nego zato što je stvarno lijepo za prošetati.
Došli su i jedni prijatelji tako da se Ada pravo radovala na društvu. Bio nam je predivan dan 🙂
Fed up / Dosta mi je
For months now there is always someone in the family being sick. Ada is coughing for months. She hardly hears because of all the fluid behind her ears. Adrian is on antibiotics because we do not want to risk pneumonia and on top of that I had to go to the doctor because I am coughing like some old smoker. Doctor listened to my lungs and said oh you need antibiotics. So now I have to take antibiotics, Adrian is taking them and since we do not know whether Ada is just coughing or she also has a problem I have to take her too to the doctor. I am so FED UP with it.
Mjesecima je uvijek neko bolestan u familiji. Ada kašlje mjesecima. Jedva čuje jer je iza uha puno tečnosti. Adrian je na antibioticima jer ne smijemo rizikovati upalu pluća. I na to sve sinoć osjetim kako mi se stežu pluća kad dišem i odem danas kod doktora. I čuda on mi prepiše antibiotik jer mi plućno krilo pišti kao kod pušača kad dišem. I sad ja moram piti antibiotik, Adrian ih pije i ko zna ako Ada kašlje zato što mjesecima kašlje ili možda i ona mora piti antibiotik. Tako da danas opet po drugi put moram kod djećijeg doktora. Mogu reći da mi je puna kapa svega…
“Boost week” / “Pojačanje” sedmica
There is the Chinese saying “A healthy man has thousands of wishes, a sick man has just one“. I feel a little like that. Somehow we don´t manage to get healthy. For months we have been sick and last night was horror with Adrian. He could hardly breath and I had to hold him in my arms the whole night. Today, the doctor than decided to give him antibiotics to lower the risk of pneumonia. Just 5 months old he has to take antibiotics. I feel so sad about it. On the other hand I do feel grateful there are any antibiotics at all.
Since, I am also sick for ages I have decided to start a “boost”- week. I have bought Orthomol immun and drink Floradix so that hopefully I also recover. So instead of go shopping stuff I really want to, I have started the spring shopping with medicine. Arghhh…
Ima ona kineska poslovica “zdrav čovjek ima hiljadu želja a bolestan samo jednu“. Tako se nekako ja trenutno osjećam. Mi nikako da ozdravimo. Mjesecima smo bolesni i prošla noć je bila strašna sa Adrianom. Nije mogao disati tako da sam ga čitavu noć u rukama držala. Danas je doktor odlučio da mu ipak počnemo antibiotike davati da ne rizikujemo upalu pluća. Samo mu je 5 mjeseci i već mora uzimati antibiotike. Toliko mi je žao zbog toga. U drugu ruku mi je drago da uopšte imamo antibiotike.
Pošto sam I ja bolesna već mjesecima odlućila sam da uradim “pojačanje”-sedmicu gdje ću sve moguće stvari koristit da ojaćam imunski sistem. Kupila sam Orthomol Immun i floradix pa ćemo vidjeti ako čarobna formula pomogne. Tako ja, umjesto da idem u proljetni šoping i da kupujem sebi stvari koje stvarno hoću da imam poćela proljeće sa kupovinom lijekova… da poludim….
First touch / Prvi dodir
There is something magical with the spring and how all nature wakes up from the winter sleep. We went to the Karlsruhe Castle park to enjoy the 24 degrees and the beautiful day.
Here, for the first time, Adrian experienced to lay on the grass and to touch it with his small little hands. It was fun to watch his reaction. He was like a little scientist checking it all out touching, smelling, watching. He was playing with it for some 10 minutes which is an eternity in his world. He loved it 🙂
Ima nešto čarobno kad proljeće dođe i priroda se probudi iz svog zimskog sna. Otišli smo do Karlsruhe palače i uživali smo u 24 stepena i u prelijepom danu. Ovdje je po prvi put Adrian legao na i dirao travu. Bilo je zanimljivo gledati njegovu reakciju. Bio je poput malog naučnika mirisao je, dirao je i gledao je travu. Igrao se travom sigurno nekih 10 minuta što je u njegovom svijetu jedna vječnost. Pravo je uživao 🙂
Multilingualism / Višejezičnost
It is funny how languages can provide kind of a status to a person. I have for example met a lot of East European people that do not teach their children the mother tongue. They come up with some weird arguments of how a child has to learn one language properly first or they do not need it anyway because they live in Germany / Sweden. The people around us will also not say anything to it. If the situation would be that the parents speak German, English or French people would consider you an idiot not teaching your children your language.
I have also through my whole life never ever met a person being sad having been thought an additional language be it swahili or English. However, I have met a lot of people that where sad that their parents have NOT taught them their mother tongue. Some of them where really disappointed and meant that the parents should have left the choice to them whether to use or not to use the language.
My husband and I have decided to teach Ada Swedish and Bosnian. She also learns German in kindergarten. Additional to that she speaks some English also, probably from the cartoons.
It is soo amazing how fast she switches between the languages and how well she speaks all the languages. One thing though that fascinates me most is how logical she thinks and it is funny how the language would sound without the irregular verbs…cool 🙂
Interesantno je kako jedan jezik može dati vrstu statusa jednoj osobi. Npr. srela sam mnogo istočnih evropljana koji neće da nauče svoju djecu svoj maternji jezik. Za to imaju čudne argumente poput ne treba djeci taj jezik jer ionako žive u Švedskoj / Njemačkoj. Ljudi u okolini im ništa ne kažu na tome jer se radi u “pogrešnom jeziku”. Da je situacija slijedeća da roditelj priča njemački, engleski ili francuski ljudi bi te smatrali budalom što ne ućiš dijete svoj jezik. Tako da ima neka vrsta “jezične diskriminacije”. Šteta jer je to velik gubitak i za djecu i za društvo.
