This morning two members of Nova television came to start filming me for a little project they are doing on foreigners living in Bulgaria.  Well it might just be a project about me and my life in Bulgaria. The hook is this: I'm a foreigner living in Bulgaria who's decided to live on 400 leva for the month--something close to the average Bulgarian salary.  Hey, that sounds just like my blog project this month. Hum. People are into this?

I started this project just to see what it's like--what choices and decisions one makes, where you can cut corners (and cut back) and how it feels to give certain things up and to make substitutions for the things you normally buy. At the same time, I knew it was an exercise in futility because this is not my life. I am not a Bulgarian.

I really didn't think people would be that interested in it.  I figured that it was just a personal challenge that I'd update my readers on once a week or so.

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Now I am going to be on Nova tv. This is strange to me. The whole thing is surreal.<!--more-->

Oh and I think it's going to be hysterical. From everything I was filmed doing today it's going to be a version of a version of my life.   Here's what I mean it's my life as described on my blog.  So it's me. Only it's going to blog-me.  On top of this, it's the story of a me that lives in Bulgaria and tries to make sense of this place with an American lens.  It's this story being retold by a Bulgarian.

You give up a lot of control of your story when you let someone film you like this but so far so good. The whole thing is so funny to me. It's pretty  ironic and decently silly.  I mean, me. Really? My blog isn't enough? You think that people want to actually see what my life is like?

Well, I mean maybe, people do want to see my life but I think that it's part curiosity, part interest and part schadenfreude. But you know what? I okay with this. After all, there's a large part of my life that seems out of step with life in Bulgaria.  It's this--what's out of sync that is what makes my life funny and engaging for Bulgarians.

Don't worry. I definitely wont be letting any of this go to my head. In fact, on Thursday, I am bringing Nova tv to my Balkan dance class. If I was a reasonable person I probably wouldn't do that--seeing as my dance skills are questionable at best but I am not. But I guess this will probably make for good tv as it's going to be both funny and painful enough to get people watching.

Oh the things you all have to look forward to!