Pauza Magazine Spring 2013 | Page 45

features: spring 2013

office staff: Spring 2013 edition formations and the best things about spring in Macedonia. Read on to find out what they said.

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I’ d love to transform...

the way we are using up the earth’ s natural resources and polluting the environment.

statues in Skopje into trees politicians into monks, election campaigns into TED talks, vehicles into bikes and streets into bike lanes, soap operas and reality shows into art and culture shows, negative energy into positive …
But I’ d never change...

the spirit in which people come together to solve problems.

my life, my family and friends.

The best thing about spring in Macedonia...

is the bird migration.

is the smell of linden trees on Partizanska street, the mountains, weekend picnics, sitting in the café bars outside and enjoying the perfect warm, sunny weather.
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I got nd the when d my came orld.
the furniture in my house to feel more comfortable.
myself into a bird, probably because of the freedom and the ability to fly up to the highest sky heights.
my husband and my job at Peace Corps.
absolutely never change, my gender. Not even in my most extreme dreams would I ever change what nature and my parents gave me.
is the spring sun and the smell of the flowers.
is that it is truly the most beautiful thing in the whole world. Every winter I am expecting it with impatience, because it revitalizes me, it wakes me from the cold lethargy, in some amazing way it breathes vitality and joy into me, and it makes me feel younger and more energetic.
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