Get to know trip

Hi everybody!!

Everything is great here!! I have been in Bulgaria for one week now! I landed last Wednesday. I joined another French volunteer in the plane I had met in my pre-departure training in Bretagne. She is working close to Sofia so we will see us soon. The arrival on Sofia was very nice : as the airport is on the east side of the city, we flight over the all city, beautiful! It is quite funny to see that there is not a real suburb, the city is in the middle on a huge plain with mountains around.

On Thursday, we left Sofia for going to Arbassi, a town near Velicko Turnovo, the 3rd city of Bulgaria in the east north part of the country. We spent 4 days here where we played games for better know each other, visit the area... It was a lot of fun!! We were the 5 volunteers (4 others will come at the end of the month), Plamen (our coordinator), Sveti (his wife), Tony (a French who was volunteer in the organization for the past months) and Dancho (a youngster of the organization).

See you soon!

The first day, with all the luggage,
From left to right :

Andreas, Katha, Cathy, moi, Sophie et Tony


Listening carefully Plamen's instructions

In each star : what we expect from this EVS

The goal : to make a square with the rope being blind and without speaking


Not easy at the beginning....
Perfect square at the end!! With Svety, Plamen's wife in the middle

Another game : to built a tower without speaking, hands attached with some curlys




Some are organized...

...and others not really!
Beautiful result, isn't it??

All these games were not only a lot of fun but they also enable us to improve our way to act as a team all together.

Trying some Bulgarian food....
Miam miam!!

Doesn't it look delicious??!!
Better than Amercian or Cuban food anyway!!


In Garnovo, we went to a sort of "ethnographical open air museum"
were we discovered Bulgarian traditions










Little trick! ;)

In Gornovo, the museum of humor!!
We spent a long time in front of the funny mirrors!!


Eating some grass!

Great "sound and light" show in Velicko Turnovo

Visit under the great weather of Bulgaria!!
(No, I am kidding. Since, it is sunny every day! Warm in the day but quite cold in the night.

Arbassi, the nice village where we were.

The fountain we had some difficulties to find!!

One of the churches. Unfortunately, we had no time for visiting it....

Soon, news from our new beautiful house, Sofia, etc.
Bye!