the guest

I've just had a Bulgarian visitor this weekend :) Finally! Thanks Sasho. Thanks for coming and making the weekend more interesting and exiting! Even though Horsens is not too far from Copenhagen, it was nice of you to come.
It's good finally to have the chance to be a good host and show a friend around. After all the people in my house had international guests, it was my turn now :P And I think I needed some motivation to take a tourist trip around the city and look at the famous sites. Believe it or not, yesterday was the first time (although I've been living here for 4 months) I saw the little mermaid! Man I wasn't surprised at all to see a whole croud of Japanese tourists around it :D
And today, as good patriots, we went to vote for the election of the Bulgarian members in the European Parliament! It gives you a warm feeling when you care about your country and show it when you are abroad. Can't wait for 22nd of May and go again to the embassy for the cocktail they're giving. For sure it will be interesting.

I hope somebody else will want to surprise me and come to visit me, although I doubt it. Anyway, the invitation is given, so it's up to you guys! Last chance (read - last month) to apply for an unforgettable tour guided trip to Copenhagen :P The organizers (me) assure you, you'll have a wonderful experience, great emotions and huge amounth of fun :) Feeling tempted? Checking your schedule for the next month? Started looking for cheap plane tickets? Don't hesitate! Just do it!

A random thought :)

Today I came across a very interesting part of a song:

"We'll meet again, don't know where, don't know when,
But I'm sure we'll meet again some sunny day
Keep smiling through, just like you always do
Till the blue skies chase the dark clouds far away"

Just wanted to share this with you :)

Best wishes to all my foreign friends to whom I dedicate this song!

Eurovision results

Just a very short post to say that Bulgaria finished 5th on Eurovision! It's a huge success for us.!I've talked about this with so many people that I don't whant to repeat myself and won't comment more on this. I'll just say congratulations! Congratulations to us and to Marija Serifovic and her song "Molitva" that won the compatition!

Going to the final :)

Uraaaaa! Yes! Yupiii! The Bulgarian song is going to the final of Eurovision 2007! Bravo Eli, bravo Stundji! You did it! Congratulations!
I was so happy when they read Bulgaria on the small sheet of paper. I was even happier that I contributed a little with my sms :)
It's interesting that all our neighbour countries are in the final too. Romania and Greece are there because they were in the top 10 last year, and now Turkey, Macedonia and Serbia also join the final. I guess Europe likes the Balcan music and songs :)
So now I'm waiting for the final on Saturday. Watch it with me, hope with me and vote with me!

Eurovision

Europe is all music today, participants from 42 countries are going to compete for the title of winner of the Eurovision song contest 2007 in Helsinki, Finland - the biggest music event on the old continent.

For a third year in a row Bulgaria has a participant in this great event and today we all keep our fingers crossed for Elitsa Todorova and Stoyan Yankulov who are chosen to participate first on the semi-finals and their wonderful song "Water/Вода". The song is really outstanding, with a lot of ethno sounds and rhythms, and we hope that it will go to the finals on 12th of May. You can see the song on youtube.com: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9ytzgtLW1A&mode=related&search= and if you like it feel free to vote for it :)

Good luck guys! You deserve to be in the finals, you deserve to win!

Europa

Today is a remarkable day - 9th of May! Some call it the day of Europe, some - the Victory day; no mather if you celebrate the Soviet victory in 1945 and the fall of the Nazi regime or the Schuman declaration and the birth of the EU, all Europeans have a very good occasion to celebrate today. This truly is the day of Europe - a day that unites us! Europe is no more devided into 2 hostile blocks, we are becomming more like one family. A family that Bulgaria and Romania recently joined.


However we still have a long path to walk. If my friends from Ukraine, Albania, Serbia want to come and visit me, they can't do it freely, they still need a visa. Conflicts continue to torture the continent - the status of Kosovo is still not clear; tension grows in the relations between Estonia and Russia; there are huge protests in Turkey. Even in the EU nothing is as clear as we want it - the Constitution failed; the member countries remain selfish and look at their own interests; we still focus on the question should we give a chance to Turkey to become a member, when the real question should be how can we ease the process and integrate them faster.


Well nobody said it's going to be easy, but the main point is that things are going in the right direction and Europe is becoming what it should be - a place where different cultures meet and coexist in harmony and cooperation.

On fire :)

During the past days I feel alive again. I’m my normal self dealing with 1000 things and feeling the satisfaction after each mini success. It kind of reminds me my usual life in Sofia where I had to deal with AIESEC, with the university and with my social life. I began to feel bored here in this sleepy place where there are not enough challenges. But now it’s ok. Working on the project at the university fills a lot of my time and gives me a chance to act as informal leader of my group and coordinate the process. It’s surprising how much I enjoy writing about Bulgaria and its social and economic reality (because of the project). I somehow feel closer to my country.

Add to this the continuous writing of applications. I just got an e-mail saying that I’m accepted for the International Student Week in Belgrade (iswib.org) from 28 June to 5 July. I still haven’t decided if I’ll go but it’s good to have options :) First I’ll wait and see the results for the International Cultural Week in Pecs – another big conference/cultural week (icwip.hu) from 19 to 29 July. Man, I really should decide when I want to go back to Bulgaria and plan the trip back and which conference and countries I’ll visit. I have promised too many friends that I’ll try to visit them on my way back and should figure something.

Another good thing is that things are finally getting right in AIESEC and I’m again passionate about the organization and my future there. Currently applying for Non-corporate Manager on national level I have a good chance to have an interesting year in AIESEC working with a great team of professionals and friends. However if I’m not selected I have another option I recently learned – it appears that LC Technical University – the other local committee in Sofia is in need of experienced people to take the vice president finance position and they are interested in me. This will be a great chance to take a leadership position and face the challenge of working in a new place with new people. So if just a couple of months ago I was seriously considering to leave the organization, now I’m facing one more year filled with interesting and responsible work, many great AIESEC conferences and lots and lots of new friends :)

Wow this post is getting long and I don’t want to bore you too much :P Stay tuned for more interesting events from Denmark.