just got this message in my inbox, from a facebook group I'm a member of: Честит 8-ми Март на всички дами ( Read more... )

A new guy in my office is Bulgarian!

*dies of shock*

He says my Bulgarian is very good, lol. Bulgarians ALWAYS say that, because they have super low standards, as so few foreigners ever study Bulgarian. They're like "you can say more than hello OMG YOUR BULGARIAN IS SO GOOD."

I just got this email from my friend Galya in Bulgaria. Attn call_me_ps.

На 8 - 10.07.2011 г. ще ходя в Румъния - Букурещ на концерт на BON JOVI Не съм мислела,че през живота си ще видя Джон на живо,но ето че стана!Това е подарък за рождения ми ден от братовчед ми.

Като се върна от концерта ще ти пиша.Translation por mi ( Read more... )

I asked twitter if I'd ever written about these things, and apparently I didn't. So I thought I would amuse you with these two wacky aspects of Bulgarski zhivot (Bulgarian life).

1. Techenie. Techenie means, literally, current or flow, but in daily parlance, it usually refers to crossbreezes. If you open two facing windows on a hot day, or a ( Read more... )

But I just want to say something about why I feel so strongly about people using the Roma/Romani/gypsies as some kind of plot device in a fic ( Read more... )

It's Baba Marta! Well, okay, I'm a little early, Baba Marta is tomorrow, but I'm thinking of it now, and my Facebook is already filling up with people wishing each other a happy Baba Marta so I am wishing it to all of you too!

Baba Marta is, dare I suggest, the cutest holiday...in the worldOn March 1, everyone in Bulgaria gives their friends and ( Read more... )

As you probably know, I was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Bulgaria from 2006 to 2008. Peace Corps has three goals. The first is basically to help people who need it. The second is to teach people about the US. And the third is to teach Americans about and be an ambassador for one's host country. This is why Peace Corps is one of those ( Read more... )

I just finished listening to the audiobook of Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime by Heilemann and Halperin. It was really fascinating - it was compiled with hundreds of anonymous sources, so no one is cited. Nevertheless, it certainly has an air of authenticity. If you're interested, I could upload ( Read more... )

I was poking around the internets, like you do, and I ran across the video for "Moi si, dyavole", a Bulgarian hip hop/chalga song by Ustata and Sofi Marinova. omg I had forgotten how offensive this video is! And in so many ways! I'm impressed.

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Enjoy.

It's looking like my petition to do a stats independent study is going to go through ( Read more... )