String: Too Short To Use

I’ve been thinking a lot about packing, moving and collecting things. I grew up in a family that saves everything. I guess that’s what happens when your parents run an antique store. This means I am used to old things and never getting rid of anything because who knows when you might [...]

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Learning to Count, Again

I work with my Bulgarian Language tutor two times a week. As I’ve already mentioned, she grew up in Sofia and whet to college in the American South and is now working on her PhD in Washington DC. Recently I learned that she graduated from the second class of the American College of Sofia [...]

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One Wedding and my Wittenberg thank-yous

I just got back home from a weekend wedding in Columbus, Ohio. I had a wonderful time. It was great to see my college friends. I flew in on Friday morning and out today, Sunday, in the afternoon. I studied Bulgarian on the Friday morning flight. Now that I’ve [...]

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Two suitcases, a carry-on and a backpack

This is all that I am taking with me when I move to Sofia: two suitcases, a carry-on and my backpack. It means that I am frantically downsizing my life and the things that I can’t bear to give away I am sending home to my parents. They should expect a couple of [...]

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What is in a Name?

I’ve been renamed.
It’s funny because I’ve never really had problems with my first name people read it and know it and frankly my parents planned it this way because no one ever gets my last name right on the first try. Given the name of my blog, my first name should come as no [...]

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The Background

I made a Fulbright application in September 2007 to Bulgaria, in late January I found out that my application had been forwarded to country and finally in April after lots of worrying and waiting the envelope came–I’d won a Fulbright fellowship. I had spent the previous two weeks coming home from work or [...]

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