Chestita the-day-after Baba Marta!!

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My students were again wonderfully funny when it comes to celebrating this Bulgarian holiday.  They feel the need not only to give their American teachers martenitsi but also to explain the tradition. The only problem is that for many of them they don't know all of vocabulary that need to explain the holiday and the tradition.  Of course, they don't realize this until the are into the middle of story and can't come up with the word stork or an equally

Many of the students give friends martenitsi that you tie around the wrist while they give teachers larger martenitsi which you pin to your shirt. This said, I still ended up with an arm full of martenitsi. Even the students who come off in class as a little too-cool for school get in to this holiday.

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Anyhow, I've down sized the number of martenitsi I'll wear around this month. There's one really cute red and white heart on my coat. There's a martenitsi on my coat and I've got about four on my wrist.

It's hard to do the dishes with too many more on than this.