Youth Day

Yesterday the municipality celebrated youth day with all the kids in the municipality in the soccer stadium. Kids were bused in from the other villages in the municipality and they had a afternoon of fun and games. The mayor, dep mayor, and secretary (my counterpart Dori) were there and they gave little speeches. I also had to give a speech, which actually went pretty well considering I hate talking in front of people and I had to do it in Bulgarian. The fact that they gave me flowers for it probably helped.

They had two hora troops perform the children group and the youth group. Dori's two kids danced, Stella in the youth group and Nikki in the younger one. Each village, that had enough kids, had a soccer team of 8 and they played 30min games tournament style. Avren made it to the final! We lost by 1 though... Between each game they had little activities for the other kids to do so they wouldnt get bored. The had three legged race and musical chairs.
It went pretty late but it was a good afternoon and I got to meet a lot of new people. Like the camera guy for the municipality, Petco, he wants to have my birthday party in the church. I also met two 16yr old American twins who live in Dubravino, another village in the municipality, Sarah took my number and said they will invite me over for Mexican food. I'm super stoked for that.