Pilgrams and Sofia

I had 12 people over for Thanksgiving dinner on Thursday night.  It’s not a federal holiday here like it is in the states so I went to work taught two 80 minute classes and then hurried home to get started on dinner.
I took chocolates to school with me for the teachers.  It seemed appropriate.  I [...]

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Two Days of Turkey

Happy Thanksgiving.

Okay seriously, I am wishing everyone a very happy Thanksgiving.
Who knew I’d move to Sofia and get to celebrate Thanksgiving twice.  I’ll be eating turkey tonight and chicken tomorrow for the “real” Thanksgiving.  So I guess that my title today should really be “Two Days of Flightless Birds.” But I [...]

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Veliko Tarnovo

I went to Veliko Tarnovo on Saturday in a snow storm.  I thought it was going to be a pretty low key weekend and it was.  But I never expected that I’d be traveling to the city in the first snow storm of the year.  It’s made a couple of things clear: I need to [...]

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Snowing in Sofia

Wow. I woke up this morning to rain.  I got out of bed and thought great it’s not raining any more. Ha, ha.  Turns out, now it’s actually snowing.  This is unexpected.  I am still going to Veliko Turnovo–what’s a little snow?! Luckily it’s not sticking.  Wish me luck, I am going to break out [...]

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Strange Week

It’s been an odd week.  I got back from my travels on Tuesday.  The weather had finally changed which was expected but not entirely welcome and then I found myself in the middle of a strange week.
I picked up some groceries and worked on getting settled back into Sofia for a couple of days before [...]

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Weekend: Travel and Friends

I think that winter has come to Sofia. It was rainy yesterday when I landed and today I had to wear my winter coat to school. The air is damp and it’s been a little bit windy making it seem colder than it actually is nonetheless, it’s officially winter coat weather. There [...]

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Re-reading the Classics

To make copies at school, I’ve got to get the permission of one of the vice principles.  This week was the first time I needed to make copies and I have 210 students so it’s not a small project.  Once you have the form then  you take to the librarian who apparently maintains the books [...]

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Haircut & Heat

I decided two weeks or so ago that it was time for a haircut–I was unwilling to trim my bangs in the mirror one more time and I realized that my last cut was sometime back in early July.  So I asked one of my Bulgarian friends where she gets her hair cut. She has [...]

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Updates: Plovdiv

Gasp.  My coffee machine went down this week and I had no idea how reliant I’ve become on it.  Yesterday
for example, I could not get motivated to write a blog post.  I think it was the lack of caffeine.  Scary how easily we get addicted to the stuff.  One of my Bulgarian friends once said [...]

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In Plovdiv & Loving It

Hi all. I am in Plovdiv visiting another Fulbrighter and her dog (and yes, the dog is keeping his own blog about his time in the city).  The train ride from Sofia was great.  I took the Plovdiv city bus to her apartment without a hitch and we just spent the better part of the [...]

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