the flea bites are back again... which means now it's official

continuing to perseverate on the fact that it's spring until... well, until it's not spring anymore.
but then it will be summer.
which, although wonderful in itself, is still a step closer to the impending winter.
but let's not think about depressing things of that sort now.
just the absolute (relative to winter) bliss that is spring in bulgaria.






so the top pictures were taken from the vast fields of wildflowers that blanket the road leading into my town.
the following are more from the club house. some kids making jewelry while others worked getting some furniture ready.
the one of me is a picture that one of my kids took because she made the green necklace i'm wearing and wanted me to see what it looked like.
by the way, i love the necklace and even if she hadn't tied it in a permanent knot around my neck, would have worn it anyway.
what else to write about...
well, we are starting to get ready for our town holiday (may 9th)... which, by the way, kelly will be here for!
on my end, the municipality wants my kids to do a baseball demonstration... they are even going to buy uniforms and everything.
apparently we are going to be the eagles with violet and gold as our colors.
ok. works for me.
uniforms for my kids and i didn't even have to ask for them?? we could be the flying ardvarks with mustard and puce and i'd be happy.
also, i took my group of older students to the municipality today to talk to the assistant mayor because they had the idea to give a speech in english for the town at the festival.
the assistant mayor said no prob bob and all's a go.
so thursday we will start writing and practicing the speech...
oh, i forgot to mention that i will be translating the speech into bulgarian after the kids speak in english.
should be interesting (read: hilarious)
i'll try to have kelly get it on tape.


oh yes,
and if anyone (read: mom and dad) has this deep compelling need to send me something (i soooo know you do!)
i would give anything for a few bags of my completely unavailable in bulgaria favorite tea. (ok, the stuff from turkey is awesome too...but this is different...it's like apples and oranges, you just can't compare)
http://www.guayaki.com/index.php?p=view_category&category_id=11
anything on the left would be fantastic... although orange blossom, chocolate, or mint are best ;-)

and send it to:
Tracy Read
Chitalishte
Ulitza D. Palev #2
Zlataritsa 5090
Bulgaria

or if you're handy with cyrillic you can be fancy and go with:
Трейси Рийд
Читалище
Ул. Д. Палев #2
Златарица 5090
България



hope it warms up over in michigan... till then i'll just be enjoying the flowering trees everywhere around me and thinking of you.
miss you all