-the next part-
Viva!: Did you quickly meet for the second time?
Anja: After our first date I had to go for a photoshoot, but Sasha told he'll be waiting for me. After I came back we went for a long walk to Central Park. We both admire this place. We were talking for a few hours, we completely loose a sense of time [? idk if it's how I should translate it]. Then I got to know that Sasha never wanted to be a model. He was talking about his big passion for basketball. He comes from Serbia, but his family lived in Vienna. He grew up there. Since early years he had been training basketball and as a young boy got into Italian team. He moved to Milan then and was sure he'll be a basketball player. But everything went not as he wished to. During one of the plays he got a serious injury. Instead of scoring, he went to the hospital. It wasn't obvious if he will ever be able to get back to sport. And then Giorgio Armani itself got interested in him. And we all know he adores basketball players. He invited Sasha to one of his advertising campaigns. Sasha was good and that's how it started.
Viva!: He liked the job of a model?
Anja: I think he likes what he's doing, but modelling isn't his big passion. He rather treats it as a well-paid job and that's all. In fact he is still looking for his place, and this is an inspirational search [?? completely don't know how should I translate that]. Sasha impresses me by the fact he has so many interests, that something drives him [??-positive meaning] all the time, he can't stay in one place. During these months we had spent together, we went together to Milan, Vienna, Belgrade, Mexico, Paris and Częstochowa. We both love to spend time in an active way and this is wonderful.
Viva!: Did you bring him to your parents' house to Częstochowa?
Anja: Yes. At the beginning I was afraid of this meeting. I was talking with my parents about Sasha via phone and I didn't rush at all with our visit together to Poland. Once I was talking with Sasha about our families. We both left our family homes at a young age, started working, we grew up in foreign countries. But neither me or him stopped missing childhood. When I was listening to Sasha's stories about his home, I thought it would be wonderful, if he met my close family. I propsed him a visit to Częstochowa. He was amazed. While we were in Poalnd, we visited Cracow and Wieliczka also, but the most wonderful was in my family house. My parents were immedietely infatuated [?? idk if you can use such word not only in "couple" meaning ] by Sasha. He is a very happy person and has a great sense of humour, which my dad liked. They were both laughing all the time. I felt like my parents had been knowing him for a long time.
Viva!: You also met his family?
Anja: Yes. In summer Sasha took me to Vienna. I met his parents, friends, aquaintances. He showed me his favourite places. I saw, where he started playing basketball, I visited the school he attended. These were wonderful days. His parents welcomed me warmly [??]. I went there "with soul on my arm" [it's a Polish idiom, meaning that she was afraid to go there, she has lots of fears etc.] and therefore I saw I didn't have to fear of anything. At the end of my visit, I prepared a dinner for everyone. I love to cook and I prepared a ficassee from chicken with kuskus [??-don't know how to translate it]. I proved I'm a good wife material (laugh).