Well, I am happy to write that the internet is back on at my place.  The hot water heater is working.  AND, I just got to watch my landlord stock up my coffee machine and had the opportunity to try out my pretty bad Bulgarian on him.  All in all, a pretty good day.  Oh and my 8th graders are the cutest things on earth.

Of course, life can't always go this smoothly and I've been kind of waiting round for the third bad thing to come my way.  First was the water heater, second was the internet and third, well, this happened at some point before lunch.  It was at lunch that I looked down at my shoe and there it was--my right big toe was sticking out of my ballet flats.  Yes, somehow I got got a huge hole in the toe of my shoe.  The leather top seems to have pulled away from the sole revealing my big toe.

Luckily, I have other shoes here in Sofia <em>and</em> there are lots of shoe stores in my neighborhood.  It was just funny to look down and see my toe sticking out of shoe. I am glad that I'm done with trouble for the time being and very glad to have the internet working in my apartment again.

Anyhow more from me later this week on school and my students after the Fulbright orientation in Sofia has been completed.