July Summer Reading at the American Corner

This is the schedule of the July Summer Reading at the American Corner. This year's theme is Planet Earth. We'll be happy to see you!

July 4, 17:00
Movie: Earth-creation of a planet
4 юли, 17:00 ч. Филм: Земята-създаването на една планета

July 5, 11:00 to 13:00
Children's activity: Water
5 юли, 11:00-13:00 ч.
Детско занимание: Water

July 7, 17:30
Read aloud in English
7 юли, 17:30 ч.
Четене на глас на английски език

July 8, 13:00 to 17:00
Making presentations / Programming with Scratch
8 юли, 13:00-17:00 ч.
Изработване на презентации/Програмиране със Scratch

July 9, 11:00 to 12:00 am
Children's film: Until the Arctic
9 юли, 11:00-12:00 ч.
Детски филм: До Арктика

July 10, 11:00 to 13:00
Children's activity: Plants
 10 юли, 11:00-13:00 ч.
Детско занимание: Plants

July 11, 17:00
Movie: The wonders of the ocean
Диана/Камелия 11 юли 17:00 ч.
Филм: Чудесата на океана

July 12, 11:00 to 13:00
Children's activity: Ice / Snow
12 юли, 11:00-13:00 ч.
Детско занимание:Ice/Snow

July 14, 17:30
Reading aloud in English
14 юли, 17:30 ч.
Четене на глас на английски език

July 15, 13:00 to 17:00
Making presentations / Programming with Scratch
15 юли, 13:00-17:00 ч.
Изработване на презентации /Програмиране със Scratch

July 16, 11:00 to 12:00
Children's film: Animation
16 юли, 11:00-12:00 ч.
Детски филм: Анимация

July 17, 11:00 to 13:00
Children's activity: Volcanoes
17 юли, 11:00-13:00 ч.
Детско занимание: Volcanoes

July 18, 17:00
Movie: Life
18 юли, 17:00 ч.
Филм: Зараждането на живота

July 19, 11:00 to 13:00
Children's activity: Moon
19 юли, 11:00-13:00 ч.
Детско занимание: Moon

July 21, 17:30
Reading aloud in English
21 юли, 17:30 ч.
Четене на глас на английски език

July 22, 13:00 to 17:00
Making presentations / Programming with Scratch
22 юли, 13:00-17:00 ч.
 Изработване на презентации /Програмиране със Scratch

July 23, 11:00 to 12:00
Children's film: Animation
 23 юли, 11:00-12:00 ч.
Детски филм: Анимация

July 24, 11:00 to 13:00
Children's activity: Animals
24 юли, 11:00-13:00 ч.
Детско занимание: Animals

July 25, 17:00
Movie: The great secret of water
25 юли,17:00 ч.
Филм: Великата тайна на водата

July 26, 11:00 to 13:00
Children's activity: Oceans Висенте
26 юли, 11:00-13:00 ч.
Детско занимание: Oceans

July 28, 17:30
Reading aloud in English
28 юли, 17:30 ч.
Четене на глас на английски език

July 29, 13:00 to 17:00
Making presentations / Programming with Scratch 
29 юли, 13:00-17:00 ч.
Изработване на презентации /Програмиране със Scratch

30 July, 11:00 to 12:00
Children's movie: Timon and Pumba Safety Smart
30 юли, 11:00-12:00 ч.
Детски филм: Timon and Pumba Safety Smart

July 31, 11:00 to 13:00
Children's activity: Earth Structure
31 юли, 11:00-13:00 ч.
Детско занимание: Earth Structure

August 2, 11:00 to 13:00
FINAL
2 август, 11:00-13:00 ч.
ФИНАЛ

Bulgarian Lessons

Здравейте! Това е първът път, че пиша в български на компютъра. Уф, е много трудно с друга клавиатура...

One of the great things about EVS is that it gives you the opportunity to have proper classes for learning the language of your host country. For us, this means at least 120 study hours over a period of a few months, and right now we've done exactly half of that.

We have lessons on Monday and Thursday mornings in Zazy Language Centre, which is located on Vitosha Blvd right next to the Palace of Justice. Quite a central place to have lessons, right?


 

This is the entrance to the building - okay okay, I know what you're thinking, but, if you get down to it, it's nothing more than a photograph of a public place! The relevant jokes one can come up with from the fact that the entrance to a fetish club is the same as the entrance to where we have our language classes are rather obvious and I'll leave them to your own sick imagination!



 This is the place where we get our капучино (cappuccino) during our почивки (breaks). Did you notice that the shop is called "Kinky"? Are you noticing a mysterious pattern here? It's not just me, right?

On a completely unrelated note, in the class itself I'm always sitting opposite this map.

 

I'm sorry, this has very little to do with our Bulgarian, but I just have to get it off my chest. What is this map? I'm a big geography and map nerd so bare with me, but what's that... peninsula jutting out from the East of Finland towards Svalbard? What's that island to the East of the Dominican Republic and Haiti, like a hydrocephalic Puerto Rico? Oh! Maybe MacMillan accidentally revealed the true location of Atlantis, what mapmakers, satellites, Google Maps etc. have been meticulously hiding for millennia. Thank you, MacMillan! The truth is out there.

Sorry for that. I just wanted to share with this little thing that continually catches my attention during the Bulgarian class.

From left to right: Oles, Hanna, Zanda, Maria,
Zlatko (our teacher), Vicente and Jeroen.
Maria from Spain was absent that day but I really
wanted to take the picture exactly then.
Don't worry Maria, I haven't forgot about you!

Now, this is our class. That's us, the Library volunteers and the guys from Smart Foundation. This is the place where the magic happens. We hope that in the following half of our 120 hours we'll learn just as much, if not more, than what we have learned already, and some day soon we'll be ready to walk up to any baba or dyado and ask them for directions, order properly at the underground cantina next to the library with the handwritten menu with the green marker (have you seen handwritten Bulgarian??), understand what they ask us at the supermarket after we say the predictable things, which usually leaves us like deer in headlights... maybe even read some Bulgarian books! Yes, that'd be great indeed.

So, until the next attempts to actually write a post in Bulgarian, довиждане! (dovizhdane)