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Schoolhouse Global Rock: April 2008
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An English Teacher's Journey into the World of the Trojan War, the Olympics, and the ancient cultures of Greece and Bulgaria. Wednesday, April 30, 2008. First we will be driving into Sophia (the capital) from Greece on the 19th of June. Here in Sophia we will learn about Ancient Civilizations, go to the National History Museum, visit some churches and monasteries, go to an Art Museum, and eat at many different restaurants along the way! After Varna I will visit Bourgas and have a day trip to Nessebar.
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Schoolhouse Global Rock: Day 36: Heading back to Sofia
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An English Teacher's Journey into the World of the Trojan War, the Olympics, and the ancient cultures of Greece and Bulgaria. Saturday, July 5, 2008. Day 36: Heading back to Sofia. This is a picture of our Fulbright group with several teachers from the English Department of Plovdiv University, who we met with today. (I'm on the left side with the pink shirt and green skirt). I don't think the tour company remembered that all sixteen of us packed for 6 weeks of travel.we have a lot of stuff! While some of...
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Schoolhouse Global Rock: Day 40: Good-Bye, Hello
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An English Teacher's Journey into the World of the Trojan War, the Olympics, and the ancient cultures of Greece and Bulgaria. Monday, July 7, 2008. Day 40: Good-Bye, Hello. I'm sitting here in my hotel room at the Crystal Palace in Sofia, Bulgaria all packed and ready to go to the airport, but I thought I'd write one last time. My plane leaves early afternoon and I fly from Sofia to Frankfurt, have an hour lay-over, and then am off to Chicago. Throughout this trip I have been gone for 40 days,. Tonight w...
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Schoolhouse Global Rock: Day 39: Mountain Climbing and Dressing Up
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An English Teacher's Journey into the World of the Trojan War, the Olympics, and the ancient cultures of Greece and Bulgaria. Sunday, July 6, 2008. Day 39: Mountain Climbing and Dressing Up. It was off to Vitshova Mountain again today.but this time with the whole Fulbright group. We ended up climbing up together on an "off-the-beaten-path" kind of trail. It was so much fun because we were really having to hop over the rocks! By the way, the picture to the left is Bob climbing down the mountain. And final...
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Schoolhouse Global Rock: July 2008
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An English Teacher's Journey into the World of the Trojan War, the Olympics, and the ancient cultures of Greece and Bulgaria. Monday, July 7, 2008. Day 40: Good-Bye, Hello. I'm sitting here in my hotel room at the Crystal Palace in Sofia, Bulgaria all packed and ready to go to the airport, but I thought I'd write one last time. My plane leaves early afternoon and I fly from Sofia to Frankfurt, have an hour lay-over, and then am off to Chicago. Throughout this trip I have been gone for 40 days,. It was to...
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Schoolhouse Global Rock: June 2008
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An English Teacher's Journey into the World of the Trojan War, the Olympics, and the ancient cultures of Greece and Bulgaria. Sunday, June 29, 2008. Today we arrived at the Black Sea coast! Before arriving in Varna, though, we stopped in two other towns. The first was Arbanassi which is the historic part of Veliko Turnovo (where I was yesterday). We visited an old, historic house that was re-furnished to look like the 1400s. The house had huge Turkish and Oriental influences. Instead of b...On our way to...
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Schoolhouse Global Rock: Day 38: Shopping, Cafe-ing, and Lunching
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An English Teacher's Journey into the World of the Trojan War, the Olympics, and the ancient cultures of Greece and Bulgaria. Saturday, July 5, 2008. Day 38: Shopping, Cafe-ing, and Lunching. I had a lovely day today: it was our free day and Amy and I relaxed and made the most of it! For myself and others). Now that Amy and I were in the know, we went to a cafe for some pop. The picture to the left is of Amy, Bob (AKA "Prez") and me. We spent a good two hours just talking.how European of us! Our last cou...
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Schoolhouse Global Rock: Day 35: Sozopol and Plovdiv
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An English Teacher's Journey into the World of the Trojan War, the Olympics, and the ancient cultures of Greece and Bulgaria. Wednesday, July 2, 2008. Day 35: Sozopol and Plovdiv. We then drove a good three to four hours to Plovdiv. As we passed through the countryside we saw lots of farms, but also saw lots of sunflower fields. Here in Bulgaria that is one of the commodities that is grown: sunflowers. So we would pass fields after fields of sunflower fields. Hope you’re all doing well! Last Days in Sofia.
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Schoolhouse Global Rock: Day 33: Bourgas
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An English Teacher's Journey into the World of the Trojan War, the Olympics, and the ancient cultures of Greece and Bulgaria. Tuesday, July 1, 2008. In the picture to the left, Kristen is peeking through one of the passage ways. Hermits lived here starting in the Middle Ages, around 1300s. The caves also contain several tombs where people nowadays put coins on to honor these monks who are buried here. The cave monastery is two levels. Hope you're all doing well! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Day 35...
