Things ae going pretty well during my first full week in Silistra in about a month. Granted, the computer's still dead, but we can't ask for everything, and the internet club gets the job done, I suppose.
Classes have been productive (for June), and the last dregs of a project proposal were sent in earlier today. As soon as everything comes through on the project, I'll write about it. But I don't want to jinx anything.
I was supposed to go down to Sofia tomorrow for a flag football tournament, but most of Western Bulgaria has been the target of the rain gods' systematic, low-level flooding. It's nothing serious to life, as I understand it. But the rain has been flooding fields and valleys, even those near Silistra. I'm sure this can't be good for the economy.
Last night, I was wondering why the coverage on Bulgarian news ran a full half hour while it didn't even get mentioned in the CNN weather report, but then I remembered Los Angeles. In L.A. as soon as the rain starts they have reporters on the scene of every low-lying intersection, ready to show cars practically swimming across the lake. In Svoge, here in Bulgaria, the reporter interviewed the city mayor on a dinghy in the middle of a river. Same kind of exaggeration, I suppose. And it will all dry, after all. It's a shame about the football, though.
Posted by Rob at June 9, 2005 11:52 AM