Last Sunday a friend of mine from Morocco and I went to Janjeva, a little village approximately 20 km away from the district of Prishtina. A friend of us, who lives there invited us to visit Janjeva. Interesting about Janjeva is that there live 4 different ethnicity groups all together in that little old village; Albanians, Croatians, Serbs, and the Ashkali. The whole village was kind of separated in districts, there were parts of the village where only Albanians would live and other parts where Croatians live and so on. However, they would all meet in the “center” which had many little caffees, a little bakery and the Mosque and the Church. They all live peacefully together – I liked that.
Our friend showed us around. The houses in the village were old and small.
The highlight of this trip was Gaga.
Gaga is an old Croatian Lady who always lived in Janjeva. She allowed us to visit her in her own House, in which she had a beautiful Garden. Gaga told us about her life as a Croatian in Kosovo. She had a big family, but her children left Kosovo and went to Croatia. Today she lives with only one of her daughters in her beautiful House in Janjeva.
I enjoyed that Sunday a lot. 🙂
– Besiana Kajtazi