Archives for February 10th, 2005

Click on the picture for the complete interview.

The latest edition of fashion-magazine Gloss contains a series of short interviews with foreigners living in Slovenia, including yours truly. Fellow blogger and NYC transplant Brian also participated, helping to make me look bad by comparison.

We were each given the same questions: What don’t you understand about Slovenes, what do you miss from home, what do you envy about people here, etc…

They were difficult questions to answer, especially in just a few sentences. Even more so if you wanted to avoid the usual comments. I tried my best.

I should mention that I got a lot of help from the journalist, Alenka Kotnik, who did a splendid job of translating everything and also made some very helpful edits. For example, my original answer to "What do you think about Slovenia?" was:

"To me, you are slugs in the sun. You are privy to a great becoming but
you recognize nothing. You are ants in the afterbirth. Before me you
rightly tremble. I am not a man. I began as one, but now I am becoming more than a man, as you will witness."

… which she changed to:

"Slovenia is pretty cool and stuff."

In retrospect, that was probably a good idea.

The complete interview is here. (In Slovene only)