It’s Holy Week. For the past six years, minus my time in Bulgaria, this has meant work, and this year is no exception. I have eight church gigs this week, and I am happy to have them. I was perusing the interwebs looking for steady church jobs and was surprised at how many websites I [...]
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Does this concern anybody else?
Posted in America, religion on March 30, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Bulgar-sick
Posted in America, Bulgaria, nostalgia, readjustment on March 26, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Amanda just wrote a beautiful post describing spring in Bulgaria and taking the train through my village recently. An excerpt: I spent the day riding a train back from a conference earlier this week. When I passed Andrea’s old village en route home, I gazed upon the green green hills rolling into the mountains punctuated [...]
Posted in America, Life!, nostalgia, Peace Corps, readjustment on March 21, 2010 | 3 Comments »
I realized the other day that the B23 COS conference is coming up soon (translation to normal-person speak: what’s left of the group with whom I went to Bulgaria gets together at a hotel to overwhelm the hotel staff with loud, belligerent Americans and sometimes sit in a conference room, using lots of words like, [...]
What they don’t tell you is a lot.
Posted in America, Bulgaria, readjustment on March 7, 2010 | 3 Comments »
There was a certain sense of satisfaction and accomplishment at the end of each of my days in Bulgaria, even the worst ones. When my final school year started in September, I started crossing the previous day off in permanent marker when I woke up, as if to remind myself that I had done it. [...]
Posted in America, Bulgaria, Holidays, vibes on March 2, 2010 | 3 Comments »
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves. We must die to one life before we can enter another. -Anatole France Belated Baba Marta (Grandmother March) greetings to all. This Bulgarian holiday, which marks the beginning of spring, is definitely my favorite [...]
Posted in America, Bulgaria, Peace Corps on February 12, 2010 | 4 Comments »
One of the ways I killed time the past few years was reading Peace Corps blogs, both blogs of my friends and blogs from volunteers around the world whom I’d never met. As my time in Bulgaria trudged on and I became more bitter and disillusioned, I kept telling myself that I needed to stop [...]
The Superest of Bowls
Posted in America, observations, winter on February 9, 2010 | 1 Comment »
And other random thoughts. I generally take little interest in the Super Bowl, unless the Steelers are playing, and yesterday was no exception. If I had not been in America, in fact, I probably would not have known that yesterday was Super Bowl Sunday. I spent the first half of the game at the Saxon [...]
Skillz
Posted in America, Bulgaria, readjustment on February 5, 2010 | 2 Comments »
I’ve been thinking a lot about jobs lately. Namely, how to get one. The Country Director was kind enough to hook me up with the COS packet, which includes a career resource CD. Thus, I am forced to sit with a blank word document in front of me and try to figure out what skills [...]
