{"id":14046,"date":"2020-09-03T15:24:27","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T15:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kathi-daniela.com\/?p=14046"},"modified":"2020-12-07T16:42:35","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T16:42:35","slug":"sarajevo-life-update-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kathi-daniela.com\/en\/auswandern-und-expatleben\/sarajevo-life-update-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarajevo Life Update #2"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"14046\" class=\"elementor elementor-14046\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"penci-section penci-disSticky penci-structure-10 elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-3e634f5 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"3e634f5\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"penci-ercol-100 penci-ercol-order-1 penci-sticky-ct    elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-917c201\" data-id=\"917c201\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3279a56 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"3279a56\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"text-align: center;\">How is life in Sarajevo, Kathi?<br \/>After living here for three months now, I thought it&#8217;s time for another life update. Here are some\u00a0questions you asked me in the last days and weeks.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"penci-section penci-disSticky penci-structure-10 elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-0e41183 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"0e41183\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"penci-ercol-100 penci-ercol-order-1 penci-sticky-ct    elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-aed7082\" data-id=\"aed7082\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8ca2765 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"8ca2765\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1536\" src=\"https:\/\/kathi-daniela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/sarajevo-life-update-3.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-14103\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kathi-daniela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/sarajevo-life-update-3.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/kathi-daniela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/sarajevo-life-update-3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kathi-daniela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/sarajevo-life-update-3-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kathi-daniela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/sarajevo-life-update-3-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kathi-daniela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/sarajevo-life-update-3-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/kathi-daniela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/sarajevo-life-update-3-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/kathi-daniela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/sarajevo-life-update-3-1170x878.jpg 1170w, https:\/\/kathi-daniela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/sarajevo-life-update-3-585x439.jpg 585w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"penci-section penci-disSticky penci-structure-10 elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-c071c3c elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"c071c3c\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"penci-ercol-100 penci-ercol-order-1 penci-sticky-ct    elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-6dc491f\" data-id=\"6dc491f\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3df4b12 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"3df4b12\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1536\" src=\"https:\/\/kathi-daniela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/sarajevo-life-update-8.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-14104\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kathi-daniela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/sarajevo-life-update-8.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/kathi-daniela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/sarajevo-life-update-8-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kathi-daniela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/sarajevo-life-update-8-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kathi-daniela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/sarajevo-life-update-8-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kathi-daniela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/sarajevo-life-update-8-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/kathi-daniela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/sarajevo-life-update-8-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/kathi-daniela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/sarajevo-life-update-8-1170x878.jpg 1170w, https:\/\/kathi-daniela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/sarajevo-life-update-8-585x439.jpg 585w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"penci-section penci-disSticky penci-structure-20 elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-802d5da elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"802d5da\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"penci-ercol-50 penci-ercol-order-1 penci-sticky-ct    elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-ffd76c9\" data-id=\"ffd76c9\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-159c6ed elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"159c6ed\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">1 || how are you right now?<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a11f709 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"a11f709\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\">If got my ups and downs.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\">The insecurity is what&#8217;s hardest for me, really. I am not a person that needs their life to be all planned out. I can go with the flow \u2013 but even I can only go with the flow so much. And right now I am not feeling very floaty, I am more stressed than excited about what might wait around the river bend.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\">I know that we are all in the same boat when it comes to planning this year, but we have been in a limbo since March and it&#8217;s really draining for my health \u2013 mentally and physically.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\">Some days I just feel so exhausted that I cannot get myself to do anything. I have personal belongings in three different cities and two different countries and I just never find anything. My visa situation in Bosnia is complicated and we haven&#8217;t even thought about the South African one. <\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\">I am not a person that complains a lot normally and I am still grateful for the time here and positive about what will come at the end of the year. But I also think that we force ourselves into <em>gratefulness<\/em> sometimes too much! <\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\">Yes, I can be grateful for my job, my husband, my life in Sarajevo and still struggle with the insecurity, the financial strains and the pandemic playing with my future. <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\">I can still be devastated and exhausted some days and happy and optimistic on other days. And that&#8217;s exactly what I am \u2013 in a constant limbo of good and bad days. And that&#8217;s okay.