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Sunday. slept till 12:30. woke up to no electricity in my home. dealt with it and moved on with my day; which consisted of eating Thanksgiving leftovers watching a movie and football, and some cleaning.
Monday. Had my first English course with adults. If you want to feel like a fool my advice is to stand in front of a bunch of adults and sing the alphabet song. Wish i would have filmed this. but hey if it helps them learn it then i will do it. After this a couple in my class asked me to get coffee with them. They are very kind and about my age. I asked why they wanted to learn English and their response was for a better job. The husband is a fireman. He wants to do computer/web designing. He has been working as a fireman for 7 years now and he says he hates it. pay is no good and he knows he is very talented at computers and wants to do that. Although you must know English in any jobs one could get with computers. Apparently, its like 50-60 lev for a month of English lessons in Sofia. First class and I already know the purpose is of teaching English. i feel really good about this course
Tuesday.In the morning there was an older gentlemen that came in the office. He's retired and was talked to my boss for awhile and asked what I was doing in Yablanitsa. Hristov explained and then i was invited to a party for the retired folk. They were celebrating Anniversaries and Birthdays. I talked to a couple people for a little bit and found out they want help with the Art Therapy and Music Therapy sessions they have. I told them that I am really interested. One person heared that I studied psychology and art at school- bonus. They asked me to help with Art Therapy. i hope they weren't teasing me when they asked this because that would be incredible to do. They are having a couple more parties- Christmas and New Years parties and want me to come. So i am thinking I will be able to do art therapy stuff with them once the Holidays are over.
I am overwhelmed my friends.
Wednesday.
Wednesday.
Had my first Yoga class this night. Suppose to start last week but nobody showed. Class starts at 5:15. At about 5:30 4 teenage girls eating bagel chips wearing jeans, knee high boots, and shirts that are a little scandalous walk in. cool, i thought. About 5 minutes later another set of 4 teenagers walk in - same thing. They are speaking Bulgarian really fast and to be honest i had no idea what they were saying i just kept saying yes. I decided to start because it was getting awkward just sitting there. I take off my snow boots and turn up the music loud to hope to drown out my embarrassment of the whole situation. I laid down on the floor and did the first exercise. I cannot really explain the exercise fully in Bulgarian so i just say a few words here and there. At first I hear a few giggles because lets be honest Pilate's does look stupid if you have never done it before. My back was facing the girls so i don't really notice if they are doing it right. I wanted them to mimic what i was doing. The next exercise I turn to face them and really it was all so silly. So then I started laughing. It turned out to be a good time. They asked if i was having the same thing the next week which is always a good sign to know if they want to come back.
After this laughing fest i walk outside to see all the girls smoking. hah.Great work out.
After Pilate's I went out with friends i know from town. There is a town about 27 km from here called Teteven and its super nice. My friends have friends in that super nice town and asked if i wanted to come along. They said their friend speaks English so i will have someone to talk to. So we get drinks before we eat at this cozy little restaurant. Talk for about 2.5 hours.(the one who speaks English does not say one word to me until about 10 o'clock that night and she asked me to analyze her. She found out i studied psychology in school and wanted me to tell me about her life. This is why i find psychology to be a joke sometimes). My friends and their friends asked me about the states. They wanted to know about Michigan (they like the Great Lakes), Ohio, my family, what certain words are in English and what have you. we started our night at 6:30 so I'm thinking the latest i will get home is 9 or 10ish. wrong-o. We get in the car about 9 after getting drinks and i tell my friends man that was a good time. thanks for taking me out. Their response- oh we are going to go eat now only for a little bit more time. To make this long story shorter- i get home at midnight.
needless to say it was a good night.
Thursday. kinda dragging my feet. Tired from the night before, the whole week, the weather,Thanksgiving- which was so good. (I have never had so much Carrot Cake in my life. Thanks to whoever made so much because i know i have gained at least 10 pounds this week and i am okay with that.) Every Wednesday and Thursday morning i teach English at the Kindergarten. Last week they were kinda restless and i think its because Christmas is coming soon and they know it. So i decided to review the alphabet, do head, shoulders, knees, and toes, and hokey pokey with them then surprised them with Jingle Bells. I told them to stand up and dance around. They didn't know what to really do so i got in the middle and started you know spinning in circles and grabbed a kid and started dancing. This was incredible. Soon enough other kids started dancing. We listen to Jingle Bells about 6 times. I love Christmas.
Later, Got to talk to good friends on Skype.
Billy, thanks.
Julie, love you.
Friday. the only days i am really at work is on Monday and Fridays. I am there from 8:30ish (i say that loosely) till 5. Nothing for me to be doing at work so i mess around. get on the Internet, walk around town for the sake of being out of the office, read, get on facebook for awhile- I get bored easily. Today was not different- This morning I went to the Bazaar for a good while. bought things, talked to people i know and got some coffee.(i know what your thinking. The lining on her liver has to be gone by now and you may be right. ) Anyways, when i got back to the office there was a package from my Dad. It was full of books (for me and for the kindergartners),booze and movies - including Christmas Vacation (my dad and mines tradition).
hilarious- kids books and booze. thanks Dad, you're the best.
Saturday. Reading kids books in English to the kiddos. I am going to speak only English. After this hopeful success I am going to Pravets. Apparently there is a sauna in Pravets. Some of the other Peace Corps volunteers girls are going to have a girly night with the sauna and "awesomely bad movies." That is a literal quote.
I really like life right now.
And Yes, Jules I really am happy, thank you.
