the coriolis effect

I'm at my roomates house in Plovdiv, which is on a winding little street just blocks from (and probably also on top of) Roman ruins, including an unexcavated Colosseum. Language switch- for the first time I'm listening, because I can actually pick out some of the words that are the same in Polish. Although its been hard to stifle the urge to say thank you in Polish...they actually say merci here:)

More hills than I've seen in a long time, Cyrillic for the first time ever, yummy food, hooray hooray...and we've off for a week of mountains and monasteries, and many Bulgarians that I know from school. I still remember, when I found out my sophomore roomie was Bulgarian, pulling out the atlas to figure out where Plovdiv was....