2008 is almost gone

It's the morning of the last day of the year 2008, nothing much to say, as it always happens with me i don't say much but believe me i am trying to change that.Anyway i can say that this was a good year, a lot of new experiences, first work now the studies, i have meet some nice people, made some good friends and been to interesting places. It could have been better but I'm happy with the way it went.
I just hope that the year 2009 will more and successful and hope that life will bring some good experiences and to have good health and be happy, that's all.
It's the last and many people celebrate this day(night) somehow but I have no idea what do since usually i stay home and watch TV but since here we don't have TV then who knows, maybe I'll do nothing at all hehehehe.
Two days ago me and my friends were invited for lunch be our professor, Brian Francis. We went at his house, met his wife, we talked a bit about Kosova while drinking tea, because Brian's wife has never been to Kosova and she was interested to know more about it. Lunch was delicious and i really enjoyed talking about different things. After lunch we had tea again of course in a British way by adding milk to the tea, which is a bit add but not that bad, it's how people from around here drink it. Then prof Brian wanted to show as some good places to visit, so we went to visit some places not far away from the Lancaster, we had fun for sure, but it was cold and fogy it was hard to see anything, but we enjoyed being in some places where local people go on weekends.

I wish the 2009 will be a happy year for everyone and all the best!

Dr Pepper

Recently i tried for the first time Dr Pepper (yeahhhhhh ahhhahaha) funny!
Yes well it might sound funny but to me it looks somehow like a taste hat i have tried before, like somekind of candy or something, but i like it! It's definitely a different taste from Coke and Fanta that we (Albanians) love so much. By the way no one should be 'amazed' from the fact that i haven't tasted dr pepper before because in the situation that we( most of Albanians) have lived for years did not create a favourable circumstances to travel and have the chance to try different thinks! But things change right! It is very encouraging to see Albanians and in general people form south east Europe thinking of future and leaving aside secondary things! Lot of students that are Albanians that study here in Lancaster have a very positive point of view about the world and life in general which i believe can be taken as a sign that young people from Kosova are developing a new way of thinking about everything which i believe will send Kosova towards a development and progress. But usually big changes take a lot of time to take place which is something that is happening with Kosova which for the moment is going through difficult times (politically and economically speaking), so we will see how everything goes. Please don't forget Kosova and it's people in your prayers!

The Truth

I was just reading today through some articles and discussions about the independence of Kosova. Amongst many things that i was sorry to hear was the fact that some people tend to offend other people just to discourage them from saying the truth and make them feel bad so they wont be part of those discussions anymore. I know that sometimes the truth is hard to be said out loud but as someone who believes in God i know that one should always say the truth no matter if others accept it or not. My dear friends i encourage you all to always say the truth and to not feel discouraged and offended because there will always be people who will have a different opinion about one matter, but the truth is the truth one should always say it (even if sometimes you put yourself in a difficulty by saying it). I will end this by saying that only God knows the ABSOLUTE truth and He loves those who always say the truth, He knows what we humans don't know and for sure He knows if one is being honest when he/she is stating something. Maybe peace be with you.

Gjithmon thoni te verteten, Zoti i do ata te cilet gjithmon thon te verteten. Paqja qoft mbi ju.

Visit to London

It's been a week since we ( me and my friends) visited London. I really enjoyed walking along some very good sight seeings, London is very attractive city. It's maybe funny to say but somehow it reminds me of Prishtina hahhahaha.
We were the to participate on a conference about statistics: SUF (statistics user forum) Conference 2008, the topic was : Transforming Official Statistics to Serve Society. The conference was held at The Royal Statistical Society in London.
My comment about the conference is : it was interesting!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wow, that was a good night to be in London, it was fun. It's a reall blessing to have friends such are my friends.





Watching football

Diwali

Couple days ago we went out with some friends to meet and enjoy and see how people from India celeblare their holiday called Diwali which 'signifies victory of good over the evil within an individual'. Well the party was good, lots of people wearing tradiciaonal clothes, people dancing and good music. I bet you can guess which of these people are Albanian!

