Thanks to everyone who came to the meet-up today!

I was a little worried and for the few minutes that I was sitting waiting for others to appear.  It felt like an incredibly stupid plan. And then I thought, this is worse than a blind date. It's like I am about to go on a group blind date. Which lead me to wonder, what am I doing? Well, then everyone showed up with smiles on their faces and I thought:<em> okay, here we go</em>.

Well I don't know what I was worried about because I thought that it was great to meet each of you and to talk to you about Bulgaria, music, English, space travel, Walla Walla, learning Bulgarian and a myriad of other topics. Oh and it was pretty great to see a Bulgarian quarter from 1951! You may (or may not) remember my blog post about the moment I was <a href="http://karolinkabulgaria.wordpress.com/2010/03/28/let-me-count-the-change/" target="_blank">searching for a quarter to pay my grocery bill </a>and couldn't find one but luckily one of my readers did.

Here's a picture of two of us from this afternoon.

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There were just five of us today but it was pretty perfect. No rain. And, it gave us all a chance to talk and and to get to know each other.

I also understand that I was also competing against a rock concert--a Bulgarian one at that. And who am I to try to compete with a rock concert?! So, all things considered our little gathering fared pretty well. Thanks again to everyone who joined me.

Finally, don't worry if you didn't or couldn't join us this time--you'll have another chance.