RESEARCHES IN THE YEARS OF STUDIES

Although I have already finished my studies in 2008 and I have obtained the title of Master of Science, I still remember those days when I was a student of social anthropology at the ISH institute in Ljubljana. I had luck because at that time we had really the best professors possible at our study program. Not only Slovene professors, but also from the United States and Croatia. It was really a great study program and in the time of my studies I had the possibility to know a lot of people to travel for research purposes and make friends.
In these years I did some researches for the subjects we were studying. I will mention below all the researches I did in the years I was still a student in social anthropology.
My researches and their titles. Some are in Slovene, some in English.

1. Being a tourist:Social suspension of status and social roles. (in Slovene)
   
2. Living in Casas particular in Cuba and the beginning of fictive kinship.(in Slovene)
   
3. Prekmurje in Tourist texts: the white storks and the melancholic, dreamy, mysterious, calm landscape of the forgotten region. (in English)
   
4. Travelling: In search of paradise. (in Slovene)
   
5. Slovene tourist industry from Socialism to Post-socialism: Tourism as a media to create the national image.
   
6. People in the photos of the magazine "Horizont": Camera lens as the weapon of culture/cultural power. (in Slovene)
   
7. Cuba: Female sex tourists and "jineteros": the disguised power of the "Other" over the eroticized body of the "Exotic Other".
8. Minorities from the Former Yugoslavia between the improper media definition and the ostrich state policy. (in Slovene)
9. The research method using porno videos as a fieldwork. Very interesting indeed. We were analysing the concept of racism in porn movies, especially what concerns women in the industry. Unfortunately the records of this research are saved on a diskette that are nowadays obsolete.

And finally, the greatest and most important research I did to finish my studies and get my Master, was the research I did in Colombia. Thanks to my friends in Colombia, mostly in the region Valle del Cauca, in Cali, I could carry out my research. Without their help, I would have been lost there. I could finish it in time and I hope a did a good job there. The result of that has the following title:

SUSTAINABLE TOURISM AND QUALITY OF LIFE:THE CASE OF VALLE DEL CAUCA, COLOMBIA


sugar cane in the Cauca Valey (Valle del Cauca)


ARTICLES THAT WERE PUBLISHED:

1. In the magazine MONITOR, they published in 2007 my article in English: CONSTRUCTION OF URBAN AND NON-URBAN SPACES IN TRAVEL MAGAZINE PHOTOGRAPHS
2. In the magazine MONITOR, it was published in 2008 an article out of a research I did for the University. Its title is: MINORITIES FROM FORMER YUGOSLAVIA CAUGHT BETWEEN THE MEDIA AND THE POLICY OF THE STATE

29.5.2009 - It's a girl!

I was in the 21. week when me and my husband had the second ultrasound in the Hospital. I was pretty excited and preoccupied if everything would be fine with the baby. This was my principal preoccupation. And of course, we were curious whether our baby is a boy or a girl. As I didn't do all the tests I was worried how would everything go. And because telling the truth I was never fond of hospitals and doctors, and now I have to do lots of exams. But the ultrasound is always the must exciting part of this exams. Me and my husband were watching every move of the baby. It was really amazing. When the doctor said that everything is ok with the baby, wow, I was relieved. And finally the question if she can see if it is a boy or a girl. The doctor said the baby is a girl. A little GIRL. We were both very excited and my husband couldn't stop smiling.
And here are some pics of our little girl.

In this photo is her little nose, her lips and her chin, than her belly and her little arms. Pretty amazing. Her belly is big, of course, she eats fine food.

Here is our little angel seen from the profile: her big head, her arms and her legs. At the ultrasound we saw that she was touching her feet with her little fingers. She is a little athlete. My husband said that he could saw how she was opening her mouth. She was practising breathing and suction.
We received several photos of our little, but we do not understand all of them. I am still studying what all this letters and measurements mean. In the following photo for example I have no idea what is seen, or is her face or is her entire body.

To me looks more her face, but who knows, it can be her entire body, depends how you look at her. But the most important thing is that she is doing fine and developing normally. Hope she continues like this. My brother in law said that he dreamt that our baby was born and it was fat. Well, better than too skiny.
We also decided about the name yet, we will call her Angelica Gabriela. Hope she will like her name too. But when we call her that way, she doesn't kick me, so it means that she likes it. She kick when she doesn't like something, some sounds, some music, or when I put the laptop too close to the belly. The other day she gave strong kicks, when my husband put his ear on the belly to hear her movements. And she kicked strongly. She already has his gymnastic hours in the morning, afternoon and in the evening. Even before I go to sleep and I caress the belly, she starts to move. It is incredible, now I can fell her movements every day. Before I felt her movement only here and there. But I am happy to feel her move, so I know she is fine and healthy and does her exercises. Good job girl. Pap is proud of you too.

The surprising news and the first ultrasound of the baby

It was in February this year when me and my husband were still in Peru, when we received the news that we did not expect at all. I thought I has some kind of inflammation of the urinary system and the menses did not appear. I never even thought it would be something else than the inflammation, as I had no symptoms of pregnancy. So after wondering what can be, we finally decided that is time to visit the doctor. I explained the doctors my symptoms and the fact that I have a delay in the menses. He just ask about the delay and first thing he sent me to do the blood test.
We have to wait one hour to collect the results of the blood test to see what it is. After one hour we got the results and took it to the doctor. He examined the results and said:"There is no doubt miss, you are pregnant. As you can see you are six week pregnant."
Woooooowww I thought, PREGNANT. Uhhhh, I didn't expect that, and my husband neither, so we just look at each other and said: Pregnant? Well and now what.
The doctor recommended us some examinations and of course the ultrasound to see how the baby is doing. As first time parents we had no idea what to do first, exams or ultrasound, and where to live with the baby.
I did the transvaginal ultrasound on the 16th March, when we see for the first time our little baby. Here is the first pic of our baby.
This small and fat little person above is our baby. here we can see his big head and big belly and small feet. Hehheehe, yes, it seems that it will be fat our little baby. Fortunately all was well and that ultrasound, we heard for the first time the beat of her heart. It was really a crazy experience to hear this strong heartbeat 150 times per minute. And she was 33 mm long or high. High, long, well, so to speak, 33 mm is very very small.
And the expected date of her birth is 10 ocbtober. But this is just an aproximate date they gave you according to the measurements.
But before I did the first exam to see what I had, just some days before that day, I dreamt my grandfather who I never saw in my life, because he deceased some months before my birth. I only know him from the photos my mum and my grandmother showed me. He was my mum's father, and was from Italy, from Avellino.
To return back to my incredible dream. I met him in the capital of my country, in Ljubljana, he was well dressed and was wearing a hat. He seemed seren and pleased. He invited me to to eat sweets. I asked him about his family about the Nazzaro and he wrote me a brief story of the family, but the only thing I could read was prison, 3 year and a name, Enzo. Before he left, he said to me: And don't forget to visit the doctor.
And so I did and received the incredible news. The interesting thing is that our baby will be born, according to the ultrasound, in the same month that my grandfather was born and also died.