Saturday, October 31, 2009

Sunday, October 11, 2009

Picture of the Month



Construction Worker in Saturday Heat

Gringo - As Content As Can Be

A cat door +
field mice galore +
endless trees to climb up +
a fireplace to curl up next to +
owners willing to drag a cat from Paraguay to Virgina to Bulgaria +
hundreds of adoring students coddling over you +
being out of the apartment +
at least 4 other cat friends +
a warm bed to sleep in night after night =
a happy happy Gringo.


A cat nap.


Let's play how many cats can you find?




Be very, very quiet - I'm hunting birds...

Home ACS Home

At the end of June, our campus villa finally was complete and we were able to move in after a year-long remodeling job. Scurrying from the old apartment in Mladost and back to campus to move all of our stuff in a frenzied haze of hours before my flight to California, with just enough time to make various piles of boxes in the villa and campus maintenance crews assembling furniture, I did not have a chance to enjoy our new digs until our return at the end of August. It took a long time, but we have finally made this our home here in Bulgaria.

Living on campus has been a real treat for both of us. Besides the short commute - about 100 meters to our offices and classrooms - we have reveled in living in such a beautiful place. It is an oasis in the desert of old and ugly communist-style block apartment buildings that is typical of everything outside the city center. The boxes are all unpacked; the paintings from Roma, Paraguay, Argentina, and Sofia are up on the walls; the fireplace has been successfully utilized; a cat door installed; and we are happy to be home.

Our New Home

Our apartment is one of three in this villa; we are in the first floor apartment shown here.


View from our patio looking out. A great place to eat lunch or have a glass of wine.


This is what the morning sun does to our living room. Beyond the french doors, our bedroom is found.


A view of our living room that includes the grand fire place. We await you Mr. Winter.


A closer look out our windows.


Our Front Yard
(all of this beauty surrounds us, and separates our villas from the main campus)






























































The Campus Trail
(located behind our house and used by teachers as a running trail; by students as a place to make out and/or smoke)