A WEEKEND WITH TAMBURAŠI Marija Karaklajic AFS weekend in Sombor lasted from November 24th till November 27th 2011. However, those four days have passed very quickly… Fun started Thursday evening when, after meeting and settling with our host families, we started to get to know Sombor in a real way – listening to tamburaši. On Friday exchange students joined their hosts in high school Veljko Petrovicenjoying the great attention they got from many the students and teachers that. We spent the afternoon having the presentation about Interkultura, and after that students got to know their hosts and newfound friends through some interesting games. Evening was, of course, reserved for going out and having great time at a typical Serbian tavern, where the students had the opportunity to enjoy great Serbian music. Saturday was reserved for getting to know the cultural side of Sombor, which had been enabled by our volunteer Teodora Littvay. We visited Županija, theatre and the museum and learned a lot of new and interesting things about Sombor, its residents, history and architecture. In the afternoon students have been solving the quiz about Sombor thereby showing their knowledge of the Serbian language and using all the infor-
mation about Sombor that they had learned during those three days. They did all of that while running through streets of Sombor… It was a great way to get warmed up on that cold November evening. After that we were interviewed by a journalist from the daily newspaper and she was delighted with the exchange student, their knowledge of the Serbian language and how much they were in love with Serbia. In the evening our hosts and friends surprised us with going to the bowling club, where we had great time, not thinking for a minute about the cold outside or the fact that ‘’goodbye’’ was approaching so fast… Sunday morning was a bit sad because we had to say goodbye
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to our friends. Those four days weren’t nearly enough and all of us wanted to stay a few days longe. We are so grateful to all of our host families for taking us in, they were great and took care of us like of their own. We’re looking forward to seeing our lovely hosts and all amazing people we’d met there!