Cooking

Ahhh cooking is something new to most of the students here, since one my favorite thing to eat are salads i am doing fine because it's easy to make a salad. Since everything that we try to cook is new for us we tend to make combinations without really knowing the outcome that is the way it will taste in the end. Couple of days ago we tried to cook something that in Mexico is called Burrito, it's suppose to be good, well the taste of it was nice but it might have been prepared a little bit different with the way that we cooked it compared with the way they prepare it in Mexico, good thing is that we liked it. By they way i didn't cook it, my friend Hamit took care of that masterpiece in kitchen terms.

Sleeping

I guess the library doesn't have to be to nice for people to study there, well the library here is very good, I feel very comfortable there. Well i was tired that day and somehow i fell asleep, ahhahahah and a friend of mine thought that it's a good idea to take a picture of me sleeping in the library, so later on they will be able to prove that i wasn't enough dedicated to my studies! Anyway I spend most of the awake there, not sleeping hahahah.......

Visit to Morecambe

couple days ago we visited Morecambe which a city that is not not that far away (4.4 miles south Lancaster) from Lancaster, the town that is am staying. It was nice since we are still learning the places and trying to find out more about the surroundings. Morecambe is a small city but it has a nice view to the ocean, I enjoyed being there for couple of hours.

Life in Lancaster

I was just looking outside from the window, and the first thing that meets your eyes here are endless clouds. Everything else seems to be alright. This week we started with classes, our first class was Introduction to Mathematics, both teachers were nice, but lectures were too short, and most of the time we just typed equations for the computer to solve them, which was nice to learn how Maple 11 works but there was not enough explanation's. The British teacher easy to understand but he didn't really say anything interesting and the Russian teacher was hard to understand. Anyway first week wasn't that bad, we had some sunny days, people from Lancaster told as to enjoy these sunny days because it doesn't happen very ofter to have sunny days here. I am staying at the Graduate Collage which inside the campus of Lancaster University. The city is small and very classic but beautiful in it's own way, a lot of green grass, good infrastructure, old but very preserved buildings. The place where we are staying is very good, there is not that much noise (just sometimes), we are seven in one hallway, we have separate rooms and we are shearing the kitchen. Next door is Hamit he is studying statistics as well, and it's good to have someone close that you can study together, he is Albanian, very good guy and i am glad he is here, there are other Albanians( students from Kosova) in the same building but they are staying in different floors. we haven't been able to book a place all together, because we came here a bit late and most of the rooms were already taken. Yesterday we went to play football, it was fun, it's been a long time since i have played but i enjoyed it very much, and i hope that we will be doing it more often because it was really great, we won by the way ahahahha. We can make a really good football team, some guys are very good, specially Burim he is a great player( he played professional football in Kosova, and maybe he will play for any football team here) i don't know yet but we should call the team Kosova or something like that ( sorry for not being very creative). It's 11 o'clock and it loos like everyone is sleeping, we don't have classes today, so we should spend most of the day studying, and maybe will go to the city to buy some things because in the city things are cheaper. Well that's all i can thing for now!

Se shpejti ne Angli- Soon In England

Pershendetje, shpresoj qe te gjithe keni kalu nje Ramazan te kendeshem dhe uroj qe Allahu te ua pranoj agjerimin te gjitheve qe kan agjeru.
Pas shume kohe duke mos qene i sigurt nese do te shkoj per studime, tani mund te them se te Henen do te udhetoj per Angli. Studimet do ti fillojm nga 6 tetor, dhe do te jeme ne Lancaster University per nje vite, do te jeme atje duke studiuar ne drejtimin Applies Social Statistics. Krejt kjo ne saje te burses e cila ipet nga Komisioni Evropian ne bashkepunim me Qeverine e Kosoves.


Hi to all,
Finally i can say that i will be going to England to study, i leave on Monday and i will start my studies and lectures from 6th of October. I will be staying in Lancaster, i will be there for one year studying Applied Social Statistics. I am really happy to have this apportunity to study and i am happy to have this scholarship, but i am really sad because my friends Liridon and Rizah are not coming!

