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xin min – a dreamer

I have a Chinese name that my dear friend Lu Zhen gave me when I was in China last year. We sat in our favourite café in beautiful Kunming talking about everything and looking forward to the Korean kimchi sushi next door.. and then she made the name up for me.. and it’s perfect!

So, it’s Meng Xin Min or just Xin Min.. what it means?

xinmin

I love it..

When I went to the town Lijiang a couple of weeks later, I found this hand carved wooden hair stick in a small store. I had the artist carve my Chinese name into it.. and it was beautiful! Unfortunately I lost it some months later.. as hair-sticks have a tendency to dissapear. Today I just use regular pencils to keep my hair in place.. but I’m looking forward to go to China some time again soon, so that I can find that old man in Lijiang.. and ask him to make a hair stick with the tail of phoenix bird for me again.. and of course with my name carved into it.

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Going home..

It’s raining in Crveni Grm today..
It’s our first rainy day since the last day in Belgrade and the bus to Mitrovica!

Hopefully it means that we’re bringing the sun to Sweden.

We’re going to Split today and our flight to Copenhagen leaves at 20:30, two hours later we’re practically home. Everything is so close nowadays.

I’ve had the best of times among the nicest of people.. this family is really loveable and I hope to come back to this place again soon.

I’m looking forward to Sweden now.. I miss my mom, my dog.. my car and my new phone.. haha
And I really look forward to be studying again, international relations, one year master programme. Yay!
And a distance course in International peacekeeping at the University of Queensland in Australia. And maybe some Chinese.. and working? …haha.. ehm, I thing I might stay?! :P

But yes, getting back home will be fun.. I’m not sure about the sleeping alone part though. :(

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Sarajevo

So we spent two days in the beautiful capital of Bosnia & Hercegovina..

It was a really nice city with a strong oriental feeling and the mix of cultures made it one of the most diverse and interesting places we have visited..

We stayed at Hotel Hayat three minutes from Bascarsija which was great, their top floor has lower ceiling which makes the rooms really cheap. That gave us a really nice price in a perfect location.

We walked Sarajevo and had some kebab, then we accidently met one of Ollis friends when walking down the street and she invited us to a party later on in the evening.. we thought about going there and then to the Dara Bubamara concert.. right after eating some spinach burek and changing clothes.

What went wrong? We went back to the Hotel around seven in the evening to change and then we powernapped! haha.. and then we woke up at 3 in the morning, and got back to sleep. :)

Today we got up early and walked Sarajevo again, it’s not a big city at all so we walked all of it, got to the busstation, and went “home”. :)

So now we’re back in Crveni Grm with only two days left of this adventure..and I just got a big piece of goat cheese to bring back home!! yummmie!

Goodnight!