Wednesday, August 24, 2005
According to Bulgaria, I'm fat.
But aside from extreme undersizing of clothing, its a lovely country. Today we visited the beautiful Bachkovo Monastery, and wandered the streets of Plovdiv with folks from school. Yesterday, more of the mountains, and I sounded out the first ever thing I'd read in Cyrillic only to find myself saying "sn...ack....ba...r. snack bar?" Oh well.
I also tried the local version of Rutger's dearly departed fat cat- a kebab with the fries tossed in the pita for good measure. We went to restaurant (with absinthe on the menu) and the lights went out; used to the DR, I expected the generator to kick in any minute. Funnily enough, less is more...unlike my dearly underdeveloped country, blackouts aren't common here, we had to stick to salad in the dark (and dinner lingered 3 hours anyway. impressive!)
But aside from extreme undersizing of clothing, its a lovely country. Today we visited the beautiful Bachkovo Monastery, and wandered the streets of Plovdiv with folks from school. Yesterday, more of the mountains, and I sounded out the first ever thing I'd read in Cyrillic only to find myself saying "sn...ack....ba...r. snack bar?" Oh well.
I also tried the local version of Rutger's dearly departed fat cat- a kebab with the fries tossed in the pita for good measure. We went to restaurant (with absinthe on the menu) and the lights went out; used to the DR, I expected the generator to kick in any minute. Funnily enough, less is more...unlike my dearly underdeveloped country, blackouts aren't common here, we had to stick to salad in the dark (and dinner lingered 3 hours anyway. impressive!)
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