Karolinka In & Around Bulgaria

I’d like to start off with this: today’s blog post is for my friend R.’s mom. Thanks for sharing her with me for the week. We’ve been having a great time. My MoM and I picked up R. in Pasco on Friday afternoon about 1pm. Pasco is about an hour car ride away from Walla [...]

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It’s official, I think my dAd loves me and so does my MoM. They picked me up at that Walla Walla airport yesterday at 9pm. My MoM wore her Bulgarian alphabet t-shirt so that I’d know when one she was. My dAd brought his camera. I got home yesterday at 9pm after traveling for nearly [...]

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I just looked at my calendar and realized that I’ll be home one week and one day from now. Sure I am going to be spending a ton of time flying–almost a day but I’m getting more and more excited about the thought of home. Well, the other one. The first one. There are four [...]

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Well, I’m back in Sofia alright but I am not actually dreaming of Walla Walla. You see I’ve been awake since 3am. I made myself stay in bed until 3:30am. I mean a girl’s gotta sleep in when she can. But when this turns into obsessing over the first day of school back from Christmas [...]

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I know, I know. I’ve been very bad at updating this blog. I am afraid that it might be this way for a few more days as I am traveling back to Sofia today and part of Sunday. Then I’ll be teaching and recovering from jet lag for a few days as well. I guess [...]

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Whatever dreams or visions I had of Christmas this year, they weren’t what actually happened. I didn’t hear reindeer on the roof or Santa’s jolly ho, ho, ho. There were no sugarplum fairies or snowflakes. I thought I’d be home for Christmas but then I ended up in Sofia on the actual day. But as [...]

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I made a big batch of blackeye peas yesterday because when cooked and served on New Year’s Day blackeye peas are supposed to ensure a prosperous and lucky new year.  It’s a Southern tradition but why shouldn’t I have a little prosperity and luck in the new year even if I grew up in the [...]

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Well, I am in Walla Walla! I made it here on the 26th but I’ve been on such a screwy schedule that I haven’t turned on my computer until now. I spent a whole day traveling. Then I slept for nearly 12 hours.  The truth is I’ve been kind of a waste of space for [...]

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My blog has been feeling rather disjointed recently. I guess this happens when you don’t have as much time to write as you’d like because your spending all of it eating, sleeping, sight-seeing, drinking and traveling.  I logged a lot of hours on airplanes, trains and buses this summer. But I also think that it [...]

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My dAd announced this trip that he thought he needed a blog. My original thought was: Um, okay. Followed by: Awesome. My dAd is going to start a blog. Now I think that my dAd is pretty good with email.  That’s about all you need these days to write a blog. But much beyond that [...]

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