How To:

Live in Slovenia

National HolidaysName Date

New Year 1st and 2nd January

Prešeren’s Day 8th February

Day of the Resistance Against Ocopator 27th April

Easter’s Monday 25th April (it’s different every year)

Labour Day 1st May

National holiday 1st and 2nd May

Assumption of Mary 15th August

Reformartion Day 31st October

All Saints’ Day 1st November

Christmas 25th December

Independence and Unity Day 26th December

Traditional dishes

• Kranjska Sausage – the most famous Slovenian dish

• Prekmurska cake• Kraška ham• Dumplings (with curd, walnuts, apples or

poppies)• Potica – a cake with more than 80 different

fillings)• Žganci (mush) – made of cornmeal

Public Transport• How to pay it? By cash or with tickets• If you pay it on the bus, it costs 1.10 €• You can buy tickets at kiosk for 2, 6, 10 or 20 rides. 2

rides cost 1.52 €• A ticket for mini bus costs 0.5 € and you can purchase it

ad hoc.• You can buy a monthly ticket with unlimited amount of

rides at the main bus station (Mlinska c. 1) and it costs 15.61 €

• Timetables for buses are available at: http://www.veolia-transport.si/tmpl/ExtensionPage____42529.aspx?epslanguage=ML

Health care

• Health insurance card• Appointment before visiting the doctor

A Clinic for Students

• Monday from 7:00 to 13:15• Tuesday from 16:15 to 19:30• Wednesday & Friday from 7:00 to 8:30• Thursday from 12:00 to 18:15• Saturday from 8:00 to 15:00• at Vošnjakova ulica 2-4, IV. flor

Telephony

• International outcoming telephone number: 00

• International incoming telephone number: 386

• Slovenian networks: Mobitel, Simobil, Tuš Mobil

Post of Slovenia

• Monday – Friday: from 8.00 to 18.00• Saturday: 8.00 to 12.00• More informations at: http://www.posta.si

Shops

• Monday – Friday: from 8.00 to 19.00 or even 21.00 (Europark)

• Saturday: 8.00 – 13.00 (15.00 – Europark)• You can buy things with € or by credit cards

Banks

• Monday – Friday: from 9.00 to 12.00 and from 14.00 to 17.00

• Saturday: from 9.00 to 12. 00• http://www.bsi.si/nadzor-bank.asp?MapaId=5

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Scholarships

• You have a right to ask for the national scholarship• For candidates who are applying for the first time

there is no deadline for applications• In order to apply you have to: Fulfill the form, add the entrance confirmation of our school and last year’s school certificate with grades

http://www.mddsz.gov.si/si/delovna_podrocja/trg_dela_in_zaposlovanje/stipendije/.

The law about alcohol consumption

• It is illegal to buy or drink alcoholic beverages until the age of 18. Shops and bars have a right to ask you for an ID when you attend to buy some. It is also illegal to buy alcoholic beverages in shops from 21.00 and in bars before 10.00 in the morning.

FREE TIME ACTIVITIES

• Recreation: • http://www.zdravazabava.com/• Sport at II. gimnazija Maribor• Pohorje and Betnava forest• Maribajk, daily rent of bikes (2 € from 10.00 to

16.00)

FREE TIME ACTIVITIES

• Art and culture• SNG (Slovenian National Theatre) • All interested: contact prof. Viljem Babič

(music) until the 27th of September• Museum of National Liberation Maribor:

http://www.muzejno-mb.si/novo/

FREE TIME ACTIVITIES

• Planet Tuš, Na Poljanah 18, MB• Kolosej, Loška 13, MB

• http://planet-tus.com/slo/• http://www.kolosej.si/

Discussion

• Did the local students help you last week ? What did they help you with?

• In the world where some people play in theatres, isn’t it true, that we are all a part of it? (A. Boal Theatre of oppressed)

• Prejudices about foreing people