Stay green my friends!

Since I have been living on my own, some of my attitudes changed. I became aware of the fact, that food is not cheap, the washing machine is precious and missing mother’s food is only natural. I don’t know if it’s because Graz isn’t such a conservative little city like my hometown or that I just became an adult. But I changed my views of our environment. All of the sudden water in plastic bottles doesn’t taste as good anymore and fair-trade and ecological clothes are more appealing than the 1-Euro shirts from China. I want to change the world’s attitude towards nature and our earth. I want to leave my grandchildren a beautiful world like I know it. And I think that every human could contribute to this idea by simply starting to recycle their rubbish, stop using plastic bags and plant a tree.

The pencil as a weapon

Je suis Charlie. The sentence I like to discuss most currently. How is it possible to count so many deaths just because of some satiric religious comics which were published in a French magazine?  I am still shocked by the fact that freedom of the press would be punished by terror and fear. This act of terror didn’t only influenced artists all over the world but also Muslims. They have to encounter religious racism everyday and the assault at Charlie Hebdo made it much worse. This made me think and question our freedom and peace in Europe.

Someone really has the same weird name as me

Bijelic isn’t a last name you will usually find in Austria. But as fate willed I found my namesake in my English class. Never have I ever known someone with this special surname who wasn’t related to me in some way. So who is that girl named Magdalena Bijelic? Is she my missing cousin I have always been searching for? Unfortunately, she isn’t. Magda may not be related to me by blood, but we are by soul. Just like me she has a passion for art and the English language. Maybe all Bijelic’s have the constant urge to draw something.