Chestita the day after Baba Marta!!

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My students were again wonderfully funny when it comes to celebrating this Bulgarian holiday. 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.