Odd that I have to re-type an entry called "Rebuilding." The computer here at the internet club burped while showing me the preview page and all was lost. I usually try to copy entries before trusting a Bulgarian internet club connection, but I let it go this time. Oh well.
It's getting cold here. It felt like winter this morning, although that was just an illusion brought on by unexpected chilly hands and visible breath. So what does winter mean in Silistra, Bulgaria, you ask? Construction time! At least 10 new mid-sized projects have begun in the past two months. The biggest and most important of these is the construction of a large building near my school. A large building that is rumored to soon become a Billa. Billas are large, yellow, Austrian, grocery stores that can be found in just about evry major city in Bulgaria. In Billas a customer can touch food before buying it (A luxury, believe me), ride down aisles on the back of shopping carts, and find an actual selection of food instead of whatever wholesale product the momandpop on the corner stocks. The rumor is that it will be finished in November, to which I give a resounding HA! But if it does open next month, it will make my life much easier and happier.
Currently making my life easier and happier is Peace Corps--Bulgaria, which is doing everything it can to make my wallet rebuilding process as easy as possible. It's all going very easily and well and I've actually had to do very little, although that will change when I get the police report from Sofia and have to start in on the ID card process. PC-B is really the best group of people a person could ask for for a safety net. They take care of 200 volunteers and give each and every opne unending attention if needed and sufficiently ignore those who don't want or need attention. Any stories you hear about Peace Corps not taking care of its people is bunk. Pure bunk.
But, because of the prospect of a Billa, because of a rapidly rebuilding wallet, and because--with each 11th grade literature class I teach--I'm getting closer to being sure that I want to teach English in universities, because of all that, life is getting peachy. Pure peachy.
Posted by Rob at October 13, 2004 04:10 PM