Today I decided to uptade my blog because I don't like my last post to be more than a week old. So what should I write about?
Maybe I should tell you about my wonderful trip to Stockholm, but then words are not enough to describe this really amazing city and how much fun I had on the trip! My advise is you should definitely see this city.
Maybe I should tell you about my stay in Tivoli - the famous Danish amusement park, but maybe instead you should just go to Sofia Land or whatever amusement park is close to you and have a day of fun on the roller coasters ;)
Maybe I should complain about my project work in the university, but I'm sure you all have some assignments to do and really don't want to hear about it.
Maybe I should tell you that yesterday was exactly 3 months since I came in Denmark. Oops, I already said it :) Nothing much to add actually.
So really, what to say?!?
Well, I won't say anything. Instead I'll just close my eyes and enjoy the sun coming through my window :)

Loesje

Road trip

It’s time for me again to catch the road and go on a trip. You know how much I like to travel so I’m really looking forward to this. This time I’ll visit Sweden, Stockholm especially :) Some of my friends from the collegium planned this trip and invited me to join them. Of course I couldn’t say no :) So here we are - 8 boys with 2 cars filled with alcohol on a trip to Sweden. We are going to explore its nature, its beauty, its girls, its clubs and everything interesting that is to see there. For sure 4 days won’t be enough but we’re going to enjoy them! Wait for details when I return, unless some tall, blonde, beautiful Swedish girl doesn’t kidnap me ;)

me and the Queen :P

Just a quick post to tell you that today I saw the Queen (Margrethe II, Queen of Denmark) :) I was working in the morning when they blocked the road and her majesty's car passed just a meter from me. The car caught a red light so I could closely look at her and take some pictures. Well she's the first royalty I see - nice, isn't it!!!

Easter is knocking on the door

In a couple of days we are going to celebrate the most important Ortodox Christian Holiday – Easter. So this is the time for preparation and according to the Bulgarian tradition on the Thursday before Easter we paint eggs with which we are going to fight on Easter. That’s a lovely tradition which I very much liked when I was a child – I couldn’t wait for that day to get my hands “dirty” and use my imagination on creating some beautiful paintings on the eggs. Since I’m still a big kid in my mind I was looking forward to this :) An interesting thing is that each Easter I’ve spent home with my family so this year it was going to be different – much different. Apparently the Danes don’t pay much attention to Easter and they don’t paint eggs or make kozunak (traditional sweet Easter bread) which was too bad because we didn’t have the paint for the eggs (actually one of the Bulgarian girls here had only blue and purple colors left). I decided to go to the Bulgarian embassy here in Copenhagen to look for help but they also didn’t have any paint. Shame on them. So what should we do – the first egg must be painted red, not blue or purple. Well we decided to do it anyway – after all most important is the intention. We boiled some onion peals to make paint similar to red and with it we got one more color. That was enough for our small Bulgarian group so we spent an hour in the kitchen and did our best to preserve the tradition and feel a bit closer to home. You can see the result on the picture – it may not be fantastic but we’re proud of it :)

Tomorrow is the day for making kozunak – not an easy task (even for my mother and grandmother) but we have to try. I smell a disaster coming but we are going to eat exactly what we make so it better be good. Wish us luck :)

EWE’07 – the magical conference that I’ll always remember

Can you imagine a conference that is so big and well organized that you start to wonder how did the organizing committee managed to do such a great job?

Can you imagine more than 400 participants from 44 European countries?

Can you imagine a series of well prepared lectures and workshops on European theme?

Can you imagine a week full of great emotions and lovely moments that make you smile every time you remember them?

Can you imagine 6 wild parties in various locations (including a foam party and the huge auditorium party that included thousands of participants + guests from all Eindhoven)?

Can you imagine the peaceful and yet very interesting city of Eindhoven toured in the Dutch way - on a bike (the place where there are twice as many bikes than cars)?

Can you imagine a one-day trip to Amsterdam exploring all it’s (il)legal pleasures?

Can you imagine sharing all this in an amazing group of 15 wonderful people who you lived with and can easily call friends?

Can you imagine how proud I was to be a part of the Bulgarian delegation and to present Bulgaria in the best possible way?

Can you imagine EWE – the best conference ever!

This was a week that filled me with so much nice emotions and I experienced all kinds of interesting things. It was nice to bike again (without a single crash!), to smoke shisha (nargile) and sing songs around a fire, to drink traditional Belarusian krambambula (I hope I spelled it right), to sleep with 10 people in a single room, to be interviewed for the daily conference TV shows (wow that was an embarrassment :P), to participate in amazing workshops – most of which were games :) (Loesje is sooo great), to give comments on a lecture discussion (I guess this lecturer was really embarrassed for not knowing that Bulgaria is a part of EU), to sing a song with my wonderful group at the karaoke, to wear these funny cooking gloves as a group symbol (which was much better than some of the other groups’ symbols), to have these interesting political discussions in the free time, to play the Bavaria Beer Crate Dance (Adam you are our hero – it is always better to win a kiss and stay in forth place than to be first and win a crate of beer :)), to teach a foreigner to dance horo, to discover that when you wear an easily recognizable flag some careless participants tend to follow you but not the groupgiude :D and many many more interesting things! When I look at the pictures and go back, all those memories flood my head and make me smile :) This was truly amazing!

I want to thank the Organizing Committee for making all this happen!
I want to thank Gijs, Han and Dyon for being our great group guides and wonderful hosts, always trying to help and to make our stay as pleasant as possible!
I want to thank the whole Bulgarian delegation for being a wonderful delegation, always partying hard and enjoying the fully the conference! I especially want to thank Poli, Jeni and Nanda for the wonderful horo dancing :)And of course I want to thank Olga, Adam, Nina, Daria, Ardian, Anda, Sergey, Alena, Clara, Burcu and Marek for being the greatest group and sharing all those wonderful moments with me! They have become my new European friends and I really want to see them again. This summer for sure I’ll go to Budapest and Vien so I guess I’ll see Adam and Marek, and as we promised Ardian for sure I’ll go and celebrate with him the independence of Kosovo when the time comes. I love you guys! You are the best!