First Day of Work!

So, today is the first day of work where the new teachers have all of our orientation meetings over the next couple days, get to meet with our department heads, and then finally meeting the whole rest of the faculty on Wednesday.  I was a little nervous last night, but really, it is just excitement now.  I am ready to start actually working; it has been a long summer waiting to start my job.  School/classes do not start for another 2 weeks, which is really nice, because I still have a lot of lesson planning to do!  Looking at the schedule between now and when the kids come, I think there will be plenty for me to be working on.  I have 5 different documents, including syllabus, course outlines, emergency lesson plans, and a couple others due by the 12th, so I think I will certainly have my work cut out for me between now and then.  

I still need to make an entry on our trip to Greece for the Bulgarian consulate and our "tour" of several different parts of Bulgaria on our way back.  I will try to write a bit and post some pictures of the weekend tonight, but bear with me if it is in a couple days :)

Last night, I finally went grocery shopping for some food so I can stop eating bread, cheese spread, and salami, because I am sick of it after having it for several meals.  I bought some cereal, pasta, eggs, you know, the basics so I can feed myself for (hopefully) a week or so.  It was certainly an interesting experience since I really don't know a whole lot of Bulgarian.  Makes it hard to figure out what each thing on the shelf is.  For instance, I had found some pasta sauces near the pasta, so I picked one out (it was a little overpriced for my liking, but it is fine for now).  I turned the corner in another isle, and there was an entire side covered in what I think was tomatoes, canned, jarred, with and without different spices.  I think they could be used for sauce, but I had no idea of what to choose!  So, I continued down the isle after staring for a bit at the shelves, wide eyed, and made my way to another isle with my little jar of overpriced pasta sauce.

On that note on food, I am off to make some breakfast, and prep something for lunch today.

Ciao Ciao 

(quick note on some Bulgarian:  they have brought in a few foreign phrases into their everyday informal speak, which makes me happy, since it includes some Italian, which I have studied and use often!  So, "Ciao" and "Merci" are both very widely used and appropriate phrases here!  So, Ciao Ciao!!)