Posts Tagged With: European Union
I am Going to Ruse Tomorrow!!!
I’m excited, but a little nervous for the kids. Suzie, another english teacher, and I are taking 6 kids to Ruse tomorrow to take a test called YES! And if they can jump through all the tests and make it through all the hoops, they will get to spend a semester in America. For these [...]
More More More, How do you Like it?
All I can say after this week is SHEESH! What an emotional, busy, and draining week. No wonder I can’t put my brain to sleep at night. Oh yeah add not being able to fall asleep at a decent hour to all of this and you have how this week has been treating me. You [...]
Happy Bulgarian Unification Day
Bulgarian Unification Day is celebrated on September 6th every year to celebrate the unification of Eastern Rumelia and Bulgaria in 1885 creating the current national borders in Bulgaria. This holiday is important because Bulgaria lost a lot of land due to Turkish occupation and they were able to fight for this land and win against [...]
Now with My Underwear Flapping in the Breeze…
So today’s report from Isperih is as follows. Today was my second trip to Rasgrad. These trips are so I can get my Litchna Carta. A Litchna Carta is an identity card in Bulgaria, if you are in the country for a certain period of time you need one. Any how we were there forever [...]
I got Internet Today!!!!!
Sorry I know normally not something to title your blog post about but I am happy to again have the ability to contact the rest of humanity. So I swore in as a Peace Corps volunteer on July 23rd in a big and lovely ceremony. This link here is a news story done about our [...]
So What is it with the PST Mood Swings?
Seriously what is it with the last few weeks of PST and pissy people. It just seems as though we are all a bit ready to just get moving, as though we are stuck in a place that we aren’t sure what we should be doing. As though we are doing something that may or [...]
Sometimes we all need to be спокоен
Now I say this in Bulgarian because quite simply спокоен is the most common word we as volunteers here. It is a word that means a lot of things, but to us it means relax, chill out, calm down, take it easy. This word reminds us that we are in a country that doesn’t really care [...]
Alright, I to was too Lazy to write my end of the Month Blog yesterday
So June was I don’t know what to say other than Wow, and glad that’s over let’s keep going now. Some of the most exciting and thrilling moments of Peace Corps happened last month. There where moments of just being outside and looking us at the stars at 2 am and thinking how amazing it [...]
World Cup and Time
So as you all know I am in a European country, and there is this, well let’s call it a thing called the World Cup. Well it’s not called the World Cup here in Bulgaria it’s actually called something else but I just can’t seem to catch its Bulgarian name. Anyhow the world stops where [...]
As the Third Week of Training Comes to a Close…
I can’t believe that I have been in Bulgaria for almost three weeks. It’s pretty crazy how fast time has actually flown. Things are good here. We secondary teachers had our first cluster and learned more teaching skills. The group in my town had an interesting cross cultural experience with graduation. basically graduation is a party [...]
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