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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!!! :)))