March 10, 2005
Try...
If there's been a theme to this week (I always love it when arbitrary periods of time develop themes), it's the simple idea of trying. It came to a head last night with a Hawaiian pizza. The Hawaiian is on every pizzareia's menu here in Bulgaria, which I've always found strange since I'm the only one around here eating the thing. Despite being ubiquitous like that, my order still drew gasps of shock when the table of Bulgarian friends realized what I had ordered and looked it up in the menu.
"Ham? Pineapples? And cherries [A fine addition to the Bulgarian version]? What did you just order?"
And after many complaints about it being a dessert, or just plain disgusting, one of my closer friends here finished his second beer, said "Well, I'll either try it now or never try it." and asked to try a slice. As is the fate of all who try the Hawaiian, he loved it. Others around the table tried parts of the pizza, and all who tried were impressed. We all learn new things by trying, I suppose.
Which I'm hoping will happen tomorrow. Wednesday I asked one of my smarter, but less work-oriented classes to write a poem in English. They're all seniors you see, and can't manage to give much of a crap about anything, so I actually got a few "Nyama da pravya"s ("I won't do it"s) before I told them that their grade will depend solely on bringing in a reasonable poem in English, not copied, and none of the grade will go toward accuracy or vocab. I'm still not expecting a huge return, but hopefully some will get it done. They may like it. If the results are interesting, you'll be the first to know.
Posted by Rob at March 10, 2005 06:17 PM