Last week I gave an interview to <a href="http://sofialive.bg/" target="_blank">Sofia Live</a>. It's a funny thing to give an interview because you're you and you write a blog about being you in a foreign country. And for the record, it's funny but also flattering.

It's flattering to be recognized for the work that you do and the energy that you pour into writing an almost daily blog. It's also amazing that I've been writing this blog for three years. (<em>Gasp</em>.) I probably should have had a party to celebrate that milestone. Oh well.

Anyhow, Sofia Live contacted me for an interview for their spotlight on locals called<a href=" http://sofialive.bg/arhiv/heroes/sugrajdanin" target="_blank"> "Съгражданин"</a> something like "homeboy-homegirl" in English.

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The interviewer and the photographer showed up at the end of the day on Thursday to take pictures and conduct the interview. They were incredibly professional and I was a little loopy after teaching all day, grading for an hour or so after school and then meeting them at about 5pm on campus for the interview.

The photography part was serious. The photographer with his own lighting and in 10 minutes he was ready to go. He took pictures and I tried not to look to awkward.  This experience confirmed the face that I definitely do not have a modeling career in front of me. <!--more-->

Then came the actual interview which I did in English. I did get the questions in Bulgarian a day ahead but they were difficult questions and I had to go through them with my Bulgarian teacher at school in order to be able to understand the questions. There's a chance I could have stumbled through in Bulgarian but my answers would have been surface level at best.

So we get towards the end of the interview and I am asked the question: if you could have said any famous quote which one would it be? and why?

In this moment, I am unable to think of a single reasonable quote.

The two that are tumbling through my head? A JFK quote from a speech he gave in Berlin during the cold war: "Ich bin ein Berliner." This however is clearly not the quote I am looking for.  Kennedy should have said: Ich bin Berliner (I am a Berliner) but instead he said: I am a jelly-doughnut. In no way, shape or form do I need to say I am a jelly-doughnut in my interview with Sofia Live. The other quote? Well it's not a quote but an advertising slogan: Nike's "Just do it." This is also not going to cut it.

The only problem is once these two quotes are rolling around in my mind they made it impossible for me to think of a more reasonable quote. So I said something about the impossible task of picking just one quote. Now I can only hope that the answer was inane enough that it doesn't make the final cut. We'll see.

The interview is due out sometime next week.