Yesterday we had a party to celebrate a very late St George's Day at school. It's a super fun tradition that we have at ACS. In November, the Americans make Thanksgiving Dinner for our Bulgarian colleagues and in June our Bulgarian colleagues throw a St George's Day party for us.

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Here's the gist of the party: eat Bulgarian food (lamb, spring potatoes, shopska salad and rice with entrails), play a bunch of silly games, dance the horo.

I had a great time. Even even despite the fact that I got kicked in the head playing one of the games.

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Yep. During a Bulgarian game which is a modified version of leap-frog, one of my teammates kicked me in the head. Luckily we beat the other team we were playing so that made it totally okay.

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For playing the game we were given these beautiful but extremely fragrant wreaths to wear around our necks.  As you can see in the picture below, there's a little bell attached to the wreath so I spent the rest of the night walking around sounding vaguely like a baby sheep. Or a cow or maybe even a goat but neither of those are as cute an image as a baby sheep.

I ran into my good friend V. She's 5 now and I am happy to report that it's much, much easier to understand her Bulgarian now that she's older. She's still super-cute and spent a large part of the night wearing a little traditional Bulgarian folk costume.

After the games, we danced to both pop music and traditional Bulgarian music.

Most of the day rain was threatening--I am happy to report that it never opened up and rained--but we did experience a few stretches of drizzling rain. That's okay though because dancing the horo is so much fun the weather doesn't really matter.

And that my friends was our St. George's Day party!!