{"id":1840,"date":"2013-04-17T20:10:43","date_gmt":"2013-04-17T20:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/internationalschoolcommunity.com\/blog\/?p=1840"},"modified":"2014-04-21T14:28:21","modified_gmt":"2014-04-21T14:28:21","slug":"traveling-around-serbia-the-life-of-an-international-school-teacher-is-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/internationalschoolcommunity.com\/blog\/traveling-around-serbia-the-life-of-an-international-school-teacher-is-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Traveling Around: Serbia (The life of an international school teacher is good!)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Traveling Around: Serbia
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Can you relate?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 Finding out that the local phrase for a cold, snowy March is called a grandma March.
\n\u2022 Eating a local dish again that you had 6 years ago, but in a different country, and being VERY pleased!
\n\u2022 Being accosted at all the local green markets with the vendors talking to you in their local language and you just smiling as you walk by…not knowing exactly how to look or respond to them.
\n\u2022 Searching and successfully finding some original, reasonably-priced artwork to purchase.
\n\u2022 Trying out many items from a relatively new brand of food products to the country.
\n\u2022 Learning many new words in the local language and finding a favorite one (Kikiriki = Peanuts).
\n\u2022 Wandering around the city and finding many couples making out in public everywhere (not such a common sight in other countries!).
\n\u2022 Reading about a cultural norm of the country beforehand and then, after talking to many locals, finding out that it is not necessarily their “norm”.
\n\u2022 Seeing huge buildings and structures and being in awe of the time, energy and money it must have taken to create them.
\n\u2022 Hearing from a person before meeting with them that it is culturally acceptable to be up to 15 minutes late!
\n\u2022 Listening to different perspectives about the history of this region of the world; most Serbians would like to go back to being one big country again (Yugoslavia).
\n\u2022 Choosing a person at a market to finally buy some produce with, but still thinking the person was upset with you while you were at their table, and then ending up getting a free loaf of bread as a thank you gift because you purchased a lot of items from them.
\n\u2022 Walking with a local and learning that another country (Azerbaijan) purchased the whole exercise\/walking path that was along the river for the city of Novi Sad.
\n\u2022 Noticing the charm of smaller cities\/towns in a country and possibly enjoying them even more than the bigger cities. (Note to self: get out of the big cities more when traveling!).
\n\u2022 Checking out the local graffiti artists’ work on the many walls and buildings in the city.
\n\u2022 Fumbling at the many check-out counters, not being able to figure out using the local currency fast enough before the cashier takes over and just grabs the correct amount from your hands.
\n\u2022 Arriving at the local airport at a very early hour in the morning and feeling very glad that you had pre-arranged for a driver to pick you up and bring you straight to your hotel.<\/p>\n

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Currently we have 4 international schools listed in Serbia on International School Community.<\/a> Here are a few that have had comments and information submitted on their profile pages:<\/p>\n

\u2022 Britannica I.S. (Belgrade)<\/a> (11 Comments)
\n\u2022 British International School (Serbia)<\/a> (10 Comments)
\n\u2022 Chartwell International School<\/a> (3 Comments)
\n\u2022 International School of Belgrade<\/a> (26 Comments)<\/p>\n

If you are on a trip right now, away from your host country, write to us at\u00a0admin@internationalschoolcommunity.com<\/a>\u00a0with your “Can you relate?” traveling experiences.\u00a0 Tell us where you are traveling in the world, what you are seeing and how you are coping with any culture shock.\u00a0 Once your Traveling Around\u00a0experience is posted on our blog, International School Community will give\u00a06 free months of premium membership<\/strong>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Traveling Around: Serbia Can you relate? \u2022 Finding out that the local phrase for a cold, snowy March is called a grandma March. \u2022 Eating a local dish again that you had 6 years ago, but in a different country, and being VERY pleased! \u2022 Being accosted at all the local green markets with the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[50],"tags":[1640,1641,1642,457,42,30,1643,32,1469,1645,1286,58,152,1644,287,603,1214],"class_list":["post-1840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-traveling-around","tag-britannica-i-s-belgrade","tag-british-international-school-serbia","tag-chartwell-international-school","tag-comments-and-information","tag-expat-life","tag-international-school-community","tag-international-school-of-belgrade","tag-international-schools","tag-international-schools-in-myanmar","tag-international-schools-in-serbia","tag-international-teacher-life","tag-international-teachers","tag-teachers","tag-teaching-in-serbia","tag-traveling","tag-traveling-around-2","tag-traveling-experiences"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2flVT-tG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5928,"url":"https:\/\/internationalschoolcommunity.com\/blog\/traveling-around-ukraine-life-international-school-teacher-good\/","url_meta":{"origin":1840,"position":0},"title":"Traveling Around: Ukraine (The life of an international school teacher is good!)","author":"ISCommunity","date":"January 26, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Traveling Around:\u00a0Ukraine Can you relate? 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