Over the weekend I went into Varna (which was mildly difficult since my morning bus had stopped running due to the fact that there was a foot and a half of snow on Friday and I had the day off work, but I got there none-the-less out of the kindness of a fellow municipal employee who drove me in because he was going too) to hang out with friends before we all went out separate ways for Christmas, and to do some last minute shopping.
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| My front door Friday morning |
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| My stairs |
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| My stairs after I dug them out |
I will be spending the 24th here in Avren with Dori my counterpart and her family, of which her mother is my landlady. So I will essentially be at home, just upstairs. I will be bringing Mince Pie to that dinner since I got a jar of Mixed Fruit Mincemeat form Marie at the pub. I've never had it, but its a traditional British thing for Christmas, so it shouldn't be awful. On the 25th, if it is so possible, I will be going to Varna to spend Christmas with other volunteers. Some of which will travel across the country to get there, so that will be nice because I only have to go 30 min to see people I never get to see. For that I am bringing green beans and peppermint bark. Also, we have organized a secret santa.
It was for all this I had to shop for on Saturday. I found out there were no candy canes in Bulgaria, so I bought very hard round unappealing looking peppermint candy to crush up and put on top of the bark. I made a test batch, they taste fine, even if they dont look festive.
I also played in the lit up Christmas village in the center of Varna, it gets dark early these days.
"I've never had it, but its a traditional British thing for Christmas, so it shouldn't be awful." This made me laugh!
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