Blog ACTION day!

On October 15th, bloggers around the web will unite to put a single important issue on everyone’s mind - the environment. Every blogger will post about the environment in their own way and relating to their own topic. Our aim is to get everyone talking towards a better future.

Blog Action Day is about MASS participation. That means we need you! Here are 3 ways to participate:

• Post on your blog relating to the environment on Blog Action Day
• Donate your day’s earnings to an environmental charity
• Promote Blog Action Day around the web

It looks very interesting to me. I gave my contribution. What about YOU?

Turmoils in US

These days something strange is going on in the States. From one side the state has gone completely mad and from the other side the society fights back. It is interesting, that in one week three different cases have attracted my attention, but I think that I wasn't whose attention was focused. I hope so that this was across the US wide heard. Anyway, let me begin.

A court in the US has ordered a woman to pay a $222,000 for illegally file-sharing music. The jury ordered Jammie Thomas, 32, from Minnesota, to pay to offering to share 24 specific songs online - a cost of $9,250 per song. I mean WTF?!?! Poor music industry has finally won it's first court case against the almighty and very powerful pirate. Lucky them. And now finally they will eradicate this dangerous disease called piracy. READ MORE

The next one is more interesting. It comes form Vermont, one of the most liberal and progressive US state. It is the state that opposed slavery long before other states. It is the state that elected its first socialistic congressman Bernie Sanders. It was the first state to approve same-sex civil unions. Montpelier is the only state capital in the US to have no McDonald's restaurant. And now Vermont is a home to a growing movement agitating for outright secession from the United States. The modern independence movement campaigns that the United States has lost its moral authority. They argue that the "US empire" is unsustainable. I must admit that I was very pleasantly surprised to read, that finally someone has spoken out of the official Washington - CNN attitude. Especially that this "someone" is Vermont. The progressive voice of America. READ MORE

And the last one is about the Columbus Day. I mean about the growing unpopularity of the celebration of the Columbus Day. Especially this was the case in Denver, where actually protesters have disrupted the Columbus Day parade. It is interesting that Colorado was the first state, that in 1905 has officially started to celebrate this day. It seems to me, that someone is concerned about rewriting the history. READ MORE

Well, that's all folks. Public voice has once again spoken up. Is there anyone in Washington to listen a bit?

Bulgaria vol. 2

After fantastic week in Bulgaria this summer (29th July - 4th August, Active Summer Camp) , once again I had a wonderful time in Bulgaria. This time it was only 3 days, but it was really nice. Yes, you read correctly, 3 days. We should stayed there for 4 days, but unfortunately we got visa for only 3 days. Stupid bureaucracy!

OK, I won't bother you this time with the visa problems.I promise I will write only about the nice things.

This time the purpose of our journey to Bulgaria was the "International Meeting of Young Psychologists" organised by the The Association of Young Psychologists in Bulgaria. The meeting took place in the beautiful city of Blagoevgrad.

It is a nice small city, just a 3 hours drive from Skopje. Blagoevgrad has a many little narrow streets full of restaurants, coffee bars, pubs and little shops. It reminds me very much of some Greek or other Mediterranean cities. It is also amazing that the city is full of young people, due to the fact that Blagoevgrad is a university center. Anyway it was really nice walking down the streets among so many young people. When you ad to this the perfect weather conditions that we had there during our visit (it was real summer), it was love at first sight for me. Enough about the city, they say that one picture is worthy than a thousand words, therefore you should visit Blagoevgrad and see what I'm talking about.

Now little bit more about the social side of the meeting. Boy, that was something. It was really nice to meet such a nice people from so many countries. I enjoyed every single moment of our socialising. I especially enjoyed the time I've spent with the teams from Bulgaria, Croatia, Holland and Poland. I can remember that I conquered the hearts of the Bulgarian fellows with the sentence "One nation, two states", which refers to the similarity and the close relations, ties, mentality etc. between the Macedonian and Bulgarian people. It is funny, because from one side for this sentence I can get beaten up in Macedonia and from the other side I have been cheered up for the same thing in Bulgaria. Yes, it is really funny how do history & politics mixed together work out, here in the Balkans, especially in Macedonia, Bulgaria and Greece. At the end we have all laughed at each other understanding the joke and recognising the stupidity, the irony of Balkan's politics.

Here are some of the photos from our time spent together:

1. Me and the Polish girls: Karolina, Me, Monika


2. Everybody dancing the Macedonian, ooops sorry, Bulgarian traditional dance


3. Part of the Bulgarian team: Sto, Ani, fogot his name, Pepi

4. Macedonian girls studying in Bulgaria: Katica and forgot her name


5. Part of the Croatian team and a Macedonian girl: Alina, Andro, Kosta, Danela


6. Macedonian team: Slavco, Kalina, Daniela, Me


7. Me and Ceciel from Holland


8.Croatian beauty: Tena and Anica


9. Me and Ani from Bulgaria


10. Me and forgot his name and Eleonora


11. Sto and forgot his name and Alina and Ani dancing the sexy moves


12. Croatian mystic


13. Some Bulgarian girls dancing in the cage - awesome!!!


14. They were really nice: Anica and Tena


15. Finally: the last supper

Once again, I had a wonderful time with a wonderful people during those 3 days in Blagoevgrad. I visited some of the lectures, but I've visited more of the pubs and clubs. More fun, less worries. My life moto. I must admit that Bulgaria is becoming my favorite neighbouring country.

So, girls and boys, thank you for the wonderful time we have spent together. Ani, Aleksandar, Katica, Tena, Eleonora, Anica, Ceciel, Kosta, Milena, Pepi, Boris, Rose, Karolina, Monika, Andro, Alina, Sto, Martina, Sara - I love you all!!!

P.S. Sorry if I forgot someone.