This is gasp... my 100th post.  This morning I woke up with the best intentions to write a post about the 100 things I am thankful but I decided against it.  Somehow that seemed like a tedious task and I couldn't imagine that anyone would actually read all of those.  Rather I've decided to do some math and add up everything I am thankful for with the hope of doing my math correctly and eventually reaching a total of 100 things rather than a list of one hundred things.

I am thankful for...
<ul>
	<li>my parents, brother and sister (that's 4 people total) who were nothing if not supportive when I told them I was leaving my job, moving to Bulgaria to teach English, learn the language, travel throughout the country and write about my experience.</li>
	<li>the 6 months I've lived in Bulgaria.</li>
	<li>the two weeks I spent in Tryavna with the Fulbright attending the Fulbright International Summer Institute (FISI).</li>
	<li>the 3 packages I've picked up at the post office!</li>
	<li>the 13 sites I've visited and gotten stamps for out of the top 100 cultural, political and historical sites in the best of Bulgaria book.</li>
	<li>the 4 new countries I've visited.</li>
	<li>the 20 stotinki  or .20 leva (which I previously wrote out as studentki... opps) that it takes to get a good coffee from the machine in my kitchen.</li>
	<li>the 4 times that I've been to my landlord's house for dinner.</li>
	<li>the 3 weeks of language class that I took in August.</li>
	<li>the one friend I've had visit me thus far.</li>
	<li>the 7 books I've been meaning to read and have finally had the time to read (and counting).</li>
	<li>the 8 trains, 8 regular buses, 10 minibuses and four airplanes that I've been on since arriving in Europe allowing me to see so much of Bulgaria and Europe.</li>
	<li>the 2 live plants my landlord and his wife gave me to make my apartment feel more like home.</li>
	<li>my language tutor in Washington DC who taught me the Cyrillic alphabet and my numbers in Bulgarian.</li>
	<li>Skype.  <em>Oh that's free.</em></li>
	<li>the Fulbright program.</li>
</ul>
There you have it.  The total is 100.  Sure there are other things I am thankful for (like all of my friends, students and colleagues at school) but I think that this list covers most things, gives you an idea of what I've been up to and aside from the serious things I am thankful for in my life--this is just a clever way to celebrate 100 blog posts.  And, hey, that's not a small achievement.