Welcome to Juan Around - the Podcast. Today we went around the talk with Rozana Gjergji, one of the owners of Milingona hostel, where I was working as a volunteer in Tirana, Albania. She is a chess player and a lawyer that lived her childhood during the dictatorship times in her. We talked about:

• Working hard
• Owning a hostel in Albania
• Growing up under a dictatorship
• Becoming a teenager chess player for the party
• Privileges and traveling thanks to chess
• Losing childhood
• Softer times nowadays
• Becoming a rebel as a teenager
• Father child relationship
• the pressure of chess
• Leaving the game
• Relationship with parents
• Returning to chess
• Getting ready to leave chess for good
• How Rozana met her husband
• Relations with different religions
• God
• Religion in Albania through history
• Prohibition of religion during communist times
• Her work as a council in Rome
• Rozana after chess. The lawyer
• A legal case against the government
• Stand for yourself
• And many other topics

I hope you like the episode.

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You can find the song that Rozana Gjergji wants you to remember him with, here: https://open.spotify.com/track/3oEkrIfXfSh9zGnE7eBzSV?si=68b7438484ef4fed

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