Monthly Archives: January 2012
Chinese food In Bulgaria
Last monday was Chinese New Year, and one of your jobs as a Peace Corps Volunteer is cultural exchange. That is why when my friend Dan told me that he was going to be celebrating Chinese New Year with his kids and asked me for his help, I was more than willing to say yes, [...]
Snow Day!!!
I just wanted to write a post marking this tremendous occasion where I Miss S have a Snow Day. My first working day off in Peace Corps that doesn’t involve a conference, illness or anything broken. Now what will I do with this day off, sleep! Related articles Beautiful Desolation (fromheretobulgaria.wordpress.com) It’s like the world exhaled (lostinthechaos.wordpress.com) [...]
Beautiful Desolation
Honestly that is the way I feel sometimes when I look out my window. I feel as though I live in an area of beautiful desolation. Maybe that is just the way that snow makes me feel. I love looking at snow, but winter is the most impractical season. Besides boots, I HATE boots, its [...]
Christmas Vacation the Finale
As midnight hit in Istanbul I was in cloud ten. I couldn’t believe that I was where I was. Staring at this beautiful bridge that crosses the Bosphorus, lit up in purple, green and red. Surrounded on all sides by fireworks laughing and smiling. It was one of these sites that I could never forget [...]
Christmas Vacation Part 4
Now we are only on the 30th and 31st of December of my Christmas Vacation. I know what you are thinking, how long is this gosh darn vacation!!! I am kidding, I hope. Anyway on the my second full day in Istanbul. So day two started off pretty similarly to day one. We realized we [...]
Christmas Vacation Part 3…
As we continue the adventures of two Peace Corps Volunteers we are now on our way to Turkey. Before I left for Knezha I had purchased the tickets to Istanbul and I should have known something would be wrong with those too. I had believed that I had purchased tickets for 8am and when we [...]
Christmas Vacation Part 2
Hello blog readers. Now on to the continuing saga of my Christmas Vacation. Last we left it was the end of Christmas Day. We continue on December 26th. Nancy and I decided to spend one full non-holiday day in Knezha before heading back to Isperih. It was pretty quiet. Nancy and I had coffee with [...]
Christmas Vacation Part one…
Well hello all. I am back in Bulgaria nursing a new set of health problems, but all in all I am well. I returned from Turkey the night of the second and maybe I just need a rest, IDK. Anyway I am going to share the more fun details of my Christmas Vacation and Turkish [...]
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