Saturday, August 15, 2009

Hello all you AMERICANS!!

So here is what is going on in Von's world! =) Today I woke up pretty tired and decided to clean my apt where I found at least 25 spiders and I named about five of them because I needed some entrainment and something to keep my mind off of all the spiders! I named them tiny Tim, Mama Mia, chicken legs, OMG, and SICK REALLY. After I cleaned my apt I burned some potato soup and still preceded to eat it because hey I am in the peace corp now! Oh ya today I really wanted some eggs so I went to the "store" and baught some! When I got home I realized that all I had in my fridge was tomote, apricot, and orange juice....no butter or milk! I said screw it I am going to try and make scrammbled eggs with orange juice. I then also realized that the only "salt" I had for seasoning was intended for soup. So after I had made scrammbled eggs with orange juice I put the seasoning on top and OMG it was amazing I recommend everybodt to try this wonderful surprise! In all seriousness I would have ate it any way and my college friends can agree to that testimony. Things here are pretty interesting like they always are and I recently found out that my counterpart is leaving and they are now trying to figure out what to do with me, which is really tooo bad because the center was a wonderful place for the children to receive free counseling. "welcome to the peace corp" I am practicing my flexibility here! Anyways, I went to the municipality yesterday and wrote them a note in Bulgarian about how grateful and thankful I was for them paying for my apt and getting everything ready! I also thanked them for allowing me to participate in their community. Oh yeah and I handed out some chocolate to sweeten up the deal "WINK" Anyways, they told me in Bulgarian that they wanted me to teach in a classroom for 17 and 18 years old English of course because they were short one teacher this year. They also told me that they would like me to teach English to kinder gardeners, still work in the at-risk youth center, the orphanage, with anti-trafficking, and I am choosing to work with the Roma kids and put on camps in the summer time......now lets all take a deep breath together.......1...2...3..4..5...and let it out! =) I am excited to be so busy. As of now I am just working at the at-risk youth center where I am playing uno and presidents and @$$holes......sorry grandmas! The other day I walked in however and they told me I had 30 minutes to come up with a game for the kids to play. With a look of fear in my eyes I said OK! They don't speak English and I pretend to speak Bulgarian so you can understand the look I gave! So real quick I thought OK lets play I spy.......I looked up all the words I thought I needed for the game and when it came time I told them how to play and to my surprise they didn't understand ha! So I tried to explain again and it clicked and they ended up really liking it! After about a half an hour they asked if I knew any other games and with a even more terrified look on my face I said in Bulgarian ....."Ya I know a lot of games how much time can you give me to look up all the words" and then just smiled at them with a stupid grin!! They said ok another time will be fine! I said great I will be ready by Monday! Today I went and hung out with this comsmetics woman who I teach English to outside of her shop and its pretty fun. She gave me an elephant necklace as a thank you and she buys me ice-cream.....I just don't want to break her heart and tell her that I am really not a big ice-cream fan...=) I got to see my niece on skype for the first time in like a month and a half and believe it or not I still can't stop crying! I miss that little BUG! Anyways tomorrow I am gong to be busy with translating games into Bulgarian, playing with the kids, and hopefully meeting up with a friend for coffee! That's what we do here I have never drank so much coffee in my life and they don't mess around here with their coffee! Well that's it for now I love and miss you all and I feel very blessed everyday! God has been good to me! Keep me in your prayers!

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