Letter

To be far way from home and yet feel like to be with them! Probably everyone has had difficult moments in their lives and needed family and good friends to pass through it with. When you arrange your agenda, you don’t plan that some days you will be ill. The illness does not ask you if you have time for it, if you are in the right place to have it or if you are with the your family and people that you love the most. The same has happened to me: my eye did not ask that I was alone, without my family and far away from my home country, that I was so busy with my final theses that there wasn’t time to take off. On 12 November I had an operation on my right eye. I was so scared to have an operation in another country and to not have my family with me. I was terrible scared. But it was not as hard as I thought, as there are good people everywhere, it does not matter the country they came from; they are so generous, friendly, sensitive, nice. The hardest part has now passed and I feel much better. I’m conscious that I never could’ve had enough strength and care by myself, without the help of other people who I respect and love more. Through this newspaper I want to thank all the people that gave me the help and care I needed: the people at the hospital, friends Migena, Ilda, Ina, and Stefan, who made my day change from black to bright. And I cannot forget the lab members of Aero&Hydrodynamics (OCP). Thank you to all who gave to me the warmest breath of humanity, who made me feel as if I were home, as if I were with my family.

Xhemile Bakiu, MSc, Aero&Hydrodynamics

Thanks

I will be so happy if you will publish this as a ‘Thanks giving’ sign to the people who helped me so much and made my life easier to pass during the most difficult days of my life. To be far way from home and yet feel like to be with them! Probably everyone has had difficult moments in their lives and needed family and good friends to pass through it with. When you arrange your agenda, you don’t plan that some days you will be ill. The illness does not ask you if you have time for it, if you are in the right place to have it or if you are with the your family and people that you love the most. The same has happened to me: my eye did not ask that I was alone, without my family and far away from my home country, that I was so busy with my final theses that there wasn’t time to take off. On 12 November I had an operation on my right eye. I was so scared to have an operation in another country and to not have my family with me. I was terrible scared. But it was not as hard as I thought, as there are good people everywhere, it does not matter the country they came from; they are so generous, friendly, sensitive, nice. The hardest part has now passed and I feel much better. I’m conscious that I never could’ve had enough strength and care by myself, without the help of other people who I respect and love more. Through this newspaper I want to thank all the people that gave me the help and care I needed: the people at the hospital, friends Migena, Ilda, Ina, and Stefan, who made my day change from black to bright. And I cannot forget the lab members of Aero&Hydrodynamics (OCP). Thank you to all who gave to me the warmest breath of humanity, who made me feel as if I were home, as if I were with my family.

Xhemile Bakiu, MSc, Aero&Hydrodynamics