Archive for January 4th, 2009

My first flight with a plane

Sunday, January 4th, 2009

The time for flying back to the Netherlands has come. Before we departured from the Netherlands with the help of Nomen wehad reserved tickets to fly with one of the planes of W!zz air. Thanks to God the flight was flawless and we take off and landed alive to the Dortmund airport. The experience was nice it’s especially cool when the plane accelerates before it takes off.and when it lowers in order to land and the landing itself, cool! I experienced to be more scary but it was quite OK.I prayed a bit before we take off and before we landed. We met Nikola another guy from the Bulgarians who lives in thesame dorm where I do. Which was a nice thing because he has already traveled from Dortmund to Arnhem and he knew whichbus we need to take to go to the central train station in Dortmund. In fact the Dortmund airport is near to another townand is 30 minutes away with a bus from the central train station. I asked few Germans which bus do we need to take and fewof them told me I had to take another bus from the one that Nikola said and I almost did which was going to be a mistake becausethis bus doesn’t go to Dortmund’s central train station but to other near town train station. Happily when I was already in thebus one Bulgarian told us that this is not the right bus so I went down from the Bus. We had to wait an hour for the next buswhich was going to Dortmund’s central train station. We went to the train station. Asked for the nearest time when we can geta ticket to Arnhem, the closest we could take required us to change trains 4 times! Terrible but since no many options wereavailable and considering the train price 38 EUR which is better than 50 EUR. We took the tickets and catched the train.The first train was really nice it had plugs in it. This is the first time I see a train with plugs pretty cool, eh! :)That traveling was exhausting for me because I haven’t slept nicely for few days. I felt like a porter. Wearing this heavybags for so long changing trains. The whole trip from Dobrich to Arnhem took us something like 24h! With bus it takes around48h but at least you don’t have to care about changing trains wearing heavy bags and so on and so on.By the way I liked Germany much more than The Netherlands. The only thing I disliked there is that people to answer to thequestions you raise in English in their native German language. But yes that’s probably normal since we’re in their country.Only a couple of ppl answered in English. I determined that I could understand a lot of the writtings in Germany. Probablythe 5 years I had “studied” that language aren’t so pointless as I thought before. Now it’s Sunday I’m staying in the Dormitoryafter I had a nice sleep last night and thinking what I’m gonna do tomorrow. Tomorrow I have a defense on one of my projectsI’m not really prepared. Actually I’m at a point of my life that I don’t care anymore what will happen. I realize that I cannotcontrol things so everything is up to God. I should note that I owe a lot to Nomen and thank him for everything he did for mewhen I was in Bulgaria and for the fact that he brought me to Sofia’s airport with his car (Honda), he call her (Hondio) :)We traveled to Sofia with Desislava and Nasko the trip was quite a fun one. Nomen has left me to drive for 100 or 150 km.He did so a couple of times when we still were in Dobrich for which I thank him as well. I also thank to God who has strenthened meagain and gave me power to successfully travel from Dobrich to Sofia and from Sofia to Dortmund and from Dortmund to Arnhem!Thanks Lord for your kind mercy!END—–

My pleasent time back home in Bulgaria

Sunday, January 4th, 2009

I experienced mostly a great time in Bulgaria. Refreshing days went to Kavarna with Nomen to confess my sins in front of a priest. I purposely has selected Kavarna’s Church and father “Vasilii” because I liked him as a priest. I’ve been on a liturgy once during the summer in the church where he takes care for. After the Liturgy I drived Mitko’s Audi A3 towards Dobrich. I’m a new driver so I need to practice. I drived during this days few more times. We went several times for a coffees and pubs with Nomen and Alex. We also went out with Nicki Mitko’s brother a couple of times and we had a great time together coffee-ing. I also went to a dentist. It seems that I had caries and they had to fix my teeth. The caries was in the last stage that it could be so the dentist had to kill and remove my nerve and he did so, the nerve was killed (with arsenic fluid) and removed and the tooth was filled in. I also went out for a drink 3 times with Lily. I went to liturgy 2 times. I met a nice priest (Father Veliko). In Varna when I came back from the Netherlands I met Order and had a great time with him. A lot of other things that I can hardly remember. The Christmas this year. My whole family was there except my grandma who had to be in the hospital (however the Christmas was just perfect!) Thanks to God! I and my family gathered together and had a nice talk and dinner even we said the Lord’s prayer before we started eating it was so nice … The New Year eve was a nice one as well. Even my grandma was there. If we don’t count few minor downfalls like a small quarrel with my sis all went well. I was home with my family until 1.30 in the morning and afterwards went to Denica’s who is a close friend of Nomen, Pavlin was there as well he is an old friend from the metal days of my past. I drinked a couple of glasses of beer and wine. In the morning I had a little hang-over as as a consequence from the drinking. The 13 days I was in Bulgaria has passed so quickly. I shared with my grandma and mother that I feel bad physically, emotionally and mentally. During my stay I also have been aguest in my aunt a couple of times, so nice time there as well.The food in Bulgaria is so great I was very, very happy to eat the delicios food there. The food here in the Netherlands is completely terrible compared to the one at home! In short that was how my days passed there. And I’m so happy about them! I’m looking forward to go home as fast as possible I realize my place is not abroad. When I firstly came here I thoiught that maybe my place is somewhere in some of the developed countries like here in The Netherlands. Now I think differently. It’s quite interesting that after I went out of Bulgaria I became much more a patriot. When I was living there I always has praised the developed countries way of living and thinking. Now it’s a completely different story I sometimes even like the bad things in Bulgaria. I wonder if other people who went out of Bulgaria to work or study has experienced the same.Anyways thanks to the Lord I had a safe journey from Bulgaria to the Netherlands. And here I’m here in the dorm again. I’m gonna tell in short my experiences from the trip back from Bulgaria to the Netherlands in a different post in a minute.END—–