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culture shock

June 22nd, 2005 by bulgaria1020.

Bulgaria. I’m feeling a lot better today than i have been the past few days. The stress of being here was really starting to get to me. Yesterday an elderly lady came to me and stephanie and told us that we should be speaking in Bulgaria..ummm. Unsure how to reply to such a ridiculous comment we [...]

rough day

June 21st, 2005 by bulgaria1020.

yesterday was a rough day. I woke up in the foulest mood ever and i dont know why. I sat through morning classes and i just could not shake it. At lunch break i went home and then took a nap. I slept a little late and decided to just skip class. I know that [...]

Roma in BG

June 10th, 2005 by bulgaria1020.

So i usually post the fantastic but i think today i’ll post some of the grimy stuff about Bulgaria. Bulgaria has a huge Roma population. They are a people that immigrated to eastern europe from India a long time ago. The language that they speak is closely related to Sandskrit. Girls in Roma communities usually marry [...]

first impression of permantent site

May 18th, 2005 by bulgaria1020.

The staff at my new site are great. All the teachers except for one are women. They dont speak a lot of english so i have a feeling that either i get my language training in high speed or i’m totally screwed! But it will come eventually. I’m doing pretty good. The teachers were surprised [...]

bus mishap

May 12th, 2005 by bulgaria1020.

So all PCV’s are in different towns. There are about 4-5 pcv’s in everytown. Hub is when we all get together for 2 days and have technical training about saftey, teaching, health, and various other things. We just did that monday and tuesday. It was really nice to see everyone again. We had so much fun [...]