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Ratka

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About Me

English/Spanish language teacher. Absolutely addicted to travelling. Obsessed with Edgar Allan Poe. Dependent upon dogs and flowers. Possibly not very tolerant. Definately an atheist.

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My Interests

Travelling. Reading. Planning. Making itineraries. Dreaming. Working on my grumpiness and excelling at my cynism.

I'd like to meet:

Most of the people that I would like to meet are dead....aside from that, I would definately be open to aliens, lost souls, troubled writers, passionate teachers, people addicted to travelling and those not voting in Serbia.

Music:

The Killers, Coldplay, Franz Ferdinand, Massive Attack, Keane, New Radicals, Scissor Sisters, Muse, Leonard Cohen, Depeche Mode, Nick Cave, Alejandro Sanz, Alejandro Fernandez, Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Cole Porter, Patrizio Buanne, Mariachis and Djordje Balasevic.

Movies:

Cary Grant. Arsenic and Old Lace. Casablanca. Gone With the Wind. The Way We Were. Tim Burton. Javier Bardem. Johnny Depp. Rupert Everett. When the Night Falls. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Christian Bale. James Dean.

Television:

Lost!!!, House MD, Nip/Tuck, The Tudors, Monk, Rome, South Park, Star Trek, CSI, Sex and the City, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Battlestar Galactica, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Connan O'Brian, The Colbert Report.

Books:

The Complete Works of E.A. Poe and Byron. Shelley, Keats, Coleridge, Christopher Marlowe, Wilde, Lovecraft, Austen, Vonnegut, Bierce, Fitzgerald, Durrell, Huxley... Top 10 books: 1. Alexandria Quartet by Durrell 2. Point Counterpoint by Huxley 3. Persuasion by Austen 4. Thornbirds by McCullough 5. Poslednja ljubav u Carigradu by Pavic 6. Devil's Dictionary by Bierce 7. A Tale of Two Cities by Dickens 8. Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Adams 9. Good Omens by Pratchett and Gaiman 10. Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald And not necessarily in this order.

Heroes:

My dogs.

My Blog

Spring Break in Prague

We haven't left Serbia yet when it started....So when we reached Prague, half of us got lost...courtesy of teacher Ratka...After we reunited, the pub was the answer :)Then, we opted for going out usin...
Posted by Ratka on Fri, 02 May 2008 12:29:00 PST

Valentine’s Day Party Pics

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Posted by Ratka on Mon, 18 Feb 2008 12:25:00 PST

Benvenutti a Roma!

Since I am a fan of HBO's Rome  - unrightfully cut to two seasons, geez...- the best way to start my 3rd trip to Rome would be from the Palatine Hill. I'll just say that Octavian/Augustus lived t...
Posted by Ratka on Sat, 05 Jan 2008 07:44:00 PST

For Reasons Unknown

I LOVE this song! It's been a while since I was so manically listening to the same track over and over again - I would say the last event of that kind took place when Coldplay's The Scientist came out...
Posted by Ratka on Wed, 05 Sep 2007 02:56:00 PST

Ionian islands and Parga

August in my life....or....how I had a great time cruising around the Ionian islands. .. The biggest of them all - Kephalonia The home of Odysseus - Ithaka Sapho killed herself here...at l...
Posted by Ratka on Sat, 18 Aug 2007 03:48:00 PST

Malta

Summer`s been hellish this year with temperatures in Belgrade of 42 C - which, let me tell you, is A LOT. Especially for a country that does not have the sea. Since I am THE sea maniac ...
Posted by Ratka on Sun, 22 Jul 2007 01:04:00 PST

Springtime in Greece

I wish I could start with "after much thought and consideration, I decided to go to Greece..." There was no thought. No consideration. No pros and cons. I just went. May I add, as always. It wasn`t m...
Posted by Ratka on Wed, 18 Apr 2007 11:29:00 PST