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Update

I’m quickly losing track of time. The date, and to a certain extent the actual time, doesn’t really matter here. Daylight is the thing you plan your life around.

I’ve been getting up at 8, working for around 5 hours, having lunch, and then relaxing, reading, playing music until dinner. In the nights we’ve had bonfires with neighbors and last night we watched the meteor shower in an incredibly starry sky.

One interesting thing about Voditsa is that a number of Kathy’s (my host’s) volunteers have ended up buying property and moving here. Property is CHEAP. You can get a house and land for maybe 10,000 euros. The daily cost of living is tiny compared to what it is in America or western Europe. For example, a meal at a good restaurant costs around 4 lev. That’s 2 euros. Buying fresh ingredients is of course even cheaper. Living here, you’re missing out on many of the “comforts” of developed nations, but from this perspective a lot of those comforts are more like distractions.

So for an impoverished college grad, this can be an attractive situation. It helps to have a job you can do via the internet - and for which you’re getting paid in American dollars.

I doubt I’ll be moving to Bulgaria anytime soon. But the wheels are turning. I have a couple longer-term ideas….