Okay, two weeks ago, I wrote about <a href="http://karolinkabulgaria.wordpress.com/2010/05/21/making-bulgarian-friends-abroad/" target="_blank">making friends in Bulgaria</a>. My post garnered lots of insight and plenty of advice. I think that the advice was basically the same as what my MoM told me when I started kindergarten--or what I imagine she must have told me--smile at the other kids, ask the kids if they want to sit next to you, share your markers or play with you at recess but don't take their toys or pull their hair.

The adult version of this seems to be--take initiative, let other people know you want to be their friend and rather than seeing if someone wants to play with you at recess see if anyone wants to meet you for a coffee or a beer and do it in Bulgarian.  There's also some advice that my MoM didn't give me (Um, thanks Vergil) but you'll have to check out the comments section yourself.

Then yesterday one of my loyal followers (Hi, andreytcho) reminded me of my plan for  "hanging out with real Bulgarians." Yes, I've been thinking about this. First I've been thinking how funny and great it is that this isn't <em>actually</em> my plan but rather the idea of my readers. And second, I've been thinking about how lucky I am to have such supportive readers of my blog. <!--more-->I never expected that this would be part of my blog experience when I started this. Still, it's really wonderful how all of this works. Thanks!

So now the question is when and where to meet some real Bulgarians. I'd been thinking about the outdoor cafe behind the vegetable stands on Graf Ignativ and in front of the church of the many, many saints or outdoor bar in Borisova Gradina (but I have no idea what the name of the bar is-- it's the one that I think has some link to the bar Bilkova on Shishman) but the weather is threatening rain for the entire weekend. Then the planner in me worries that this weekend will be here um in 24 hours and this isn't enough time to organize people.

What's a girl to do? Well, I guess I'll see what my readers think.  Is this weekend too soon? Would next weekend be better or maybe a weeknight after work? Just for the record, I've got my Bulgarian lesson on Sunday afternoon from 3-4pm so I could easily meet up after this.  And given the impending rain (and my bad luck when it comes to the weather), where should we meet?

Okay, I was going to write out part of this post in Bulgarian.  It seemed only appropriate given my desire to actually learn the language but somehow time has gotten away from me and I am yawning more and more so I'm off to bed.  Hopefully we can work out plans in the next day or two! До скоро!