Where in the World is Bulgaria?

  Everytime I've told someone that I'm going to Bulgaria, the first question they always inevitably ask is "Bulgaria?  Why there?  Where is Bulgaria anways?"  Yeah, definitely not exactly a hotspot tourist destination.  Most people when they think of Bulgaria instantly associated the Harry Potter Quidditch Player Viktor Krum with it. 

  So here's the answer to the question of where is Bulgaria?  Bulgaria borders Greece, Serbia, Macedonia, Turkey, and Romania along with the Black Sea.  It's only slightly larger than Tennessee!



The climate is temperate with mostly cold, damp winters and dry, hot summers.  Basically like the weather we have in the South just minus the drowning humidity.  Geographically it's mostly mountains with lowlands in the north and southeast.  Bulgaria is located on or near fault lines and it is prone to earthquakes and landslides.  Landslides I've expereienced.  Earthquakes?  Mmmmm, not so much.  It is a strategic location near the Turkish Straits with control over key land routes from Europe to the Middle East and Asia. 

  So yeah, that's where and what Bulgaria is.  Until next time!

~OwlHeart

Bulgaria? What??

  So, I have been accepted into the International Student Exchange Programs (ISEP) to study abroad at the American University of Bulgaria in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria next semester.  This is beyond exciting for my nerdy International Studies major self!  I figured I would start a blog to catalogue my adventures in preparing to go to this country none of my friends can locate on a map and my subsequent adventures in this place halfway around the world.

  New languages, new places, new people, new food, a whole new adventure!  Stay tuned for more Bulgarian Adventures!

~OwlHeart