well, i am all better now...
i know everybody is collectively breathing a sigh of relief. :-)
anyway... not too much to update.
yesterday i took a huge bite into a plum from off our tree, then looked and there were maggots everywhere...
not gonna lie, it was pretty f'ing disgusting.
i didn't even think and just spit it everywhere, on the floor of my house... opps.
my host mom was laughing... i wasn't.
after i laughed.
after i spit out every single bit i could possibly regurgatate.

last night i went with my host brother to a nagosti (visit). he asked me to go because stacey (another volunteer in my town) was going to be there with her host mom.
It was nice to have somebody to speak a little english with, and not be the only one totally lost in the conversation.
after the people we were visiting drank a sufficiant amount of rakia, it was time for the unavoidable circle dancing.
love it.
stacey and i were finally convinced to join in... although we only know one dance.

we joked that we don't have even close to enough language skills to have any sort of conversation with people, but we could tell them all the food on the table if they wanted.
oh, and also we are currently learning prepositions.
i said that i have all the language tools needed to discuss the meaning of the universe now with words such as "in" "on" "behind" and "in front".
stacey agreed. she goes, "yes. is God on the table? under the table? behind the table? next to the table? just look hard enough, and you will find God"

this was, and continues to be, the most hilarious conversation i have had in quite a while.

ok, maybe it is one of those "you had to be there" sort of things.



annnnyway. i'm heading back to the house for a bit to study.
then later going with my language trainer and the other volunteers in my town to Dupnitsa for dinner and a Chalga concert.
yeah! chalga! whoo hoo!
(ok, so it's not exactly my type of music... but, it will be interesting at least.)

miss you guys.
so much.

tracy