I just finished this incredible book called Three Cups of Tea. Go read it.

Really there is not much to say but I wanted to keep up with this thing as a way of communication so that you wont have to ask questions like “so what do you do on a daily basis?”

Well, this week…

Monday- Had my morning coffee with the co-workers and had a “meeting.” Went to Teteven (a village close by) to seal the deal for our local amateur theater group to perform there on Wednesday. Afternoon, sat and read about 6 chapters of that book (I have been averaging about 4 chapters a day at work)

Tuesday- Again, coffee and read that book all day. Every Tues. and Thurs. I have tutoring at 4 with an older woman who does not know any English. She does know Russian and Italian so that should count for something, right?

Wednesday- Coffee then went to the Kindergarten to teach 5 year olds English. They were awesome. When I walked in the room they were all so quiet and were ready to learn. So I introduce myself and then I taught them you know hello, how are you, things of this nature. There is no black board so they repeated everything I said. I had no idea what to teach them so I kinda just picked things up around the room and said this is a chair and so on. After about 5 minutes I thought they would get really bored with that so I asked one of them so pick out something in the room and I would tell them what it was. After one kid did this they all wanted to do it and it was the cutest thing to watch. I was there for about 30 minutes and before I left every one of the kids ran to me to give me a hug. Love it!

After that, went back to the Chitaliste and read that book. At about 4 went to Teteven with the theatre group. I went because my boss is one of the actors… Play ended at about 9 then we ate at a restaurant. That was one of the longest dinners but it was a lot of fun. The group is an older crowd but there was a 17 yr. old boy who is in the group and is studying English so he helped a little bit with the conversation. The guy sitting next to me found it interesting that I studied Psychology at a University and asked me questions about it. We had a small chat then the conversation led into politics and I kinda stopped the conversation and played the “I don’t understand” card because really I don’t understand Bulgarian politics. From what I hear there is about 100 different political parties and a lot of history that I have yet to learn.

Thursday- Again, coffee and went back to the Kindergarten. I teach 7- year olds this day. The teacher is younger and knows a little bit of English and has been teaching her students. We sang the alphabet and they now know how to introduce themselves in English. They taught me a game Oh! And I now have a boyfriend! His name is Christiyan and he has the brightest blue eyes. After class ended he walked up to me and said hello my name is Christiyan. I am 6 years old. Will you be my girlfriend? And gave me a kiss on the cheek. Oh man how could I refuse?

After that, went back to work and read the rest of that book.

Friday- I am at work right now. Had my morning coffee and waiting to go to the Bazar. Bazar is a big deal in this town. It’s an outdoor fresh food market type thing. A lot of stands to choose from what vegetables you want and its typically cheaper than buying these veggies at the store.