It’s been a bit

I’ve been busy, busy.  And I realized that I haven’t written in a number of days.  The worst part really is that while I’ve been busy the things I’ve been aren’t so interesting.  I mean I like doing them but there’s not so much to report on.
I guess that’s what happens when you start teaching [...]

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Sofia Dance Week

It’s the second year of Sofia Dance Week be hosted in, you guessed it, Sofia.  I am going with one of my teacher friends and her sister to see what promises to be a bold piece. The Sofia Dance Week website describes the piece this way: Érection. A man, lying on the stage, struggles to [...]

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Me in Bulgarian

Аз съм Каролин.  Аз съм на 28 години и аз съм от америка. Моят роден град е корвалис.  Аз имам брат и сестра. Брат ми живее в сан франсиско с приятелка. Той е инженер.  той е на 25 години.  Систра ме живее във вашингтон.  Тя е студентка.  Моите чичо и леля жевеят в спокан.  Те [...]

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How to spend a long weekend

First, thing first.
Happy Birthday dAd!
Also, thanks for being born in 1950–it makes it a lot easier for me to do the math and figure out that you’re 59 today.  Wosa.  59.  dAd, you realize that you’re a year away from 60 now (and that makes me a year-plus away from being 30)?!? Hope that you’re [...]

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Nearly Naked Woman

I bought an ironing board yesterday (along with two sweaters, a scarf, a pair of sunglasses, salt and pepper shakers and a new garbage can–for the record, I did not buy these things all at the same place).  I am really happy with all of my purchases.  And I’ve gotten a big kick out of [...]

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Long Weekend

It’s a long weekend starting today.  I am not exactly sure what the weekend is for.  I know that September 15th was the Day of Sofia and I think that the reunification of Bulgaria is coming up but even a year later, I have a hard time keeping up with the holidays.
Don’t get me wrong [...]

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Bulgarian Visa

Great news, for me! I don’t have to fly back to the States to make my visa application.  I guess this is bad news for my friends and family in the States but I couldn’t be happier.
I get to stay in Bulgaria, make a couple of short trips to Greece and I’ll hardly miss teaching [...]

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A Slab of Banitsa

Yesterday using Skype I spoke to my American friend Robyn.  Last year she lived in Budapest on a Fulbright and this year she’s living and teaching in the States.  We’ve been friends since graduate school and she’s one of the people who came to visit me this last year in Bulgaria.
She was telling me how [...]

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My first lesson

Today’s my first Bulgarian lesson with my new tutor. I’ve prepared by digging out my two Bulgarian text books. One called “Learn Bulgarian the Easy Way” and the other called simply Bulgarian Language–it’s the text book that ичс (Sofia University’s language school) uses.
I also bought a new notebook for my new [...]

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Language Neutral Appliances

I have an apartment full of language neutral appliances (oh and they are gender neutral as well–they are all silver).  I’ve got an oven, washing machine and gasp a dryer in my apartment that don’t speak any one language.  Instead, they use pictures.  The thing is I can’t always read the pictures.
Today I was trying [...]

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