Listen up, we’ve got great news. Balkan Bred now has its very own podcast! The podcast is designed to connect diaspora through sharing each other’s stories. In the first episode, our founder, Emina Pelja, outlines how she started BB and her hopes and dreams for the next few years. The next
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It all happened two years ago, summer 2016. My mom, dad and brother were spending their summer in Bosnia visiting family and finishing renovations on our house while I stayed behind working and going to school. In prior years, I would have jumped at the opportunity to go overseas and
Your brain is the most complex organ in your body, you see, it has the power to just forget things that have happened to us as a natural survival skill and defense mechanism that we humans develop to protect ourselves. This seems to be the case of my childhood, perhaps
Eighteen years, two-hundred seventeen months, six-thousand six hundred seven days, and nine hundred forty-four weeks ago I started my first day of school. At the time, my mom was working first shift and my dad was responsible for getting me ready for school. We had a routine, he’d make me