Friday and Saturday

Friday was pretty uneventful, so I will leave it short. We went to speak to the Bulgarian Industry Administration and Economic Reform, which was really good for the first part. The first guy spoke enough English to get his point across. We spoke about how Bulgarian business works and what needs to be done improve the growth of GDP and what. The second guy that spoke was pretty boring, as he spoke about Bulgarian history, and his translator spoke too quietly to actually here...

After leaving the government building we walked back to the hotel, which was a good two miles or so, stopping to see the President of Bulgaria's building/home, and a few other important buildings. We had a 30 minutes discussion and were blown away by what we were supposed to have learned already... I hope our final isn't as detailed as the discussion was!

After our discussion we went out into the town and went to a market where I bought some stuff and we headed back for dinner and ice cream. I have taken a liking to the local ice cream that the street vendors sell! We ate it in the park and came back around 9. The best part to the night was being able to talk to Emily on skype. What a great invention!!!

Saturday
We traveled to a town where Bulgaria gained its independence. We learned about their George Washington sort of fellow. They battled the Turks in 1878 and became independent. We met up with a group of students who were 16 and 17 all studying English and they showed us around the city. We hiked part of the way up a big hill to see the statue of an important person, and decided to hike into the woods some more, it was awesome!

After coming back from the trip we went to the mall and bought some fruit and had some delicious pizza! I ate half and will eat the rest tomorrow for a meal. We are going to the top of a mountain tomorrow, I am pumped about the snow that is supposed to be there!