<a href="http://www.karolinkabulgaria.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/box-wine.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-104" src="http://www.karolinkabulgaria.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/box-wine.jpg?w=300" alt="" width="300" height="219" /></a>Quick update: Robyn, et all, I just about lost it on Monday night when at one of our formal dinners, the hotel were serving box wine.  Bulgarian boxed wine!  It was great fun to see this.   There was both red and white wine but the white I think was better than the red.  The red wasn't very deep but the white was crisp and smooth.  I however have no idea what the names of the wine were.  I think I am going to work on getting to know Bulgarian wine over this next year.

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Also, I've never felt so blond in my entire life.  I would say that I am really a dirty blond but here in Bulgaria, I am a blond, blond.  It's very strange.  A lot of the girls dye their hair but these are colors like kind of red or a little bit blond but noticeably dyed.  But the lucky thing for these girls is that they are also much more tan than I am.  I've been an SPF 45 girl my entire life.  So here I am blond and pale.  Don't worry even though we have a pool at the hotel I am not going to be tanning.

Since this now seems to be an update about wine and me I'll add one more of my favorite discussion topics: boys.  In the two days here so far, I've had a lot of time to gossip with the girls here about boys.  They've confirmed what I really already knew--which is that 20 somethings are the same the world over.  Sure I know that this a sweepingly broad statement and that it's actually really unfair to say but it's nice to know that it's not just guys in the United States who would like to keep things casual if they can and it's nice to know that everyone worries about friends who rush into marriage, and it's nice to know that, just like in my group house, everyone teases each other about crushes and boyfriends and girlfriends.