My sister C. and I were talking recently via gmail chat. Some how we got onto the question: is your glass half empty? or half full? I'm pretty clearly a half full kind of girl.

Sure. Sometimes I complain. Sometimes life is hard. Sometimes school is hard. Sometimes Bulgarian is hard. Sometimes Sofia is. Sometimes I am unhappy.

But mostly, I am happy. Still, it's important for me to be thankful. I've been very lucky in my life and I am grateful for this.

So I decided to take a look at what I've been thankful for in the past. Last year my post was <a href="http://www.karolinkabulgaria.com/2010/11/25/to-be-thankful/" target="_blank">short and sweet</a>. The year before that I managed <a href="http://www.karolinkabulgaria.com/2009/11/27/100-things-i-am-thankful-for-2/" target="_blank">to create a list of 100 things</a>. And apparently my first year I wasn't thankful for anything--or I was too busy/overwhelmed with life abroad to document everything I am thankful for.