11.8.2010., still here. СМОЛЯАН or Смолян. 

The reverse letter ‘R’ is pronounced as YA, or JA. Did you know that Bulgarians have a very sweet pronounciation of the letter ‘L’, it is more of a ‘w’ sound, it seems like they have problems in pronouncing it properly, like they have a speech impediment?And did you know that slavic languages are so much alike, and that it is easy to understand people just based on their behaviour, even though Bulgarians have this funny way of waving their head from left to right to say yes and it really looks like they want to say no?

Today I went to a small shop and bought a crappy towel for 3 euros, I like this place. We started having some dance lessons from a ballerina, and she is strict! I am as gracious as a cow and maybe a bit more gracious than a hippo, but I like it. Learning choreography was somewhat of a challenge, so – good. Tiredness is slowly leaving me as we are practicing more and sleeping less, and working more. We are also going to have some guest speakers as a part of the program and these are more or less successful and useful people to the society. So we can see how the big fish ‘breathe’. If someone forgot, this is a Community Leadership Program, empower youth to create a stress-free and violence-free society. By strengthening the individual, the individual strengthens other individuals and our society is made of a lot of individuals, no? A very important message from the founder of Art of Living is that firstly we are human beings and then we are identified with gender, religion, nationality etc.

 Happy hollidays!