Spotlight
Stamps
Stamps Your grandma always wanted you to take up collecting stamps, but luckily to no avail, you weren’t a child in 1857- thank you very much. They seemed to have some weird fascination with it too, always making sure they were safely tucked away on sturdy oak...
LGBTQ in Slovenia
by Gaja Frece and Urška Jovič Penko While same sex partnership has been a private matter for centuries, younger generations of Slovenians are getting louder. The moto we are here-we are queer can be heard through the streets of all bigger cities. Pride, a word we used...
Meet “the boys”
by Jasmina Andrejc and Ana Vrečar You know those six boys in 2.a? I didn’t think so. Let’s get to know them together. Have you ever wondered who the coolest boys in our high school are? Those would be our six schoolmates: Jani, Vid, Luka, Zal, Vid and Luka. Since...
Slovenian flavour
SLOVENIAN FLAVOUR by Leoni Jošt and Neža Vollmaier Slovenian cuisine is very diverse and interesting for local people and tourists. When people visit our country, they often complement our home-made dishes and hospitality of the locals. Every region has its specific...
Hugo Wolf
I will present an important composer who was born right here in my hometown, Slovenj Gradec. His name is Hugo Wolf. He was born on 13 March in 1860 and died at the early age of 43 on 22 February in 1903, in Vienna. He was born as the third child of Philip Wolf and his...
Pandemic book list
During the quarantine we have all tried to take up hobbies or devoted more of our time to pre-existing ones. Since I have been reading so much, I decided to compose a reading list. Some of the books are directly about pandemics/epidemics, others induce feelings akin...
Old McDonald had a farm
In September 2020 class 2a from High School Slovenj Gradec visited Tourist farm Lešnik, which is on Legen, near Slovenj Gradec. We headed to the farm on Friday afternoon with our teachers, Alenka Kac Herkovič and Marjeta Uršič. We stayed overnight and slept on their...
THE LITTLE MATCH GIRL
Our high school club called SPUNK prepared a special project for this year's theatre. The story about The Little Match Girl from one of the most famous story writers of all time - Hans Christian Andersen - was adapted into a school play. It's a story about a poor...
Nootropics – an amazing innovation or a dangerous drug?
The 2011 film Limitless and the subsequent 2015 TV show Limitless are centered on a magic pill or smart drug NZT-48 which grants the user the usage of every neuron in his brain for 12 hours, which of course makes you really smart, gives you extraordinary abilities and...