Unification Day

Yesterday and today are days off in Bulgaria, because today (the 6th of September) is the Unification Day.

On the 6th of September 1885 Eastern Rumelia and the Principality of Bulgaria were united into Bulgaria :) You can see on our map now there is a mountain (Stara planina mountain) that devides Bulgaria into south and north part. Back then, before the unification, the south part was called Eastern Rumelia (it was an Ottoman province then) and the north part was the Principality of Bulgaria.

Okay...I'm lazy :(

Ahhh...sorry everybody...I think no one reads this blog these days, so probably nobody notices how lazy I am...I know I promised I'll post here after my exams, but I didn't...my summer fininished before it even started :\ It's so hard to start writing here every time, but even now that I just started today...I see it's not that hard to write, the problem is to start...after that I can keep writing nonsenses :D

What to write?...I passed my exams sucessfully, so I graduated (finally!!!). Now I'll start preparing for a new exam. In two weeks I have an exam for enrolling in Master's program. I hope I'll be able to major International Tourism or Economy of Tourism :)

By the way, I started working again, because I need money for the university and not only ;) I work at a real estate agency. I translate offers and write and translate articles for Bulgarian villages. My colleagues at the office are crazy, so it's real fun every day :D Time goes fast there so I like it ;)

I'm still trying to learn Japanese by myself at home...but I'm lazy because of my job...I also try to study Korean :D I hope one day soon I'll know both these languages as much as I know English now ^^

Agh...I hate beeing lazy :@ but I'm like that recently, I can't help it :\

I think I'll stop writing for now, because there's nothing much to say really...

God bless you all!!! :)

Don't worry, I'll be back soon! ;)

Hello, guys!!! Sorry for not posting here for a long time, but...first I wasn't in the mood after the earthquake...after that I was busy at the university (and also lazy :\). But soon I'll be back! I have a couple of topics I'm gonna write about (even for some things months ago). Now I'm just writing to let you know I'm still somewhere in here :D :D :D

Oh, and I just got inspired...it's funny how a couple of pics can inspire me that much so I come here and write a post...but I got so excited!!! I just saw some pics by Yokoyama Jun (I hope you don't mind mentioning you in my post) in Facebook of some trip with Shun and Kojun and the other guys...these pics made my day in some way ^^ I sooooooooo want to meet you all!!! Ah...how am I gonna concentrate on studying now? :(((

Oh! Yeah! Now the reason why I won't write about some specific topic now...and why I'll be back in a month maybe? Well...these days I started studying really hard for the final exams :((( They are gonna be hard...so keep your fingers crossed for me on the 2nd and on the 7th of June (if anybody reads this before these days...). Then on the 15th of July if my state exam...when I pass it I'll graduate :D FINALLY!!! :D and a couple of months after that is the exam for enrolling in Master degree...probably I'll go for International Tourism...but I haven't decided yet ;) and it's too early anyway. Also...maybe on the 17th of June will be my Prom again :D we have prom after graduating high school and after graduating university. I'm pretty excited about it...but I'm not sure why :D maybe because it will be my second time in life wearing a dress... ;) but! Before that I'll have to concentrate on studying...ah...I hate it so much...my first and hardest exam will be in Financing of the International Trade...and I hate everything connected with Finance :\ I just have really bad memories...but I won't tell about them now ;)

So...that's for now! I'm going to study now :\ bye bye!!! And don't forget to keep your fingers crossed for me!!! (if anyone even sees the post :P )

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There were a lot of things I wanted to write about...but not anymore...After I woke up with the news about the earthquake and the tsunami in Japan...nothing else matters anymore to me...I have to study, but I can't concentrate...all I think about is Japan and all the people I know there...because I know many many many people there...I just pray everybody is fine and I really hope my life wasn't ruined today (I know that's egoistic, but Japan is everything for me...the only thing that matters besides my family and my friends)...I believe Japan is a strong country and people there are brave, so I'm sure everything will be fine...may God bless all of you!!!

3rd of March - The National Holiday of Bulgaria!

Today (3rd of March) is the National Holiday of Bulgaria.

On the 3rd of March was signed the Peace Treaty of San Stefano, which marks the revival of Bulgaria. Bulgaria has been submerged under Ottoman rule for 5 centuries, since the end of 14th century. So on this date we celebrate that we live in a free country ^^

On the first picture you can see the national emblem of Bulgaria. On the second is our national flag, and on the third is Bulgaria itself :))) Look...we have everything! Sea, rivers, mountains, plains, lowlands, valleys...it's like the heaven on the earth ^^

1st of March

Hello! I forgot to tell you...yesterday (1st of March) we had...something like a celebration. On the first of March is "Baba Marta" ("Granny Marta"). We give each other "martenitza"-s (see on the pic). Some of them you put on your hand (like I do) and some of them you can put on your shirt where your heart is :))) We give "marteniza"-s to your friends and family to be healthy. When someone puts it on your hand you make a wish. We wear them till we see a swallow, a stork or a blossoming tree. I sometimes wear them till the end of April because I wait to see a swallow or a stork and not a blossoming tree. When we put them off we also make a wish and put it either on a blossoming tree or under a stone. Some people keep some "martenitza" in their home for good luck and health ^ ^

So far I have 14 "martenitza"-s, but I'll receive two more today - one from my mother and one from my father, because I'm going "home-home" today. "Home-home" is my real home...my parents' apartment. I called like this because I call everywhere "home" anyway ^^

So...that's what I wanted to tell you about my country today :D I'll bring "martenitza"-s to Japan, too...they are all so different and interesting, I'm sure everybody will like them! :)))

Take care, friends! ^^

still waiting...

