Mareike Thärigen, Year 2 (2022)
UWC Mostar
Mostar for me is in fact a star. It is a place that fills me with joy but also sets impulses. It makes me think each time I am feeling the sun on my (from biking tours burned) skin, each time my feet are sensing the grass in the park and each time my eyes are beholding the shapes of different houses, round mosques, green trees, stony mountains and bright lights while my ears are listening to church bells announcing the beginning of a new hour. This image is probably the one I experienced the absolute most in my first year, considering how much time I spent on the Susac Balconies. They offered me whatever I needed at any point, and not only were they my home-feeling spot in my residence, but they were also the settings of deep (night) conversations, of laughter with friends, of the one and only best-balcony-teatimes, of discussions whether cereal is a soup and or soup a salad and they were the location for odd cards against humanity stories that built the first and the last evenings of my year one at UWC.
Something I have realized recently is that MOSTAR not only contains star, but that mo is the ending in verbs for “we” in the local language. I like building the link to further Mostar being a place that is connecting us, that lets many stars from around the world come together and meet each other. I like the metaphor of each of us carrying their own light through the world and making it shine together for a while here in Mostar. That’s a huge part of what UWCiM means to me: gathering here to live share learn on various and diverse levels talk about very random topics laugh about small things following the spirit that most uwc students feel and share, regardless from which college they attend(ed). But one particular character that I am continuously loving about UWCiM and which I have been experiencing as being truly unique to us, is the vitality of making the best out of it. This can refer to multitudinous various smaller and greater elements, and I feel honored to have seen creativity, crazy ideas that might or might not have ended up working, changes and improvements that followed up on the basis of not having everything we desire permanently given around us. Makingthebestoutofit impels us to pay attention to our surroundings and thrusts our brain cells in the position of trying to find less common but inspirational ways to get to a result we were striving for. Making the best out of it embolds us to value tiny parts in our lives.
reimagining tomorrow
to me, is the embodiment on a greater scale of the essence described above.
to me, means allowing ourselves to dream and having the courage of making one step further, where we truly comprehend the attainableness of the vision in our head.
to me, opens up the option to create the world how we want it to be like
to me, focuses on ways of living and acting that we have not contemplated being enough before
to me, seems to be waiting for us to live what we are feeling deeper inside our hearts
to me, is holding the potential of making true what generations before us have been trying to achieve
to me, offers the embracement of sensitivity towards our surroundings and the ambience
to me, invites to reconnect ourselves with the nature
to me, implies the understanding of what we have lost
And the journey of finding it again
to me, is promising wonders
Something I have realized recently is that MOSTAR not only contains star, but that mo is the ending in verbs for “we” in the local language. I like building the link to further Mostar being a place that is connecting us, that lets many stars from around the world come together and meet each other. I like the metaphor of each of us carrying their own light through the world and making it shine together for a while here in Mostar. That’s a huge part of what UWCiM means to me: gathering here to live share learn on various and diverse levels talk about very random topics laugh about small things following the spirit that most uwc students feel and share, regardless from which college they attend(ed). But one particular character that I am continuously loving about UWCiM and which I have been experiencing as being truly unique to us, is the vitality of making the best out of it. This can refer to multitudinous various smaller and greater elements, and I feel honored to have seen creativity, crazy ideas that might or might not have ended up working, changes and improvements that followed up on the basis of not having everything we desire permanently given around us. Makingthebestoutofit impels us to pay attention to our surroundings and thrusts our brain cells in the position of trying to find less common but inspirational ways to get to a result we were striving for. Making the best out of it embolds us to value tiny parts in our lives.
reimagining tomorrow
to me, is the embodiment on a greater scale of the essence described above.
to me, means allowing ourselves to dream and having the courage of making one step further, where we truly comprehend the attainableness of the vision in our head.
to me, opens up the option to create the world how we want it to be like
to me, focuses on ways of living and acting that we have not contemplated being enough before
to me, seems to be waiting for us to live what we are feeling deeper inside our hearts
to me, is holding the potential of making true what generations before us have been trying to achieve
to me, offers the embracement of sensitivity towards our surroundings and the ambience
to me, invites to reconnect ourselves with the nature
to me, implies the understanding of what we have lost
And the journey of finding it again
to me, is promising wonders
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