Pozdrav sve!

Why dont we all post here a little introduction of ourselves? Include maybe who you are, where you are from, why you study or are interested in Serbain/Croatian/Bosnian....... Ill start.

Im Adam, 21 years old from Edinburgh, Scotland. I study Serbian and Croatian at university in Nottingham, England and Im going into the 3rd year of my degree. Which means I'm off to live in Beograd this October for a year! Im looking forward to it immensly! Cant wait.

I have really no idea why Im studying Serbian/Croatian or where my interest stems from. I have no family or friends there, nor do I have any links to the ex-Yugoslavia. As a child/teenager I remember watching the news and the horrors of the break-up of Yugoslavia and the Kosovo crisis. I think maybe this is where my interest stems from, a country/countries in Europe, just over the water from Italy - and all this stuff was happening (which I previously had thought only went on 50 years ago). And because I enjoy languages I figured maybe I should study this.

Thats not to say Im only interested in the region because of the horrors that happened. Im love the culture, the food, the history...basically everything about the Balkans (and Eastern Europe in general) - its far more interesting for me than plain old Western Europe!

Adam