I just survived the busiest week I’ve had in ages, which ended with my sight-reading an Easter Mass because one of the musicians got sick. Now I have to get my butt in gear and start seriously practicing recital music for a composition major’s senior recital in three weeks. Rehearsals start tomorrow. I hope my [...]
Archive for the ‘Holidays’ Category
Happy Easter!
Posted in Holidays, nostalgia on April 4, 2010 | 2 Comments »
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 [...]
Happenings
Posted in Bulgaria, Holidays, horo, useless advice on December 9, 2009 | 1 Comment »
This is not going to be a particularly cohesive entry. Yesterday was the teachers meeting, which left me feeling simultaneously inspired and defeated. Inspired because my director initiated a discussion about implementing more interactive teaching methods (i.e. group work, projects, games) and people actually participated in the discussion. Defeating because, while the idea of teaching [...]
You’ll Shoot Your Eye Out
Posted in Bulgaria, conversations, Holidays on December 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I am in the Christmas spirit today. Several of the class teachers have had the students decorate the rooms with lights and little trees and snowflake cutouts, there are lessons in the textbook about Christmas traditions, and we are singing songs and generally taking it easy with the “real” studying. I don’t know how it [...]
Post-Holiday
Posted in Bulgaria, conversations, dentists, Holidays on November 30, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Thanksgiving was great. Lots of good food, homemade wine and rakia, and the company of wonderful people. Unrelated and random news… Prior to celebrating, I got a flu shot (not so interesting) and went to the dentist (infinitely more amusing). Our dentist’s office is located in a five-star hotel in Sofia. The whole place feels [...]
Giving Thanks
Posted in Bulgaria, Holidays on November 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Happy Thanksgiving, all! I probably won’t have a chance to blog tomorrow, so I thought I’d wish you all a good day a little in advance. I will be working tomorrow, but I’ll celebrate this weekend with my friends and I am pretty excited for feasting/togetherness. Thanksgiving number two in Bulgaria is already shaping up [...]
Posted in Bulgaria, Holidays, school on October 30, 2009 | 5 Comments »
So Halloween was a success, all things considered. Much like most things I do here, I never know if it’s gonna bomb or be a hit until about ten minutes before. Today was not much different. My director was cool enough to allow the kids to come to school in their costumes. I really didn’t [...]
All Hallows’ Eve Eve
Posted in Holidays on October 29, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I am drinking wine and stuffing 100 treat bags with candy and plastic spider rings my mom sent me (thanks, Liz!). I have a witch hat, my witch clothes (black skirt and shirt) are clean and drying on my radiator. My counterpart all of a sudden, at the last minute, got really into this whole [...]
