[caption id="attachment_1138" align="alignleft" width="500" caption="The entrance marker of the campus"]<img class="size-full wp-image-1138" title="ACS Front Gate " src="http://www.karolinkabulgaria.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/img_0062.jpg" alt="The entrance marker of the campus" width="500" height="333" />[/caption]

I've been spending lots of time at school this week.  So I thought I'd post a few pictures of the place.

[caption id="attachment_1137" align="alignleft" width="500" caption="One of the main buildings on campus"]<img class="size-full wp-image-1137" title="ACS " src="http://www.karolinkabulgaria.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/img_0056.jpg" alt="One of the main buildings on campus" width="500" height="333" />[/caption]

The campus is beautiful. And I am lucky to have a classroom on the second floor of this building.  You can see the windows of my classroom behind the imposing columns on the font of the building.

The room is a good size and I've got new tables and chairs so that's great.  This said, I am still in the process of getting "moved in" to my classroom.  I don't have a lot to post on the walls or to make the room mine yet but I am working on that.

One of the interesting things about the school is the fact that after World War II the Bulgarian Government closed the school and the campus became that of the Bulgarian State Police.  Only after the changes did the school reopen and in 1992 the first class of 8th graders started the school year in one of the schools original buildings. Today the school has access to most if not all of the original buildings.

But as a result, the school is still surrounded by police buildings and to get on campus you must pass through a police check point.  I haven't had any problems getting on campus but I am still not really used to it.  Along the same lines, I am not really very used to the stray dogs on campus either but I guess that these things will become more and more normal to me.

All in all, things are going great.  But I can't believe that school will start here on September 15th.  Mostly I guess this is because it's hard for me to get my head around the fact that I've lived here for a year already and that September 15th will mark my second year of teaching English in Bulgaria. Wow.