Hi, again!!! I have been really lazy lately so I could not make myself start writing. Now I'm writing just because I am supposed to be studying lol (I'm just joking)I'm really sleepy now, but I made a cup of coffee and I will listen to some music really loud, so I guess I'll get better in a few minutes :D.............okay! now I'm feeling much better! [Oh, yeah! I was extremely happy to get two comments on my first post! Thank you, guys!!!^^]

Today I had no excuse to not write here since my whole afternoon is free (except the fact that I have to study, but this can wait for now)...and the reason why my afternoon is free is the fact that yesterday was my last day at work! I'm happy that now I have much more time for relaxing and studying Japanese at home...yeah...I don't know much Japanese (according to me almost none, most of the things I know are from watching anime and J-dorama...or listening to music), but I love it so much that I'm trying to study it by myself at home...the bad part of it is that there's no one to explain things to me. I am learning with some program called Rosseta Stone...there is no explanation of things, they just make you guess and that's how you learn...you have to understand it alone...at least this makes you think a lot ;) Anyway...my biggest problems with Japanese are the counting of objects and the dates...how can you have more than seven words to count one thing?! I have no idea how to remember these things...so for that I really need a "teacher".

Hmmm...it seems the hard part is to start writing...I wrote so much words so far and I said practically nothing! I was saying that it was my last day at work yesterday...I think I'll definitely miss my colleagues, here in the Bulgarian office and those from the New York office, too. I don't know why but I start feeling people close very easily...

Last time I told you I was going to buy a present for my roommate with some friends...this pic above is of the main present :D She named him Simon, but I call him Saiko. He is big and cute! (*^_^*) [song at this very moment -> Se7en - Better Together]

You know what...I'm getting more and more scared with each day...this waiting is killing me...I'm really afraid that something wrong may happen and everything to fall apart. I'm tired of people asking me when I'm leaving because this reminds me how I can do nothing now and how I just stay and wait...I can't explain to people how much this means to me...it's everything!!! There is nothing more important for me now than going to Japan...I also hope that this work there will give me the answers I'm searching for...I mean...for the future. Now I'm studying International Economic Relations, but...economics is not for me, I'm not that kind of person...this is my mistake...and I'm paying for it now :) When I graduate I hope I won't work anything connected with economics. I think I want to become something like...language teacher...I have to work really hard to be able to do this if it's really what I want to do...I want to teach either little children or adults. I just want to graduate now and to have some more time to think of the future...

I was thinking of writing a post how this (my going to Japan) happened...and also another post about how my love for Japan "appeared", but I think these will be too boring and long long long stories... ;)

I think I should just stop here because I wrote too much again and I have to study a bit and also to study some Japanese...I had no time these days to study Japanese and I wasn't home alone (I study it only when I'm alone because I feel shy to speak in Japanese in front of my roommates and all the other people here, because they look at me like this -> o_O ).

Bye now!!! :)))

and here I am...

Okay...this is my first post...Honestly, I have no idea what to write...let's say my life is not the most interesting one...

Anyway! I was thinking of starting a blog for a long time, but I didn't know what to write about...I don't want to kill anyone with some boring posts... :\ But now I have a really good reason to start one -> I'm going to Japan! Yes, you heard me right...it seems this miracle will happen to me...not to someone else, but to me...it's unbelievable, really...anyway...I'll tell more about that in my next post (if I say it here I won't have a reason to write more, maybe xD )

And now...what made me start this exactly now...the reason are these kind Japanese people helping me to get there who asked me to make a blog about the thing that is going to happen to me ^^ I think I already like them a lot (although I really hope I'll be able to become real friends with them...not just hanging around for a couple of months and being nice to each other because we're making some kind of "business")...I really have big hopes for my staying in the country of my dreams (I still can't believe this is going to happen, but I'm keeping my fingers crossed so nothing goes wrong).

As soon as I was asked to make a blog here I came to make a registration...but!...it turned out that I already have one...it seems I made it a year ago...this is not the first time that such a thing happens to me, obviously I register in almost every website I enter :D :D :D Maybe I really am an Internet maniac :X this doesn't sound good, but it's true...

I am really sorry for writing so much in my first post (maybe no one will read it), but sometimes when I start writing down my thoughts I just can't stop. By the way...I'm listening to music now and it somehow inspires me, although I'm listening to it so loud that I can hardly hear my own thoughts. In this very moment I'm listening to Fall Out Boy - Thnks Fr Th Mmrs...I really love this song!!! ><

By the way one of my roommates will use my blog to make a report for the university. She's studying Marketing and she has to analyze a blog or...(let me ask her because I forgot...)...oh, also she can choose a website or a social network...things like this, but I think she chose my blog ^^ I'm almost proud...hahah...good luck, Zlati!!! :*

Okay...I think I should stop now because I have to prepare to go out. A couple of friends and I will go to find a present for my other roommate - Bilyana (Bilqncheto_88 ...hahahah), it's her Birthday on Monday (today it's Saturday) and she turns 23. I'll turn 23 in November, too :D but till then...I'll try to enjoy my 22 xD I'll show you what we bought her maybe in one of my next posts, because if she finds out about my blog she may want to see it...and read it...and I don't want her to see her B-day present before her B-day party ;) (tanjoubi paatii woohoo :D )

So...ja ne! Bye bye for now...

(listening to KAT-TUN - Affection ~Mou Modorenai~)

I LOVE THIS SONG!!! amazing lyrics!!! :))))))))) KAT-TUN ga suki desu!!! <3