Sea

Because the sea is changing constantly - 
every next wave is different from the previous.

My days are dedicated to my work, my evenings are dedicated to the sea. I love living in Varna and one of the reasons is that the city center is situated on the sea coast. Riga is also sea-city, however I need to spend 1 hour in the bus to get to the beach from my place and 40 minutes from centre. Here I can go to the beach just to read a book, as I did it on Sunday, listening to some music in my headphones. But when I came there, the waves were so huge and it was so amazing, that I just needed to share my feelings with someone and called my mom despite the price for international calls.

Babylon

Despite the fact that it's been three weeks since I came to Varna, I still don't really know the city. Moreover, we have our own names for some streets, like "Big Road #1", "BR #2" and "BR #3". Today I stepped just a bit outside of the usual walking zone and first thing I found was a book store with books in Bulgarian, English and Russian. Finally bought "Generation P" by Pelevin, that I tried to find in Riga, but didn't succeed. I think I need to explore at least couple of streets every day, there's still a lot of interesting stuff, that is out there somewhere.

Pirates therapy

No, George, you don't need to take me to Pirates every day in order to make my mood better :) thanks though.
I got lots of feedbacks on my last post, mostly asking to have less negative, however there was also one that said that if there will be more negative, I will not have internet and electricity, quite terrifying.
Anyway, might be that I overreacted a bit and showed the situation worse than it is.
In general, everything is positive, or at least can be seen like one, just need to see the right angle.
Too tired to write more, but... Pirates yesterday till 3am after volleyball, discussions about everything, it really helped a lot, I am ready for new impressions and new events to write about.

Bulgaria VS Sweden

They're asking me, how is Bulgaria? I'm saying - great. They're asking me - better than Sweden? I'm saying - different.
Sweden is more calm, more stable, better in financial and social aspect. It's a good place to settle down after 30 may be, or even later. To get social benefits, stable salary and buy a Vovlo or SAAB.
Bulgaria is more unstable in financial and social pert of life. For example, if such thing as Gini index is saying something to you, then you can compare. Bulgaria - 33,5, Sweden - 23 (Latvia - 37,7), and it's just one of lots of numbers.
BUT. As I mentioned before, at the end of the day, it's all about people. And despite the fact that I am not really religious, I like that Bulgaria is orthodox, I like that they have Cyrillic here and that the language is quite similar to mine. It makes it closer to my mind. And I like that people here are more opened, more friendly and as I also already mentioned, seem more happy. Swedish people are depressed. They are robots at daytime and stupid drunks at night. Of course there are exceptions. And of course there are less problems in Sweden. So all in all, I can't compare, it's just different.

Smile :)

First of all, I would like to say that it's been 16 days since I started this blog and it's been 380 previews in this time, not counting mine. Plus the fact that some friends ask me to write more often, and some friends even tell me that they don't feel like I am far away, because they read my blog all the time and feel like I am near. This means a lot to me and makes me want to write more, but I don't have much time after work and try not to spend it in front of computer, I have enough of computer time at work. Anyway, thanks for reading me, read me more! :)

Happiness and sadness

Airports are places where happiness and sadness are walking together. Airports, bus and train stations, harbors. One of the saddest moments this summer was one month ago, June 18, when Lena and Vlad were leaving to Ukraine after spending a week in Riga with me. This summer 4 of my Erasmus friends visited me in Riga, but I wasn't so sad about Aida and Evelina, because they live in Lithuania, and I know that it takes 2-3 hours by bus to see each other. Erasmus is the best and the worst thing in life. It brings people together, and takes them apart. It's the second thing in life where happiness and sadness are walking together.
Then - really sad moments at the airport in Riga, when my grandparents were sending me off to Bulgaria and my friend Alenka, who works at the airport was following me to the gate.

Then - really happy moments at Varna airport, when Temelko and me were meeting Despina. While we were waiting for her, I saw a little girl, around 6 years old. She just arrived with her mother and her father was meeting them. They needed to wait for their bags, but she was so impatient, that she left her mom to wait for luggage and ran to her dad. We remembered the words from one movie that "airports have seen more love than other places", don't remember the exact quotation...

not always perfect

Stress. No, a bit of stress. That's what appeared in Varna last week. That's why there were no posts for almost a week. Well, it can't be perfect all the time, life is not a fairy tale, I hope you all know it.

It all started Wednesday morning, when Lali sent invitations to the party to ALL the company. All of it. Not only Varna office, but also London, Barcelona and Copenhagen. So all day at work was dedicated to making a list of first 20 people who answered her e-mail, in order to not to destroy the apartment that the company is paying for.  But it didn't really help. Well, the party was good. There was no music, no dancing, just drinking sangria and talking, but at 1.30 am our neighbors decided that they can't take it any more and called the police. When police came, Despina and I were closed on a balcony and that's why our guests didn't believe at first that the police actually came, but when they did, all became quite, some people went downstairs to talk to the policemen and after we just went to the beach, being already not 20, but around dozen or even less. That could be it, but it was just the beginning.