More recent posts about Bulgaria
Articles from Bulgaria
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Halloween Celebration
A girl helps her friend with her costume in preparation for a Halloween celebration.
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Halloween Costumes
A group of youth volunteers from the town pose for a photo after the Halloween celebration.
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Honor
A group of veterans carry flags during a celebration for philosophers in my town.
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Awarenes
I'm discussing the significance of the an activity during a World AIDS Day celebration.
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AIDS Is Not A Game
Two peer educators conducting an HIV/AIDS Jeopardy game during a World AIDS Day celebration.
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Merry Christmas!
Getting ready to celebrate with their annual Christmas program, 5 kindergarteners at the Roma kindergarten in Samokov Bulgaria stop for a photo op while sporting their new Santa hats!
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Summer Fun
One team is trying to toss a balloon in unison in a game during a summer camp.
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The Gauntlet
The losing team has to accept defeat by getting blasted with leftover water balloons.
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The Struggles of the Young
One of the boys from the center where I work attempts to carve open a pumpkin so that it can be gutted.
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Pumpkin Carving
A boy carving a pumpkin in preparation for a Halloween celebration.
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HIV/AIDS Poster
Two peer educators making an HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention poster for World AIDS Day.
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The Joy of Life
Me with a group of kids from the village where I live.
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Best Friends
They're always smiling.
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Charging with giants
I've spent the last two years working towards the empowerment and integration of Roma youth in a small town in South-West Bulgaria. You haven't truly lived until you've seen 200 of the world's most overlooked kids get to be the center of someone's world for a few hours. This past spring, while on a humanitarian tour throughout Bulgaria, a dozen college and professional basketball players spent an afternoon in the school yard of the segregated elementary school in the Roma ghetto playing games...
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Oh No You Didn't...
In training, my host family got a new kitten who decided she was the new dog.
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Getting Dressed
These 12th grade boys are getting dressed for their dance performance. It was definitely a two person job.
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Snowmen can dance?
Who knew snowmen could dance? Or shall I say snowgirls?
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Chess
Loved seeing the old men playing chess in the park. It was like a seen from a movie, very surreal.
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1st Day
The first day of school is reason for celebration here in Bulgaria.
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Ain't No River Wide Enough
2010 TEFL Academy in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria. The newest PCVs were teaching a class of 3rd Graders "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" for a performance later that week.
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Confusion
This student makes every class completely worth it because I always know what he's thinking (especially if he's understanding) based on his expression.
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Cultural Exchange
An American high school student from the capital city has been leading a photography interest group with my kids at the Roma middle school in town. Each child had the chance to take photos with disposable cameras as a photo assignment. Here, the American student is interviewing each child about the photos they took, and will later write an article about the kids and their creative inspiration for the biggest English news agency in Sofia, Bulgaria.
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High School Students Performing the Thriller Dance
For the Halloween Party at my High School the students performed Michael Jackson's Thriller Dance.
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Christmas Dinner
I returned to my host family's house for Christmas dinner.
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Celebratory Horo
The Roma middle school in Samokov, Bulgaria celebrates the national culture holiday last May by dancing the Bulgarian folklore horo as a school.
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Fun on the ice
The local municipality donated three free 1-hour sessions on the winter ice rink to the kids at our Roma middle school in the Samokov mountains - the "Capital of White Sports"
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In house dance party
On a stroll through the Roma Quarter/ghetto to visit some students, I was able to catch this dance party going on through someone's open kitchen door.
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"S'more" Doesn't Translate
On a hike this past summer, I introduced my kids to the joy of a campfire necessity - s'mores!
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Kinder Goodbyes before COS
A special moment as the kindergarteners I've been working with for 2 years in the Roma/Gypsy neighborhood in my town pile on for one last goodbye group hug before I COS in a matter of days.
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Trifonov Den
Two men celebrating St. Trifon's Day in Zhitnitza, Bulgaria.
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First Day of School
Plamena and Julien, 10th graders at Tzar Simeon Vocational High School, commemorate the first school day of the year.
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how I start my day
I live in a small muslim mountain town in Bulgaria, these are a few on the women who I start my days with. They are all dressed in traditional dress, this is the only region in Bulgaria where the women dress like this...and mine is the only town where the majority of women still dress in this way.
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Bori Mechkata
This is a picture of the monument, Bori Mechkata (similar to our Paul Bunyan) where our PST group gathered for language training on sunny days.
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A Tale of Two Minorities
Suddenly, the music began to blare. I turned to Katia, my counterpart, for an explanation. “All the mehani (taverns) turn into discos at midnight.” My glass of rakia (strong Bulgarian brandy) started teetering precariously close to the edge of our table as my fellow diners leapt to their feet and onto chairs, booths and, particularly impressive in stilettos, bar stools. Welcome to Bansko, Bulgaria. As the pre-recorded music subsided, a group of Roma musicians took command of the rest...
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The Commute Forward
“Vasilena?” “She travels, Gospozha!” “Djunait? He doesn’t travel, does he?” “No, he lives in town. He should be here!” 10A and I enacted this little ritual every time I took roll call, every day for my first three months as an English teacher at Gimnazia Tzar Simeon. “Ivanka?” “She travels!” “Kristina?” “Travels!” “Lyudmila?” “Travels!” Ms. Dunn’s Professional English Class tends to fall near the first or the last class period of the day. Ro...
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Baba Choir
A Bulgarian Baba choir performs a wedding dance in Dobarsko part of Razlog municipality, Blagoevgrad Province. This choir is in the community that Peace Corps volunteer Joe Waling lives. One of the women in the choir is Joe's host mother. The Church of Theodore Tyro and Theodore Stratales is located in Dobarsko and dates back to at least 1614, but some claim 1122. The church is a destination for tourists and the choir performs for the visitors. I took this low quality video with...
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Community Service Project
Community Service Project in Kneja, Bulgaria.
