We finally made it to Bulgaria!!! It took us a two hour bus ride from Philly to JFK, a five hour long wait, an eight hour flight, a three hour layover, a two hour flight and then another two hour bus ride but we are finally here! We are staying in a small skiing town about two hours southeast of Sofia. For the part of the bus ride that I was awake for, it is obvious that this country is beautiful! Everything is so green and the mountains are HUGE! Not like the Appalachain Mountains that I'm used to. We are really high up in the mountains and the road was kind of scary when we were literally driving on the edge of a cliff, but our driver was clearly a professional.
Today was our first full day of training and pretty much everyone is still jetlagged. We had some breakfast, which was delicious (as all the food has been so far) and then we got into why we were here. Then we broke up into small groups to start learning Bulgarian. "Dobre den" means "Good day"...just so you know. We went over a lot of stuff and for the moment I'm confident, but we'll see what happens after a night of sleep. Some of the people had studied a lot before and are pretty good. My roommate, Vaune is one of them but she's been nice in helping me in our down time. After our Bulgarian class, we had lunch and I signed some papers and got my picture taken for my ID badge. Then we broke into groups based on the program we would be doing and talked about the differences between American schools and students and Bulgarian school and students. After that it was more Bulgarian and now it's almost dinner time.
I think the rest of the night will revolve around finishing up some paperwork and making sure I know the Bulgarian alphabet. I'm excited slash nervous for Sunday when we meet and leave with our host families!
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