Would like to be friends with some. :-)

Isn't BranjoHello from Serbia?

why serbians?

Planning to leave Germany to go there next year. Probably to the White Fortress.

cool

There's a nice guy on Steam that teaches grade school - pm me your Steam account and I'll connect you guys - he's majorly cool and buys games for his students ;-)

White Fortress?

I know IronStar is from Serbia.

At this moment I would not recommend you to go to Serbia. There are epidemics starting to show after catastrophic floods there. I know there was no news coverage about this outside of the former Yugoslav countries. The talk now is about 1.000 year flood not hundred year flood anymore. The Countries that helped in rescue efforts I know off are: Russia, Bolgaria, Belarus, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, Slovenia and others. Unfornately almost no help from Western Europe which is not good.

If you can, send help over Red Cross or Caritas in form of shoes, clothes, dippers, food, disenfectants, antifly sprays, showels, brooms, soda bicarbona and such since more than 1/3 of Serbia has been under water since the catastrophic floods last week. The City of Obrenovac has been basically destroyed and won't be fitt for living for a long time. Some areas of the country probably won't be livable again. The same goes for Bosnia and Hercegovina where several regions with cities and villages don't exist anymore. The biggest problem there represent minefields left from the Yugoslav succession war which have moved and have to be found again. In the minefields there were over 10.000 mines left. Also Bosnia has been bankrupt before this crisis so any financial help is also needed.

The whole region that was covered with water at the floods peak is calculated at approximately 22.900 km2 - Bosnia and Hercegovina + Serbia. That is bigger then the size of my country - namely Slovenia.

One Croatian are was also affected by floods and one City had to be fully evacuated.

If anybody wants to help Serbia financially here you can donate to the Serbian flood relief fund: http://www.floodrelief.gov.rs/eng/

Paypal Caritas Bosnia: Pay Pal: suzanab21@gmail.com
You can check that the paypal address is genuine on the Bosnian Caritas site: http://www.carbkbih.org/

Financial donations link for Croatia: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsee/files/2014/05/CroatiaFloods.jpg

Belgrade means white fortress...

It depends if you want to hang out with Serbians or will you be satisfied with someone that isn't a Serb but is born & bred in Serbia. ;)

I'm always open to new friendships, so feel free to contact me on PM.

btw. Don't know what you're talking about with White Fortress. If you're talking about Belgrade (Beograd) that would be translated as White City. There is White Church (Bele Crkva) which borders Romania.

Our news covered it and were were not part of Yugoslavia. ;-)

I know some Japanese colleagues of mine heard about the floods from their Tokyo news so the floods definitely received at least a bit of international coverage.

Life here isn't bad, but there's a special kind of mentality which might take you by surprise if you're from the more "uptight", reserved countries.

I second this. :)

Also wanted to say thanks to both Matruchus and BranjoHello for raising awareness of the current crisis in Serbia and Bosnia. Thank you.

Edit: Although it's more correct to say Bela Crkva.

You need to look for it (it's not on the front page or anything) but it's covered on the BBC news...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-27501401