Dijana Urosevic: Thinking of Myself Being from Serbia

Dijana Urosevic

Vuk:

“When you were young, did you think of yourself more as Serbian or you go yugoslavian, please explain. Has that changed now?”

Dijana:

Well I was born in Yugoslavia and I never ever consider myself as someone else. Like I would alway declare I was Yugoslavian never Serbian and late when the country fell apart for a long alway declare I was Yugoslavian never Serbian and late when the country fell apart for a long time after that, you know, it actually took me a  long time to consider myself and to say, I am Serbian.

Vuk: How was the life of living in belgrade? Living back then?

Dijana (05:26):

Living in Belgrade? I enjoyed it a lot that time. I always used to go on walks with my parents right by the riverbank. Back then me and my friends would always go to the movie theaters and I really enjoyed it. I spent a lot of time going outside and playing basketball with my friends. We would ride bicycles and what I enjoyed the most was being very spontaneous that time. We never, we never needed to call anybody and to make some, advanced appointment or whatever. We just continuously walk in someone's house, knock the door, or ring the bell, just go in and, uh, start playing or just go outside and play basketball. This is where I fell in love with the game, Basketball.

Um, what were some of your memories of being a kid in Yugoslavia?

Dijana (01:31):

Oh, I have great memories from that period of my life, although I was really small. This is actually the period when I started my primary school and where I met all my friends for the whole, my life. I still have a best friend, even today, we enjoy little things that probably were considered that time a very normal back then today, probably very strange nowadays. ’’I always remember us traveling everywhere by car without having air conditioning, without having safety belts, no devices in the car, nothing except the beautiful landscape around us.’’

“If you think you have found the best cook in the world, you haven't. Dijana Urosevic, the best mom in the world, is also an amazing photographer who loves taking pictures and socializing with everyone.  

-Dijana Urosevic

what was school like for you when you was, can you explain how

Dijana (08:30):

One of the biggest differences is once actually that nowadays you go to school and you go in the morning and you come back, uh, after going home. Yeah. What we had, it's a big difference to, to what you have now is like, we used to go to a school in two shifts. One week we would go in the morning shifts, starting from eight o'clock, finishing around two or one 30. And, uh, the next week we would go in an afternoon sheet, uh, that would start at one 30 and finish around seven o'clock in the evening. Um, uh, we would have like, uh, usually around six, uh, six subjects a day, uh, a lot of homeworks. Uh, we didn't have lockers. Like you have, for example, we had to bring all our, uh, things or our school supplies and books and notebooks every day to school.