This last Wednesday was the “graduation” of the
Serbian course on Avala for the project “Svet u Srbiji” (The world in Serbia). We
had to sing, dance and some others had to recite some personal redaction. At
the end it wasn’t as bad as I thought.
I woke up early to take a shower and then my
friend Suhejl came to my room to do the makeup and the hair. Hel told me what
to wear and everything. I can’t believe how good he is at that stuff; I really
liked how I looked.
We were in the middle of the last practice when
the guest started to arrive so, we had to stop and wait till everyone was on
their sit. I had to dance a song called “Moja čokolada” (My chocolate) and I was dying! I’m shy, and
I simply cannot go in front of people doing those things, I felt like an idiot.
Happily it ended fast.
We continued with the presentation when they
put the video of a friend who abandoned the program. It was a really sad video,
I looked at the audience and there were a lot of people crying.
At some point there was the turn of this guy
from Congo who made a hip-hop song, and he really surprised the audience. It’s
a very simple song about the life in Avala. I’ll write the lyric, because even
if it’s very simple, I find very creative to write a song in Serbian after 3
months of studying it.
Svakog dana jedemo krompir (Every day we eat
potatos)
Svakog dana idemo na Banjicu (Every day we go
to Banjica –basically it’s where civilizations starts)
Svakog dana imamo čas (Every day we have
classes)
Pola pet, mi smo umorni (4:30 we are tired)
At the end we danced kolo, which is a very
simple Serbian dance, it was very very fun, it’s basically the only thing I can
dance haha