Shkup- Macedonia

And yeah, one day out of the clue, a moments comes when you decide to do something that you haven't planed to happen but it just happens! So today i visited Macedonia, i went there to take TOEFL Test, the fact is that i may not need it at all but it was too late to change my mind because i had already payed so i decided to take the test and walk to town of Shkup(Skopje), and see what up there. I woke up really early because i wanted to be on time. We had to be at NOVA Internationl School at 8:30 in the morning. So me togather with Liridon went to the bus station to take the 5:30 bus, but as usually something has to happen here in this town that it seems to find it hard for enything to work out as it should, the bus driver had somekind of diagreement with bus station officials so there was no bus untill 6:00, that was not so bad, we were still hopimg to get there in time> Anyway after a 2 hour trip to Shkup, we were in the middle of the town not having an idea where that school is, we started walking towards the center and we found an Albanian taxi driver, he said that he is not sure where the school is, but since we didn't have no other option and didn't have much time we decided to go with him, i really found it hard to believe that a taxi driver doesn't keep a map with him, because we had the exact address. Well after asking many people and driving through town finally a Macedonian lady gave us directions and we found the school ,and yeah we were there in time. Ok we thought that since we are in Macedonia and in an American school, everything will go as scheduled but i didn't, we had to wait for a long time until the test began.
Ok here i was standing before thew computer 'ready' for the 4 hour long test, and i prepared for it only for one week( we took some classes from an English teacher, and it was very helpful). I was really tired, and the TOEFL Test is very intense, it keeps you under a lot of pressure, because you really need to manage your ti9me well to do well on that test. Anyway after four long hours the test was over, and me Liridon, Valmira ( a college) and Alexandra ( a Macedonian girl that we met there, she was taking TOEFL test too). We decided to walk to Mc Donald's to eat lunch, Alexandra was showing us the way to there, of course we walked down talking how the test went, until Valmira said 'please stop talking about it' hhahahaha. It wasn't impressing, food was ok, but really i couldn't even taste it because the food went down to stomach without tasting it at all, that's because i was very hungry hehehe. I must say that Alexandra was right that we should of tried some traditional food insted of going to Mc Donald's. Ok girls decided to go on their way and me and Liridon started walking in straight not really having a destination, for a moment we thought that we can find the bus station on our self, we asked many people but since we didn't speak Macedonian, only a bit of Serbian language, no one really wanted to give us directions, well an old man tried but he was way out of course, so we decided to take a taxi, we went to bus station really fast, bought tickets.At 15:30 we started our journey to come. Liridon is a very nice guy, we had such a good time talking, making jokes, but there was one thing that was very disturbing about the bus, that was the music( very bad music). In the and i have only one more thing to say, definitely ' THERE IS NO PLACE LIKE HOME' so glad to be back in Prishtina! Yeah!

Faleminderit vella

Faleminderit qe me ke thirr shpesh per kafe kete vere, kemi bisedu, i kemi kajt hallet, kemi fol fjal te burrave, kemi kalu shume mire ne Prishtine.

Faleminderit per gjithqka!

Je shok i vertete!

Xhaxhi Mark

Dr.Mark why are you pointing at me?

I haven't done anything wrong!

Tungi

Per momentin jame i zene me disa angazhime verore ti quaj dhe nuk kam kohe dhe mundesi per te shtuar me shume, mirepo se shpejti besoj do te jeme ne gjendje qe te shkruaj me shume. Ju deshiroj te gjitheve nje vere pa telashe dhe pushime te kendshme!


For all English speakers
For the moment i am busy, but i hope that soon i will have the chance to write more, and to be part of this wonderful 'virtual' world ehhehe. I wish you all wonderful vacations!

Përshëndetje-Hello

Pershendetje te gjitheve! Sot fillova hapjen e keti blogu i inspiruar nga shikimi i disa blogave to shokeve, dhe mendoj se eshte nje menyre e mire dhe e kohes per te qenë ne kontakt dhe per te ndar nje pjese se jetes sone me shoke dhe dashamire.