What I wouldn’t give for a Law & Order Marathon

Today has been a great day.  I woke up about 8am and had breakfast.  Then I uploaded a number of photos to Facebook and wrote on some friends walls.  I studied some Bulgarian and then took an early afternoon nap.  Today is my first day “off” in quite awhile.  I feel like I’ve been going, [...]

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Obama in Bulgaria

I’ve been watching the news this afternoon–the BBG that’s not to be confused with the BBC as these are two different things.  The BBG is the Bulgarian Broadcasting something or other which starts with a G.  If I knew more Bulgarian I could probably tell you what the G stood for but for right now, [...]

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Settling into Sofia

I am back in Sofia and settling in nicely. On Saturday night, I went out with a group of friends from the Fulbright International Summer Institute or FISI for short (this is the program I’ve been on for the last two weeks in Tryavna). And, I had my first two house guests which [...]

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Carolyn: Chasing Lunch

For a number of years in DC, I didn’t eat meat. Then my roommates wore me down and I started eating meat (it’s pretty hard to say no to my two male roommates and between the two of them they are pretty good with a grill and fryer and anything that was once breathing). [...]

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Tryavna: Art Performance

I’ve been in Tryavna a little over a week now. Thus far, I have more to say about the experience than I’ve had time to write about it. So here’s a quick update: I’ve been out almost every night this week and can confirm that men and women living in the Balkans take [...]

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Bulgarian-US Men’s Volleyball

I watched the Bulgarian-US men’s volleyball game last night. The game was announced, of course, in Bulgarian. I understood the scores as the were announced and not much else. And one of the major things that stood out to me during the two and a half hour match was the fact that there [...]

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Box wine in Bulgaria

Quick update: Robyn, et all, I just about lost it on Monday night when at one of our formal dinners, the hotel were serving box wine. Bulgarian boxed wine! It was great fun to see this. There was both red and white wine but the white I think was better than [...]

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First Day in Tryavna

I arrived in Tryavna last night. We were scheduled to meet everyone in a hotel in Sofia outside of the city center and when I asked the Fulbright coordinator how I should get there she told me to take the bus. I was nervous about this but figured I would leave early and [...]

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A Few of My Favorite Things

When I started this post it originally read: I am going to lunch in 40 minutes so this is going to be a quick post today but by the time I actually post to my blog it’s 9:30 at night.  I just had a 7 hour lunch which was amazing and makes me want to [...]

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Sightings: out and about

I woke up late this morning–11:30am to be exact so after almost exactly 12 hours of sleeping I figured that I had better drag myself out of bed. It’s pretty incredible actually because I think that the pillow that came with my furnished apartment might actually be made out of rocks. After the [...]

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