Another day, another $8.93.

That's how much I live on a day, converted into your American dollars. (400 lev=$268/month.)

Things have pretty much settled down here. I wake up, go to school, have Bulgarian tutoring, come home, get attacked by Max, read, watch TV, go to bed. Life is...ordinary.

The first semester ends on Wednesday. Then we have two days of vacation. The second semester begins next Monday. Can you believe it? I'm already one quarter of the way done with my service. Crazy. April (and the one year anniversary of B19's arrival) is just around the corner. The B17s are going to be leaving in a few months, and the B21s - who I guess are just beginning to take shape in some office in Washington - will be arriving! Time flies. I have learned so much this semester, it is amazing. I look forward to continuing to improve my mad teaching skillz.

Here's some spam, but it's for a good cause: Peace Corps Partnership Program. PCPP is a way for outside people to help volunteers get great stuff done! (We aren't allowed to accept direct cash donations.) If you click on the link, you'll see lots of proposed projects that Volunteers all over the world are working on. Right now, there are three projects up in Bulgaria. Matt Sumpter and Olivia Smith each have a project up; they're a married couple (you might notice they're from different states - they actually met here in Bulgaria and got married last year!) and live in Kalofer, which is the town just west of Pavel Banya. If you want to help out, drop them a buck or two - it goes a lot farther than you might think! (If you don't believe me, take a look at my salary up there at the top of this post again.) Donations are tax deductible, of course.

I like looking at the PCPP page from time to time, it is so cool to see what people are up to. They're fish farming in Madagascar, building a maternity clinic in Mali, educating people on HIV/AIDS in Costa Rica, producing spices in Vanuatu, etc. I hope you'll see my name up there sometime soon.