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Hi. Sorry about being a crap blogger. Actually I'm not sorry. There are worse things to be in the world.

There was an almost total eclipse of the sun today!!! This is what passes for excitement in my one donkey town. I tried to photograph the eclipse in all of its eerie glory and this is what I got:




Опа, that's not such a great one. I was in class for most of the eclipse. That's how it always goes. In class during eclipses. Here's one through smoked glass:




And if you want to see some more AWESOME photos of my school and our concerted effort to educate (indoctrinate?) our students about the EU, check out this web site and click on the Bulgarian flag amongst all of the other flags (it's the third from the left on the top line for those of you who don't know what the Bulgarian flag looks like, gawd).

One of the teachers said that back in the day they used to have to participate in similar information campaigns about the Soviet Union.

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Yesterday went to the history museum in Kamenitza, on the far end of town for the first Easter Egg painting seminar of the year. Here are some of the results from last year:



I was by far the oldest "kid" there actually participating in the painting, and of course there were TV cameras there. (seems like everywhere I go there are TV cameras these days).

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There's a film being made in Velingrad - it's entitled "Edin Jivot" or "One Life" and the directors are Hristina and Nikolina Veleva. Anyways they shot some scenes in and around my apartment - I have the role of the mafia boss Vince.

Broken Chimneys Leak Smoke

There was a seminar at school which I ostensibly helped organize although the idea was someone else's and all i did was try to feed the kids information about the European Union and promise them vast rewards of wisdom and a chest of Spanish doubloons. I can't comment too honestly on the proceedings, because one doesn't know who reads these things. Let the photos do the talking:



Lets see, what else has been going on? Oh, do you want to see my breakfast almost every morning?




Banitsa and cafe. It's not that healthy, I know but boy is it tasty. At some point I will attempt to make a spinach banitsa - snacktastic!


And here's the lovely and talented 9-A class with whom I am doing an English newspaper (which needs to be finished this weekend, microsoft word don't fail me now!)