As my time in Bulgaria comes to an end, I've been thinking a lot about what a great experience this has been and continues to be. It's been harder for me to write these days as is evidenced by my inability to write a post.

On this blog, I've tried to capture the youthful sense of exploration and joy that finding a new restaurant, discovering a new cafe, Bulgarian word, or city has brought me. There's a lot to Sofia just beneath the surface and I've always tried to look for that and capture it here.

For the past month, I've had this thought rattling around my head: Bulgaria has been good to me.

Back to the writing thing. I've sat down a 100 times to write a new blog post and I've failed to do so. Until now.

It's not that I haven't been exploring new places, going to new restaurants, visiting new cities. Nope, I've been doing plenty of this. I've been taking tons of photos. I've been promising myself: this time I'll write about this. Then I don't.

I don't because, now, finding a new restaurant or visiting a new city is bittersweet--it reminds me how little time I have left in Sofia.

This said, for the past two weeks I've been making all sorts of silly top 10 lists in my head about Bulgaria. So get ready. The list (of lists) currently includes: 10 things I already know that I'll miss, 10 things I wish I'd done, 10 things life in Bulgaria has taught me, 10 things I've seen only here, and 10 reasons to make Bulgaria home.