You may remember that I made a big decision a few weeks ago rather than traveling or gallivanting around some corner of Europe I made <a href="http://www.karolinkabulgaria.com/2011/05/19/doing-whats-hard/" target="_blank">a decision to learn more Bulgarian this summer</a> in an immersion situation. Throughout the year I've been actively seeking out ways to practice my Bulgarian and I've been seeking out situations where I must speak Bulgarian.

It's been easy for me to learn enough Bulgarian to get by. After all, I do work at an English language school. The flip side is that it's been difficult to force myself to actually speak Bulgarian.

A quick summary of my pursuit of Bulgarian would look like this: over the last three years I've been working slowly but steadily at Bulgarian. I have a weekly lesson with my tutor Ivet. I practice with a teacher at school two hours a week as well as with student tutors two hours a week. So my pursuit of Bulgarian has been going: little by little.

Admittedly I could also stand to study more but such is life.

However this little by little business is slow going and I am ready to know more, to be more fluent and to be able to communicate better.

So I am happy to report that during the month of August I am going to be at a summer camp/summer school for Bulgarian children outside of the Bulgarian town Elena. Yep. I'll be teaching English a couple of hours a morning a week and then doing crafts and playing sports with the kids in Bulgarian.

Did you know that I could do those things? <em>Yes</em>. I've got skills outside of English and blogging.

I told my student tutors this today and get this, they laughed at me. That didn't necessarily inspire confidence. Then we practiced imperatives in Bulgarian.  That made me feel a little better about whole thing. Not much better but a little better.

I've got a lot to learn.

But then again, I already knew that. That's why I am doing this.