Tuesday, March 20, 2007

What a crazy morning

The day started very interesting for me. On this day the bus drivers decided to go on a strike. Of corse I and my friends didn't know that and waited for half an our the bus to go to work. When we saw it's not comming we had to walk for 20 min to the train station and of course we were a little late for work. As a result of the strike there were no busses at my workplace (a bus station) and there were less people I could give newspapers to. (I'm not sure if I mentioned in a previous post that my job is to deliver newspapers to the people in the bus station)
But then it got better. I was interviewed by a radio journalist about the strike and it's effect on my job. I always like when I apper in front of public :P And some time later two guys from a different newspaper company came to me and said they were impressed by my work and how smily and friendly I was to the people :) They wanted me to join their company and deliver newspapers for them. And they promised me a raise of 10 kronas per hour (2-3 levs). They seemed very nice and from the next mont I'll leave my job and work for them. For such kind of low-qualified job I'm loyal only to the money.
Sometimes such things make your day and make you feel happy.
I liked this morning :)

Friday, March 16, 2007

Tour de Chambre

Do you know of the fraternities (large pacts of students; the name is with greek letters ) in the US movies? They have all these traditions and nice (drinking) games (something similar to what we have in AIESEC) Well guess what - we also have an inrteresting tradition in our dorms. It is called "Tour de Chamber" and takes place each semester. The main idea is to get drunk, everybody gets drunk!
Let me tell you what's it about. First we start with a dinner. All the new students in the dorms have to cook a delicious dinner for everybody. And it is a theme party - we have to chose a theme and everybody should be dressed according to this theme. We also decorate the room according to it. We are devided into 3 kitchens and each kitchen has a different theme. Ours is 70's disko :) After the dinner all the people from the kitchen start a tour around the rooms. In each room the host should offer a glass shot of hard alcohol. You can imagine what is to go to 20 rooms and have a shot in each of them especially when you have wormed up with wine and beer during the dinner! It's gonna be a total mess. Especially in the last rooms. Unfortunately mine is one of the last :( I hope it survives the tour. After the drinking we all go to Kotlers (our students disko club) and continue with the drinking (whoever still can :)) In the morning we'll see who survived :)
I think I'm really gonna like this tradition :) Hahaha I'll show them the Bulgarian way of drinking!
So....
Ready
Steady
Drink!!!!!

P.S. I forgot to tell you that Tour de Chamber is today (!) so now I'll get dressed and go drinking! Wish me luck :)

Monday, March 12, 2007

Summer is comming :)

Hello from sunny Denmark!
Today was one of the nicest and warm days since I've been here. It must have been around 20 degrees. The weather was lovely and I spent most of the day out. It's nice to see many people going out just to enjoy the sun :) It's also nice to see many danish girls wearing less and less clothers ;) I can imagine what's going to be in the summer :) Who said that danish girls are big and ugly?! I quite like them.
Another interesting thing today was my bike trip to the nearby park. It was nice to rimind the good day in USA when I was used to my bike :) And because of this trip I finaly managed to see the raindeers that the park is famous of. There was a whole herd of them just passing by. They seemed to be familiar with the people because they weren't scared at all. I liked that touch with the nature. It makes you feel more relaxed and cheerful :)
Looking forward to leave the winter behind and welcome to lovely spring and summer!

Thursday, March 8, 2007

Happy holiday dear ladies!

Well, it's 8th of March again - the day dedicated fully to the women. The day that each girl, woman, mother should feel special and loved. Some women don't like this holiday and fell ofended that their loved ones pay attention to them only on that day. That they should be loved and respected each day. Well, I agree to that but I think it's not the holiday's fault. I think that this is a nice occasion for me and for a lot of men to be creative and to show their love and gratefulness to the women in their live :) For sure this is one of the nicest international holidays and it's meant to bond people and spread happiness.
I want to wish a lot of happiness and many wonderful momments, shared with their loved ones to my mother and all my female friends! Be sure that I miss you and hug you all in my thoughts!

Saturday, March 3, 2007

I want to congratulate all the Bulgarians with one of our brightest holidays - The Bulgarian National Holiday! Exactly 129 years ago, on 3rd of March 1878 was sighed the treaty of San Stefano with which Bulgaria was liberated and appeared once again on the Europe map with all its national and ethnical territories. As Bulgarians we celebrate this memorable day each year with pride and happiness.
I can say that this holiday is even more important for all the Bulgarians abroad (like me) who can once again touch emotionally with our country and long for the day they'll be back home.
Well, what is true that Bulgarians like to gather at such holidays, so of course there was something going on even here in distant Denmark. Yesterday there was a cocktail in the Bulgarian embassy where all the Bulgarians could gather to celebrate the holiday, as well as Baba Marta, and to meet with all the other Bulgarians here. Of course I and Petyo went there. It was great. We met the embassador and the military attache. The last one, colonel Iliev, appered to be from my beloved home city - Shumen :) They were all very friendly and promissed to help us if we needed to. On the 24th of May there is going to be another cocktail. For sure I'll be there again :)

Of course there was another event these days - Baba Marta - the famous Bulgarian tradition/holiday when everybody gives "martenitsi" to friends and family. I could imagine Sofia, all red and white, with thousands of small shops for martenitsi :) Of course I was prepared and took some martenitsi with me from home. I gave one to all the Bulgarians here and also to all my roommates in Anex(my house). They all liked it very much which made me really happy :) Yet now when I look at my martenitsa I smile and think of all the people back home I'd like to give one.

I wish health and happiness to all of you during these wonderful holidays!!!