I was told recently by a friend and reader that short posts are better than no posts. This one is for you T.

On Saturday I went to the Mall. I hired a cleaning wonan to clean my one-bedroom apt and I didn't want to be in her way. I drank a coffee and ate an orange cranberry muffin.

Then I did some shopping. I popped into lots of different shops. I bought a few things--nothing to special. 

After a couple of hours the Mall actually got pretty busy but at 9:30 am there was almost no one in the mall and nearly every shop was still closed. Luckily Starbucks was open!!


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I have to say it was an interesting shopping experience.

I bought a sweater at H&M with my Bulgarian bank card. I was asked for id. No problem. I showed it and that was that. Interestingly not a single other shop asked me for my id but it's not such a big deal given the fact that I have to use a pin number.

After doing a little more shopping I ended up At Orange Bookstore. I had a package in my good hand and my broken hand in a sling. There I wanted to buy a gift but I couldn't carry it to the register by myself. In Bulgarian I  asked an employee to help me with it and he was very nice to do so.

After this I went to take a taxi home. My hands were full and I couldn't get the door open by myself. The taxi cab driver was also nice enough to help me and he didn't complain about only driving me to Mladost. At home he helped me with my packages by carrying them to the door.

Man who knew that all it takes for Bulgarians to be nice to me is a broken hand?!

I was greeted by a very clean apartment.
Insanely clean.


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I spent a little bit of time at home and then walked down the street for a coffee and a cake at the homemade cake shop in my neighborhood. Coffee and cake goes perfectly with my kindle. 

It was the perfect way to pass my afternoon.