1 year and 8 days

It's been 1 year and 8 days since I left home and went to Sweden for 5 months, then decided to stay in Sweden 4 more months, than went home for a bit and finally I am here in Bulgaria. 1 year and 8 days. But my home is where I am, so I can't say that I miss home, I miss my family and friends, it's true. 

Today I saw pictures of new arrivals in Kristianstad. It feels very strange now, especially after I've seen the picture of the house that I lived in and the window of "my" room was open... I'm wondering who lives in this room now and how are they dealing with the broken window... At least there's no more knoking sounds in the heater and ventilation, that took me 4 months and a lot of nerves to get rid of. (thanks wonderful organization "Krebo", we will NEVER forget you). 

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.

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.