The Next Few Months... Bulgaria Trip

For the past month or so, I’ve been telling the same story over & over again, so now I figured I’d get it all done and over with here :) On May 1, DV, Louise D. and I will be heading out to Bulgaria for two months! Bulglbu-what, you ask? Is that some sort of disease? Nope, it’s actually a country in Eastern Europe. Louise & I hope to help in schooling some of the families out there, teaching them English, etc.

There’ll even be a little time at the end for a quick, adventure-filled scamper around Europe. Of course, teaching English to children who enjoy having "salutary conversations" will be an adventure all of itself. (Dariel is the salutary young man: at 10 years old, he’s using English words I have to look up! Now Paul, who’s 2 and knows the letter "A", he’s more at our level :) We’re definitely looking forward to it!
If you have any questions, I’ll answer them by message/ email :)

A few facts about Bulgaria:

• Location: South-eastern Europe, bordering the Black Sea, between Romania and Turkey
• Terrain: Mostly mountains with lowlands in north and southeast
• Religions: Bulgarian Orthodox 82.6%, Muslim 12.2%, other Christian 1.2%, other 4% (2001 census)
• Language Groups: Bulgarian 84.5%, Turkish 9.6%, Roma 4.1%, other and unspecified 1.8% (2001 census)
• Occupied by the Ottoman Empire until 1885
• The town of Sapareva Banya has the hottest mineral water spring in Bulgaria.
• Bulgaria has around four thousand mapped caves.
• Varna, on the Black Sea, was a trading centre in ancient times. A cemetery, found in 1972, contained many gold and copper artifacts from around 4600 BC to 4200 BC.
  

Sources: http://www.propertyshowrooms.com/bulgaria/guide/bulgaria-facts.asp%20http://www.worldinfozone.com/facts.php?country=Bulgaria