new news

So a few new things have surfaced.

I have some friends at the school now, I go almost every afternoon to play with the kids.

When it gets colder and we can no longer be outside, I'm hoping they will still like me enough to play my slightly educational environmental games. I'm going to trick them into learning...they wont know it at all.

I also found out that the town holiday (thats normal here, all towns have a holiday where people get together, usually at the community center Читалище, and celebrate their town being there) is St Petko day (St Peter). Bulgarian's are normally named after saints, or a name derived from a saint. So when that saint has their "day" all people named after him/her celebrate it, its called your Name Day. The most well known name days in the West wold be those for St Valentine and St Patrick. We, although, celebrate them in a completely different manner. Anyway, all saints have a day and the church in town is dedicated to St Petko so everyone celebrates the town that day by feasting together and going to the church. This day is October 14th, what a fine day for a town wide celebration, I could think of nothing I would rather do that day.

I joined the dance group here in town. So far I'm still learning and I need a lot of practice. They're really good. BUT when they got invited to dance in Turkey in October they still asked me to come with them since I am technically part of it and all. Its still technically an unofficial trip since all international travel must be okayed by the PC, but I have a tentative yes, pending a submission of a international travel request form. So, I will be going to Edirne (Одрин) by bus from the 16th to the 18th of October. Not a long trip, but its not that far. Just over the border really.