{"id":6089,"date":"2017-07-20T12:50:54","date_gmt":"2017-07-20T12:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/internationalschoolcommunity.com\/blog\/?p=6089"},"modified":"2017-07-20T13:00:03","modified_gmt":"2017-07-20T13:00:03","slug":"traveling-around-sofia-bulgaria-life-international-school-teacher-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/internationalschoolcommunity.com\/blog\/traveling-around-sofia-bulgaria-life-international-school-teacher-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Traveling Around: Sofia, Bulgaria (The life of an international school teacher is good!)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Traveling Around:\u00a0Sofia, Bulgaria<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Can you relate?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 Passing by a house that had a whole car in its front yard as a lawn decorative item!
\n\u2022\u00a0Going through a city market, not a big touristy one, and enjoying all the little shops there; had a great “conversation” (many language barriers) with one store owner\/worker about her honey, jams and nuts.
\n\u2022\u00a0Checking out the biggest city park in Sofia and realizing how amazingly big it was. There were also some martenitsas tied to a number of the park’s trees. Didn’t know what those were, but now I know; interesting tradition.
\n\u2022 Having a nice walk through the downtown area of Sofia and running into some of the most beautiful buildings on a nice sunny day!<\/p>\n


\"bulgaria\"<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Walking through the city neighborhoods and spotting a really cool local bird that was grey but with fluorescent blue markings on its wings.
\n\u2022 Seeing a bunch a stray dogs and cats lounging around all the streets and sidewalks.
\n\u2022\u00a0Watching a local group of little school kids and their teachers walk in line together as they go along their field trip for the day.
\n\u2022 Smelling the amazing smells of a local bakery. Geez, how could you not stop and check out their goods?!<\/p>\n

\"bulgaria\"
\n\u2022\u00a0Choosing one of the many day trips that I could have taken and doing it with 4 strangers and having a great time.
\n\u2022\u00a0Checking out the nearby mountains, thinking that there would be some green nature and then finding out that it was all snow still there.
\n\u2022\u00a0Being immersed in a completely silent place surrounded by beautiful trees and nature.
\n\u2022\u00a0Challenging myself to walk up a steep mountain incline, getting to the top and enjoying the view!<\/p>\n

\"bulgaria\"<\/p>\n

\u2022 Finding a really little Mexican restaurant on one of the streets in Sofia (didn’t eat at it), a kind of restaurant that looks like a food truck but was actually part of the nearby buildings. You could only order through a window.
\n\u2022 Checking out the main market in Sofia and deciding what I wanted to buy. I ended up going to a local lavender farmer and buying two jars of their lavender honey.
\n\u2022 Shopping in Sofia is great because the price of certain produce and products is so cheap!
\n\u2022 Enjoying the fact that I can read most Cyrillic letters and some basic Russian, so I wasn’t so in the dark when confronted with an important street sign or store sign for example.<\/p>\n

\"bulgaria\"<\/p>\n

\u2022 Seeing certain produce items (omg, the tomatoes) that I can get in my host country, but not as tasty as these ones looked! Feeling very jealous of the expats living here.
\n\u2022 Noticing that some of market stands had a really long line of people wanting to buy their specific produce. The locals know who to buy from I guess!<\/p>\n

\"bulgaria\"
\n\u2022 Going to an out-of-the-way restaurant, walking in and realizing nobody else was there. Started talking to the owner and worker and learning about their lives and the life of the restaurant. Great, unexpected cultural exchange.
\n\u2022 Deciding to take a short cut to get to a certain place while using Google Maps, but only to realize I was getting myself into a bit of a dangerous area for walking pedestrians (really close to a fast highway). \u00a0Making it out safe, and happy because I found a really cool spot to take a picture of some graffiti.<\/p>\n

Currently we have 106<\/b>\u00a0international schools listed in Eastern Europe\u00a0on\u00a0International School Community<\/a>. 55<\/strong>\u00a0of them\u00a0have had comments submitted on them. Here are a few of those schools:<\/p>\n

Albanian International School <\/a>(Tirana, Albania)<\/span> – 19 Comments
\n<\/strong>International School of Azerbaijan <\/a>(Baku, Azerbaijan)<\/span> – 39 Comments
\n<\/strong>QSI International School of Sarajevo <\/a>(Sarajevo, Bosnia)<\/span> – 18 Comments
\n<\/strong>Anglo American School of Sofia <\/a>(Sofia, Bulgaria)<\/span> – 49\u00a0Comments
\n<\/strong>American International School of Zagreb <\/a>(Zagreb, Croatia)<\/span> – 29 Comments
\n<\/strong>International School of Brno <\/a>(Brno, Czech Republic)<\/span> – 25 Comments
\n<\/strong>International School of Estonia <\/a>(Tallinn, Estonia)<\/span> – 22 Comments
\n<\/strong>Britannica International School Budapest <\/a>(Budapest, Hungary)<\/span> – 19 Comments
\n<\/strong>International School of Latvia <\/a>(Riga, Latvia)<\/span> – 33 Comments
\n<\/strong>American School of Warsaw <\/a>(Warsaw, Poland)<\/span> – 89 Comments
\n<\/strong>Wroclaw International School <\/a>(Wroclaw, Poland)<\/span> – 46 Comments
\n<\/strong>Anglo-American School of Moscow <\/a>(Moscow, Russia)<\/span> – 66 Comments
\n<\/strong>International School of Belgrade <\/a>(Belgrade, Serbia)<\/span> – 59 Comments
\n<\/strong>Pechersk School International <\/a>(Kyiv, Ukraine)<\/span> – 122 Comments<\/strong><\/p>\n

If you are on a trip\u00a0right now, away from your host country, write to us at\u00a0admin@internationalschoolcommunity.com<\/a>\u00a0with your “Can you relate?” traveling experiences.\u00a0 Tell us where you are traveling in the world, what you are seeing and how you are coping with any culture shock.\u00a0 Once your Traveling Around\u00a0experience\u00a0is posted\u00a0on our blog, International School Community will give you\u00a06 free months of premium membership!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Traveling Around:\u00a0Sofia, Bulgaria Can you relate? \u2022 Passing by a house that had a whole car in its front yard as a lawn decorative item! \u2022\u00a0Going through a city market, not a big touristy one, and enjoying all the little shops there; had a great “conversation” (many language barriers) with one store owner\/worker about her […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6256,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[50],"tags":[457,42,30,32,2383,1286,58,152,2381,287,603,2413,1214],"class_list":["post-6089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-traveling-around","tag-comments-and-information","tag-expat-life","tag-international-school-community","tag-international-schools","tag-international-schools-in-bulgaria","tag-international-teacher-life","tag-international-teachers","tag-teachers","tag-teaching-in-bulgaria","tag-traveling","tag-traveling-around-2","tag-traveling-around-bulgaria","tag-traveling-experiences"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/internationalschoolcommunity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/DSC_4683.jpg?fit=1000%2C667&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2flVT-1Ad","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6428,"url":"https:\/\/internationalschoolcommunity.com\/blog\/traveling-around-tirana-albania-life-international-school-teacher-good\/","url_meta":{"origin":6089,"position":0},"title":"Traveling Around: Tirana, Albania (The life of an international school teacher is good!)","author":"ISCommunity","date":"October 20, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Traveling Around: Tirana, Albania Can you relate? 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