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Chance encounter

Posted in Culture, Having Fun, People watching, tagged , , , on September 30, 2008 | 4 Comments »

Yesterday, I was waiting to cross a fairly busy street.  The light had just turned red.  I had been at school and was crossing to go and get a coffee and banitsa to kill 90 minutes until a 4pm meeting.  This is when a little old woman starts talking to me.
She has her hair back [...]

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Shopping: Apteka!?!

Posted in Culture, People watching, Shopping, tagged , , , , on September 28, 2008 | 5 Comments »

I never imagined that I would be overwhelmed with options in Bulgaria.  I think that I thought this is for two reasons. First, in the States we seem to have about 15-20 different choices for everything when you go to the store.  This goes for kinds of cheese to shampoo to dish soap to boxes [...]

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Sofia Blog: So Sofia

Posted in Culture, Having Fun, Restaurants, Travel, tagged , , on September 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Okay, I’ve just been introduced to this great blog called SoSofia and it’s SoGreat.  One of my new friends from FISI studies at Sofia University in the department of English and American Studies with the brother and sister pair who write the blog and she said in passing one night you should check out this [...]

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Trouble comes in Threes!

Posted in Having Fun, tagged , , , on September 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Well, I am happy to write that the internet is back on at my place.  The hot water heater is working.  AND, I just got to watch my landlord stock up my coffee machine and had the opportunity to try out my pretty bad Bulgarian on him.  All in all, a pretty good day.  Oh [...]

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I miss you, hot water

Posted in Living Life, tagged , , , on September 20, 2008 | 5 Comments »

Well, I currently don’t have hot water or the internet at my apartment.  I guess when it rains it pours.  Anyhow, I noticed that the hot water heater which is conveniently located in my shower was dripping water the other morning.  I saw my landlord the next day and he had a guy into look [...]

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A Real Conversation

Posted in Having Fun, Learning Bulgarian, tagged , on September 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »

I just had my first “Real Conversation” in Bulgarian!! I conjugated verbs and everything.  It was amazing.  My landlord came over to give me the receipts for internet, water, electricity and the like and I was able to communicate to him that water heater seems to be dripping.  Okay it helped that I could show [...]

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Today

Posted in Culture, People watching, School, Shopping, tagged , , , , , on September 16, 2008 | 4 Comments »

I thought I was having a no-good, ugly-rotten day today.  I had a hard time getting out of bed this morning even with my alarm clock beeping and beeping.  My faucet in the bathroom drips and drips and after brushing my teeth I couldn’t get it to stop.  Then I went to make coffee and [...]

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First Day of School!

Posted in Culture, People watching, School, tagged , , , on September 15, 2008 | 12 Comments »

Today was the first day of school in Bulgaria.  I love the first day of school.  I love buying new pens and pencils, I love role-call and learning who is in your class, I love figuring out which color of notebook I want to use for each class, I love opening a textbook for the [...]

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Fulbright Applications

Posted in Culture, Fulbright, People watching, tagged , , , , , , , on September 14, 2008 | 4 Comments »

I found myself thinking about the Fulbright application process this morning.  Over the last four years, it’s been kind of an obsession of mine–or it was for four years at Georgetown University where I worked in the Office of Fellowships as the Associate Director and served as the university’s Fulbright Program Advisor.  I found myself [...]

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Starbucks in Sofia

Posted in Culture, Having Fun, People watching, Restaurants, tagged , , , on September 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I’ve been overwhelmed with the amazing coffee I’ve had in Sofia.  The best part is not a single cup of it has been from Starbucks (and even if I wanted it, I couldn’t get it. There’s not a single Starbucks here and really why would you go when the other options are superior).  The thing [...]

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