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Belitsa
Travel Blogs from Belitsa, Bulgaria
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Dancing Bears Rescue Park
... , in June of 2007, these last 3 bears were transferred to the park and there are now (officially) no dancing bears in Bulgaria. The park tries to provide the bears with a natural environment that is suited to each species. It is the largest park of ...
a day in the life
... has a five minute quiz on what we studied the week before. This is my strategy to make sure they come on time, since in Bulgaria there's no such thing as detentions or other discipline measures. If they come more than five minutes late they fail the quiz, ...
My couchsurf guests
... , and hosted some cool travellers when I was living in Sevilla. Within a couple weeks of eachother I had 2 CS guests come through Belitsa and stay with me in my little apartment, Will from England and Hillary from the States. They had a pretty good ...
Permanent Site Visit!!
... really funny. After school I saw the Belitsa museum, which i thot was really impressive especially for such a small town. Apparently Belitsa's other PCV, an environmental PCV who served from 2002-2004, worked a lot with the museum. Next we went and ...
verona's name day
this weekend was verona's name day, and the name day of her cousin, vera. it was a good evening of drinking and food, and of course more horo. by the way, my friends are really into my digital camera, especially the video clips. they always take lots of ...
Birthday in Belitsa
... to remember. There is also a large Roma community, and i got the impression that they aren't as marganilized as in many places in Bulgaria. It's true they mostly live together in a section of town. But on the other hand in the museum they highlight 2 Roma ...
end of the first semester
... and live in my town so my board and i can get a ride whenever we went. Bansko is supposed to be the best ski resort in bulgaria, there are about 20 slopes and real chair lifts unlike the hand tow things which don't work with a snowboard, so it should be a ...
Summer Day Camp
Leading up to the 2nd week of June I met regularly with 3 of my colleagues (Ana, Dora, and Mehmed) and my friend Ana, who teaches at the other school, to plan a week long summer day camp for the primary school kids. The planning process went pretty ...
one week at post
... some optional classes at the school for my summer project, they start tomorrow, so more on that later. basically i'm just really loving belitsa, when i walk down the street a lot of adults say hello (in bulgarian) and a lot of kids say hello in ...
day 2 in belitsa
... very fast. There's not only a language barrier but 10 years between us. i think i'm just feeling a bit lonely and once i make some more friends, i'll totally realize how great dora is as a counterpart and just as a generally helpful person in ...
a new HC guest
... , because i see my town through thier eyes and remember how much i like it here. guido had rented a car for his 2 weeks in bulgaria, so the first night he was here we took my friends ana and vlado and drove to bansko to see one night of the International ...
Bulgarian Holiday
... , and all the groups were great. I wowed everyone with my horo dancing skills during one song. Afterwards we had a long lunch Bulgaria style at a local restaurant, lots of food and rakia, and lots of singing and horo dancing once the little girls brought ...
Retreat in Semkovo
... i talk to other pcvs from my group their reaction often is, wow, you have people your age in your town? All over Bulgaria unemployment is a big problem, and the towns are shrinking fast as everyone especially kids my age move to the cities to find jobs. ...
First day at Permanent Site
... it's kinda cozy. What i was worried most about was that it would be an oven during the summer, but it's not, at least not today. Belitsa so far is MUCH cooler than kocherinovo has been the last few weeks, which makes sense cause we're a bit higher in the ...
Barbecue in Belitsa
... not to be a big baby. But basically my friends all went to the sea without me, I wasn't allowed to go because Peace Corps Bulgaria doesnt let volunteers in the first 3 months at site travel during the weeks, in fact we only have one weekend free to travel ...
First Day of School
These next few entries are way late, i know!! i dont know what my problem is, its not like i'm busy over here. Anyway, the school year began on the 15th of September, as it does every year. I really like their attitude about it - they consider it a ...
Suhoto Ezero (Dry Lake)
This weekend we took a more adventurous hike up into the Rila mountains. we drove up to Semkovo, the mountain resort above my town, and walked from there. There were 5 of us - me, one of my best friends here Ana, her brother Vlado, her best friend Vlado ...
summer classes
thot i'd check in and let everyone know how things are going in belitsa. basically, they are great. my second week here i started summer classes, which will be my summer project. the school organized 2 classes for me, one for primary school kids and one ...
Saturday in Belitsa
I spent this afternoon at my friend's assen's house with 4 of my Bulgarian friends watching an old vidoetape of their highschool graduation and graduate's ball (their version of the prom.) We were pretty silly. I learned a new horo. Here are some ...
Vapeshko/Vapeshkite Lake
... a great weekend on Sunday by going for another hike in the Rila mountains. This time I went with Tsveti, one of the students in Belitsa who speaks perfect English. She studies in a neighboring town and we often meet to practice her English. She also is my ...
Finally enjoying my mountains
During my first summer in Belitsa my biggest mistake was not spending enough time in the mountains, especially hiking. so i started talking it up with my friends this spring, and Ana and I made our first short trip this weekend. We just headed up into the ...
Minority Issues in Belitsa
... the car with a friend and he pointed out 2 Roma people on the road and said, [these are Bulgarian gypsies. These are Bulgaria's African Americans.] I broke my own 'oberserver/non judgmental' role and told him that was really stupid and not to say it any ...
Christmas Banquets in Belitsa
... class for them one evening a week after the vacation. On Friday night was the banquet for my school. It was what you would expect in Bulgaria - salad served at 7:30, dinner at 10:30, dessert at 12:30, with lots of horo dancing in between. ...
American (Italian) dinner party
People often ask me what kind of food we eat in America, and it's really hard to explain. I just keep telling them that because people in America come from every part of the world we eat food from all over the world too. Not only at restaurants, but what ...
more Romanian penpals
On the last day of class with my 6th graders we wrote some more letters to their Romanian penpals. we also spent about 45 minutes making a poster using pictures that their teacher (also a peace corps volunteer) had emailed me, and wrote about the ...
Rosi's birthday
Rosi is one of my 3 close friends here in Belitsa - the other 2 are Gosho and Assen. On her birthday Rosi had a group of us over to her house. It was a typical bulgarian evening, the only thing missing was a horo. First we ate salady foods for over 3 ...
March traditions
... do with Bulgarian Independence. As far as I can tell there are about 5 different dates which celebrate Bulgarian Indepence, since Bulgaria was under several empires and because different areas became free at different dates. It was a night of folk dancing ...
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