Alaskan Bulgarian

The Week Ahead

This week I'm in Pleven, helping out with a much easier, more relaxing 3 hour-a-day day camp. The volunteer here in Pleven, Kate, set this thing up before the schoolyear ended and managed to draw in around fifteen or twenty kids. She wanted me around to help out with the sports aspects of the camp. Today, we taught them baseball. My baseball skills leave a little to be desired, but I know all the rules, all of the little details, and I can whack a good pitch, so we had a good time. The kids, none of whom had played baseball before, picked it all up surprisingly quickly. They even got the idea behind force-outs, which I've always found hard to explain here in Bulgaria.

So that's the week then, this daily bit of camp and hanging out in Pleven. The ride down, as always, was interesting. It was a packed bus and no air conditioning on a day that wasn't exactly the hottest of August, but could've been a lot cooler. It also would have been nice if there hadn't been people waiting for the bus in every village and next to every cow patch in Northeast Bulgaria. The driver stopped about 10 times during the five hour trip. It got a bit dull.

So yeah, we'll have updates whenever I come into the internet club here in Pleven. That about covers the news for now. Oh yeah, U.S. basketball...They own Angola, baby. Taught those guys a few lessons.