Isto tako nikad u životu nisam srela nekog da mu je smetalo što su ga roditelji naučili jedan dodatni jezik bio to swahili ili engleski. Ali sam ih dosta srela koji su bili razočarani što ih roditelji nisu maternji jezik naučili. Čest argument kod ove djece je da su im roditelji trebali ostaviti tu odluku da oni odluče da li će pričati svoj jezik ili ne.
Muž i ja smo odlučili da Adu učimo i švedski i bosanski. U vrtiću uči njemački. Isto je od nekud pokupila malo engleskog. Vjerovatno od crtana.
Fascinirajući je kako brzo mijenja jezike kad priča i kako svaki jezik dobro priča. Ali jedna stvar što mene najviše fascinira je logika kojom je jezik napravljen. Ada prati logiku i samim tim griješi kad treba biti nepravilni glagol, tako da ustvari čuješ kakav bi trebao jezik zaprave biti da je skroz logičan…cool 🙂
Friends visiting / Prijatelji u posjeti
Last Thursday to Sunday we got visit from our very good friends Suada and Đenan with their kids. The weather was great so we spent the whole Friday in Karlsruhe city center. We went to Schloss Karlsruhe and its beautiful botanical garden. Ada stayed at home from kindergarten to spend time with her old friends.
On Saturday we went to Strasbourg. I love it. I could stroll the streets for hours. This time we mostly ran after the kids but still the ambient was cute. One thing I will remember from this trip was the whole day fight between the children of who can stand at the standing board of the buggy. Funny how one remembers things like that.
Prošlog četvrtka smo imali dragu posjetu iz Minhena. Suada i Đenan sa djecom su došli za vikend. Vrijeme je bilo prekrasno tako da smo čitav petak u Karlsruhe gradu proveli. Išli smo do palače u gradu i u divnu botaničku baštu. Ada nije htjela ići u vrtić nego je htjela ostati kod kuće i igrati se sa svojim starim prijateljima.
U subotu smo otišli u divni grad Strasbourg. Mogla big tamo satima se šetkati po oins malim uličicama. Ovaj put smo doduše najviše trčali za djecom ali haj bilo je lijepo. Jedna stvar koja će mi ostati u sjećanju od ovog putovanja je da su se djeca čitavo vrijeme svađala/diskutovala ko će od njih stojati na dječijim kolicima. Smiješno kako neke stvari ostanu u sjećanju….
Plastic bags / Plastične kese
When I was a kid I rememeber how my mother washed the plastic bags to reuse them. I don’t know if they were expensive or if it was just the way of thinking….why throw perfectly good things.
When I see the tons of garbage my family itself produces I wonder how we can decrease these huge amount of trash. For the sake of the future of our children and because no one wants to have a dump in front of their house.
Imagine in Germany and Sweden there are around 90 milion people altogether. If every person uses just 1 plastic bag per year that means we throw 90 milion bags per year. It is literally a mountain of plastic bags.
I have until now used minimum 1-2 bags per DAY. Imagine 90 millions people using x 2 bags x 365 = 65 700 000 000 bags per year!!! Just in Sweden and Germany…
I have decided from now on to try to minimize the amount of plastic bags we use and appel you to reduce as much as possible. Even if is just one bag less per year it will be millions of bags less per year…
Sjećam se kad sam bila mala kako je moja mama prala kese i ponovo su se koristile. Ne znam ako su kese bile skupe ili je samo način razmišljanja bio drugačiji. Zašto baciti nešto što je čitavo.
Kad vidim brdo smeća koje samo moja familija proizvodi dođe mi da zaplačem. Zbog budućnost naše djece i zbog činjenice da niko neće da ima smetište pred svojim pragom hoću da barem ja koliko mogu smanjim svoju potrošnju kesa.
Do sad sam koristila najmanje 1-2 kese na dan. Zamislite 90 million ljudi koji koriste x 2 kese x 365 = 65 700 000 000 kesa godišnje!! Samo u Švedskoj i Njemačkoj…
Odlučila sam od sad da smanjim potrošnju plastičnih kesa koliko mogu i apeliram i vas da to uradite. Iako je samo jedna kesa to bude ukupno milione kesa manje….
A walk in Karlsruhe Zoo/ Šetnja kroz zološki vrt
My parents have come to visit us in Karlsruhe and ut looks like they brought us great weather. Days like these are perfect for a walk in Karlsruhe Zoo. We saw an albino kangaroo that was so cute that Ada wanted to take it home. She was very fascinated of how kangaroos are jumping around. All in all we really enjoyed the time at Zoo.
Došli su mi roditelji u posjetu u Karlsruhe a donijeli su i fantastično vrijeme. Šta ima bolje nego jedna šetnja kroz Karlsruhe zološki vrt dok sunce sija.
Vidjeli smo albino kengura koji je bio tako sladak da ga Ada htjela odmah kući ponijeti. Bila je isto fascinirana kako skakuću. Sve u svemu smo lijepo proveli vrijeme u zoološkom vrtu.