It's been a rainy fall in Sofia but at least it's fall. We didn't skip straight to winter or anything.  I don't mind rain. Sometimes in the moment it gets me down but on a whole, I am okay with rain.

Rainy days in Sofia?

Well, sometimes these are harder than other cities I've lived in. It's hard to get up before six in the mornings when the sky is overcast. My room is especially dark then. The block buildings look gray, gray, the streets and sidewalks are riddled with potholes--potholes that fill up awfully fast with water and the buses are extra full on rainy days.

Luckily, I have my pink-flower printed rain boots.  They make walking around in Mladost pretty great.  I can walk through puddles rather than around them. I can jump in puddles. I can splash.

In fact, on my walk home yesterday, I was thinking about how maybe these chintz printed rainbooks were the best $20 I spent in the last year.  Yes, I get a lot of joy out of these boots.

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