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3370c70 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"3370c70\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">2 || Why did you have to move and how much longer will you stay in bosnia?<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9643ca0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"9643ca0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\">My husband and I were supposed to move to Cape Town for his job (it&#8217;s also the city where we met and lived in 2016 and 2017). As visa processes always take their time, we decided to spend the summer in Sarajevo, where my husband&#8217;s family lives. We wanted to leave Munich to save some money for the move to Africa and I always wanted to stay in Bosnia for a bit of a longer period and get to know the country better. So we figured those six months would be the perfect opportunity.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\">But now, with the whole covid-situation still being very insecure and the South African borders still being closed, we will just have to stay here and wait until we will be able to move to our final destination.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b1add36 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"b1add36\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">3 || how do you spend your days \u2013&nbsp;and are there a lot of other epxats?<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f6eb7d6 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"f6eb7d6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\">Working from home actually gives me the possibility to travel around in Bosnia a bit, even during the week, and to explore a lot of places. I also work a lot from caf\u00e9s\u00a0and use it as research for the column I&#8217;m writing for Sarajevo Food Dictionary.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\">The evenings I either spend with walks around the city (camera always in hand!) or with my husband and his friends. I am really happy that they welcomed me but I sometimes miss the exchange with other expats.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\">Normally there are quite a few foreigners in Sarajevo, working for different NGOs and government organisations but due to Covid most of them have been ordered to return to their home countries so there&#8217;s actually not that many expats to hang out with here right now.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"penci-ercol-50 penci-ercol-order-2 penci-sticky-ct    elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-d03ceb3\" data-id=\"d03ceb3\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6f57ff9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"6f57ff9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">4 || What are the bosnians like?<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-685c612 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"685c612\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\">Loud! When I first came here, I couldn&#8217;t believe how loud the music in every caf\u00e9 was, how loud the people spoke, how openly they were laughing and shouting on the streets. I feel like it&#8217;s a country of extroverts and that can sometimes feel a bit overwhelming \u2013 especially when people just show up on your doorstep or you meet them in the city and then end up spending the whole day together even though you had other plans.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\">But in general, the Bosnians are very welcoming, happy and friendly. They are always up for a joke or to spend time with friends. Sometimes I have problems with people turning me away because they don&#8217;t want to speak English with me, but I think it&#8217;s more out of shyness than rudeness.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e8f2138 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"e8f2138\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">5 || what is the hardest for you to get used to?<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9a292d4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"9a292d4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-size: 14.6667px;\">I don&#8217;t like how judgmental people are here! Everything is about where you are from, what kind of job you have, what you&#8217;re family does and what your name is \u2013 and then people will just put you in a box according to these informations. <\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 14.6667px;\">It&#8217;s still very important for many people to know if someone is Croatian aka catholic, Serbian aka orthodox or Bosniak aka muslim. I don&#8217;t like how ethnicity and religion are intertwined and used to spread nationalist theories and hate by the politicians (and also by normal people) here.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 14.6667px;\">Also, there is the ongoing refugee crisis on the Bosnian-Croatian border that is just heartbreaking to read about. I&#8217;m seeing a lot of refugees here in Sarajevo every day and it pains me to know that their situation here is pretty hopeless. Partly also because they are stuck in one of the poorest countries in Europe \u2013 a country that won&#8217;t even take care of its own residents.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-72b76f8 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"72b76f8\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">6 || do you feel like Sarajevo changed you?<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-336de4a elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"336de4a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-size: 14.6667px;\">Living in a foreign country can change your perspective tremendously \u2013 if you let it happen. I like how people here don&#8217;t worry about things they can&#8217;t change. And if there&#8217;s something they can change, they have a more solution-oriented approach than thinking about why something might <em>not<\/em> work. <\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 14.6667px;\">This is definitely something I would like to do a bit more.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-85b7772 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"85b7772\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">7 || what plans do you still have for your time there?<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2377150 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"2377150\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\">We will go to Albania at the end of this week and I&#8217;m really looking forward to it. It&#8217;s not your everyday travel destination but it&#8217;s one of the few countries we can enter so we took the opportunity. <\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\">I would love to visit my friends and family in Germany and the Czech Republic but the quarantine and travel regulations make it very difficult so I actually think I will pretty much stay put for the rest of the year.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-32db408 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"32db408\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">8 || what is your favorite restaurant in the city?<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-22d9331 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"22d9331\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\">I love <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/barsarestaurantandpizzeria\/\"><strong>BarSa<\/strong><\/a>. 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