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An American in Bulgaria: May 2012
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An American in Bulgaria. All Good Things Must Come to an End. Visitors and Counting Down. Today marks the beginning of my final 30 days in Bulgaria. There are no words to describe all of the experiences I've had this year, and just how much they've impacted my life and my person, but in the next few weeks, I'm going to give it a try, so stay tuned for that. And not just the fairytale I had been feeding him. On the heels of my dad's exit came the entrance of temporary Skopje resident Cassidy. Her stay...
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An American in Bulgaria: April 2012
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An American in Bulgaria. All Good Things Must Come to an End. My bags are on their way to being packed, and my dad and I are hitting the road in about an hour. This is the last time I'll bid farewell to Pennsylvania before I come back to the States for good. So I've been doing that, and as I've gotten better and better at it, the overall quality of the relationships that I've cultivated and maintained has- surprise! Risen, and dramatically so. But what this weekend- and, really, this entire week back at ...
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An American in Bulgaria: This Post is Not Entitled "The Final Countdown"
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An American in Bulgaria. All Good Things Must Come to an End. This Post is Not Entitled "The Final Countdown". But it started to hit me this week that I have, as of yesterday, two weeks left in Bulgaria. 13 days from now, I will be leaving this good land. This will be the last post of this blog's typical quotidian, mundane nature before I turn it over to my alter ego, who, despite remaining nameless, specializes in sentimental and poetic writing. But, before we go down that road, I'll leave you to your p...
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An American in Bulgaria: It's a Holiday in Bulgaria
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An American in Bulgaria. All Good Things Must Come to an End. It's a Holiday in Bulgaria. With apologies to the Dead Kennedys. Yesterday was Ден на Съединението, Unification Day. (Note: I actually meant for this to be done by yesterday. Sorry about that.). Before we set out on our hike in earnest, though, we made a stop by the Church of St. Nicholas, a tiny Orthodox church dating from the 11th (! The Author under the falls. L - R: Greg, the Author, and Kyril in totally-not-posed positions under the falls.
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An American in Bulgaria: On the Eve of Travel
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An American in Bulgaria. All Good Things Must Come to an End. On the Eve of Travel. Tomorrow my journey begins. Surprisingly, I don't have a whole lot to say right now, at least not much of substance. Or, nothing that would really capture my feelings adequately. I'm excited to go. Scared. If we want to be honest with each other (And why wouldn't we? We've known each other for a few hours already), I'm probably more scared than excited. Visa issues? Unresolved. Language capabilities? Much) has been writte...
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An American in Bulgaria: January 2012
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An American in Bulgaria. All Good Things Must Come to an End. Istanbul, not Constantinople. This time with apologies to They Might Be Giants. We took the opportunity to rest up, engage in various frivolities, and prepare to head out to dinner. Dining out has generally been a genial and pleasant experience here in Sofia, and this would prove to be no exception. The act of getting to the given arena of consumption has likewise typically proven to be of minimal tsuris. The next day dawned much too early for...
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An American in Bulgaria: Reset
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An American in Bulgaria. All Good Things Must Come to an End. On Thursday, I interviewed Kremena Stancheva, one of the featured singers of Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares. To celebrate the end of this long. At any rate, we stayed the weekend at a little for-rent apartment complex in Byala, a resort town of moderate size located on the coast halfway between Varna and Burgas. Most of us arrived on Friday afternoon and spent a few hours resting up from our travels before making dinner and having a not-craz...
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An American in Bulgaria: Thessaloniki, Passover, Lazaruvden, Tsvetnitsa
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An American in Bulgaria. All Good Things Must Come to an End. Thessaloniki, Passover, Lazaruvden, Tsvetnitsa. I apologize for the fact that this is two days late in coming (my endeavor being to publish over weekends), but in my defense, it was kind of an eventful week, and my normal three-day window for starting, developing, and finishing these well-copy-edited, insightful articles was pushed back. But instead of rambling on with another tired excuse, let's just cut right to the chase. This would be the ...
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An American in Bulgaria: The Year in Review, Part 1: The People
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An American in Bulgaria. All Good Things Must Come to an End. The Year in Review, Part 1: The People. Part 1 in a 3-part retrospective of the year I've spent in Bulgaria. When I arrived in Bansko in August, I knew nobody. I was. That's not to say that I haven't witnessed, and even been party to, genuine mistreatment in some instances. Jerks exist in every society, and Bulgaria is no exception. But the concept of cultural relativity is that values and norms in a society are, by definition, right. I random...
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An American in Bulgaria: March 2012
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An American in Bulgaria. All Good Things Must Come to an End. Forging Ahead, Comfort Zones, Changes. It's been another one of those weeks. But there was only enough material to last a couple of days, so I finally made my way, along with my adviser, over to the archives of the Institute of Art Studies, where I first had to get set up. Which meant having to explain myself and ask for help. Not typically a problem for me anymore, except:. But it was rewarding to have the roles finally be reversed, for the o...
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