Thanks Kiril and Methodius for creating the Cyrillic alphabet!!

Methodius, I'm sorry that you got shorted on the naming part of Cyrillic alphabet.

More to the point, three cheers for the four day weekend I've been given in your honor to celebrate the two of you!!

It's pretty clear to me that you two were serious dudes. Here's to creating a new alphabet (even if it does look an awful lot like Greek) and teaching people. I think it's hard enough to teach teenagers without having to teach them the alphabet first.

Anyhow, thanks for the alphabet.

I thought I'd take a moment to highlight some of my favorite Cyrillic letters: я, ъ, ш, ж, щ, ц and ч.  These letters look silly to the untrained eye but do good things in Bulgarain. Then there are the false friends. These letters are sneaky--they look like Latin letters but aren't: в, с, у, р and н. Luckily there are a few faithful friends as well--letters that cross the alphabet divide: а, е, к, м, о, and т. Thanks for being you--faithful friends. To any letters I've left out, I'm sorry. It's not you, it's me.

On this note, I'm off on a Bulgarian adventure with my friends P. and H. We're going to spend two days in Veliko Turnovo and then head to Kazenlak to check out the Rose Festival. Then on Sunday I'll be back in Sofia and gearing up for prom!!