Together in Kicevo

This year, my school participated in an international project. 14 students from our school went to Macedonia. Our project’s name is „Togehter we choose and create our future“. Besides our school from Pirot, Serbia and school from Kicevo, Macedonia, children from Croatia, participated as well.

Departure was in front of our school on 18th of October. We travelled by bus. After 7 hours of travelling we arrived at Kicevo. Each of us found his friend from Kicevo, where we were supposed to sleep. My friend’s name was Filip Naumovski. He is great. He has an older brother named Andrej. Filip goes to primary school „Kuzman Josifovski Pitu“, and he is an excellent student.

Hosts from Macedonia prepared a ceremony of their school to welcome us and Croats. There were a lot of dancing, singing, socializing.... After the welcome, we tried some traditional Macedonian food, and we also ate a special prepared food on barbeque.  After the dinner I went to Filip’s home, and we played some computer games. Later we went to the party. There was a lot of music and juices, but me and my friends from Pirot did not play. Filip and me were bored, so we went home at around half past ten.

The next day we had a workshop called „Icebreaker“. After that we had another workshop on how to use cameras and fotocameras.  We had a job to create a cover page about fashion. That was funny, because in our team were only boys, and we named our cover page „ULTRA FASHION“. Then we had a break. After the break we had another workshop, about interview journalist. We had a job to describe the characteristics of Arnold Scwarzeneger. One of jounalist called Vlatko, told us something about editing and playback. After these workshops we had a break for lunch. Then went on a trip to Ohrid. I have never been  to Ohrid. First, we went to National workshop for making paper. We saw a Guttenberg printing machine there. Then we visited the city center. We saw a lot of interesting mosaics and a lots of beautiful constructions. We saw Platisnik, Samoil’s fortress, and St. Kaneo’s church. We back to host’s home about 9 p.m.  The next day we went on an excursion to the capital city of Macedonia, Skopje. We first visited the Macedonian Radio Television. We saw a lot of space and cameras and we also met some journalists and reporters. They were all friendly and described us how the TV station works. After  visiting the Macedonian Radio Television, we got the lunch packet. After the lunch break, we went to visit Skopje. Skopje is a very beautifull city, full of monuments, tall buildings, shopping centers... The mot beautifull  monument and fountain to me is statue of Alexander the Great (Macedonian)

After touring the city, we went to a big shopping centre. First we visited Mc Donalds. After that our teacher invited us to watch 7D movies. That was fantastic. We watched a film about snakes , mouses and mosquitos. After 7D movies we went to a game room. Aleksa and me played billiar vs Filip and Alksa’s friend Kristijan. We defeated them. About 16 o’clock we went to Filip’s home in Kicevo. We rested a bit and we played a few games on the computer.  We had a special dinner in hotel Kicevo. The next day, Sunday, was the last day of socializing. We had one workshop about „Creating meduim message“.  Hosts from Macedonia, gave us a red T-shirt, labeled „Kicevo Macedonia“ and a yellow folder with notepad and pen. About 9 a.m. we went home in Pirot. All were sad and crying, but I didn’t know why, because we will see in February in Pirot. The waiter took a lot of picture of us together with big letters „A C E S“.

That was an amazing experience. I hope that children from Macedonia and Croatia will visit Pirot, and I hope we'll have great time again. 

Luka Velkov, Serbia