Karolinka In & Around Bulgaria

I woke up in my bed in Mladosot 1A a neighborhood in Sofia, Bulgaria this morning and I found myself thinking about how lucky I am.  I know that I’ve said this before but really, I am so lucky. This is the fifth time I’ve had a birthday in Bulgaria. I am 32 and living [...]

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I’m getting ready to leave for Cyprus in a couple of hours. We’ve got a six day holiday in Bulgaria thanks to Easter and St George’s Day. I couldn’t be happier. The holiday started on Wednesday but flights were much better today. Anyhow, the weather is Cyprus is supposed to be excellent and I’ve got [...]

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This past week I logged lots of extra hours at work. On Wednesday my club Mock Trial presented a case and I was there until 6 pm. Thursday we had parent-teacher conferences and I was there until 8:15 pm. Friday morning I got up and I was back at school by 7:40. Normally I am [...]

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I lost my Bulgarian debt card, um, a long time ago. I canceled it as soon as I knew it was gone but it’s taken me an embarrassingly long time to replace it. It’s been so long I don’t even want to say how long it’s been. For those of you now dying of curiosity, think months. [...]

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I think it’s finally safe to say that spring is here in Sofia. I know because: I can’t stop sneezing. I no longer need to wear my winter coat. There are strawberries in the grocery store. I wore my ballerina flats to work all of last week without socks. Okay, sure a little old baba [...]

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The longer you live abroad the harder it is to imagine your life at home. That is until one day it isn’t so hard. It started for me this past summer. I went home for my brother’s wedding and I experience my first twinge of what if. What if I lived closer to home? What [...]

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I don’t love Mtel but they happened to be the closest cellphone shop when I first moved to Sofia so by default they became my company. This said, I am not sure if I could choose all over again who I’d go with. So maybe it doesn’t matter. I’ve had a prepaid phone for the [...]

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I had the day off work today because on Sunday morning we administered the ACS entrance exam. As one of my ever positive colleagues said on Friday afternoon: it’s like we have a two and half day weekend!! Still it wasn’t easy to get out of bed on Sunday morning in order to drag myself [...]

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It’s rainy this morning and for some reason I’ve been up since 5:45am. I woke and up and couldn’t go back to bed. So I’ve been up reading the internet, drinking coffee and puttering around my apartment. Mladost in the the rainy early morning seems especially Eastern European–or at least what I imagine when I [...]

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Yesterday as many of you will know was International Women’s Day–those of you State side probably do not know this seeing as we celebrate Mother’s Day in May instead (oh and we also celebrate Father’s Day in June). The tradition in Bulgaria seems to be that men give the women in their lives flowers and then [...]

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