so i have my christmas music playing, strung some lights up in my apartment and my christmas yule candle is burning filling my entire apartment with the most familiar fragrance i have found here so far... and all this together equals up to pretty much all i could ask for at christmas in a country that isn't home.
ok, i'm not gonna lie, it's actually pretty great.
my apartment is finally getting decorated... yes, it is an odd conglomeration of non matching fabric, foliage and whatever else i can find and manage to hang up... but it's still mine. i was the one who decided that it was a good idea to take my bouquet of fake flowers, disassemble it, and string them up with christmas ribbon and tie it around the base of my light socket to disguise the gaping hole... ok, so it looks just as crazy as it sounds. whatever, it smells like christmas here, and for now, it's home.
i have posted some pictures from today.
the people from the chitalishte as well as other zlatarianians and i, decorated the christmas tree in the center of town. it was such an amazing beautiful day. waaayyy to warm for the middle of december...global warming much? sorry, i'm a youth development volunteer. i'm pretty sure environmental issues have their own peace corps program to worry about that sort of thing. so, as for me, i'm liking everything about the weather today. oh yeah, and the last picture is of the girl that i tutor every week and i. she is younger, but i also have a group of older students that study in the school with me twice a week. maybe i'll get some pictures of that tomorrow for you.
let's see... anything else...
i made soup tonight.
it had radishes, spinach, seaweed, an egg, and mushroom broth.
it was amazing.
but now i don't know if i'm actually a good cook, or if i have just convinced myself that i am to give me liberty to throw a bunch of totally random crap in a pot together and consider it genius. doesn't really matter.
i liked it.
kind of tasted like miso.
yeah, i just made miso soup in bulgaria with radishes and spinach.
see, i can convince myself of anything.
genius.