In our final full day of the trip, we got to experience multiple unique parts of Bulgarian culture. From 10:00 to 12:00 we were given free time to explore Stara Zagora, and at lunch we met in the park to eat. After this, we went to “The Old Cellar”, an…
Today was a strenuous day, which included engaging in physical activities during the middle of the day where the temperature peaked. My group in particular was especially arduous as our activities included capture the flag and races, the Bulgarians did all that we asked without breaking a sweat, this however…
Day No.5 Today, we have experienced the headache of trying to look after children. I can honestly say I don’t think that my brain is going to recover for quite a while, although most of the children were well behaved (There were some loud ones but never mind). Both classes…
We started off the day with some eggs for breakfast and soon after headed out to the International Youth Centre in Stara Zagora. The sun was beaming down on us, making the journey to the centre very tiring and exhausting. However, when we got…
Today we went to a kindergarten, to refurbish it ready for the children to come back in September. Although it was hot and Danielle was being goofy as always lol we got the job done. It’s pretty unbelievable how relaxing applying varnish…
Welcome to the second day of our Splendid experience in Bulgaria, in the wonderful city of Stara Zagora. Today our ambitious teenagers held games and challenges for the youth centre, although it was an obstacle to communicate with the children, they overcame their fears and many made friends and exchanged…
Welcome to our first blog post all the way from Bulgaria! Our first mission as XLP Bulgaria was to get to our destination Stara Zagora. This was no easy task, we started from our rendezvous point at St Pauls academy at the crack of dawn to board the minibus generously…
Apologies for not blogging yesterday – it was an action packed day filled with much fun and sadly a camera malfunction! So you will have to wait for the full stories in person from your delightful children. Today we said goodbye to Stara Zagora and journeyed back to Sofia. It was…
Today the working week ended! On our last day working with the children of Stara Zagora, we met with the same kids as yesterday – being recognised and saying our hellos was great, especially with the younger kids who got very excited to see us again – and split them…
As neither of us cried today, you could probably say that we are the least qualified two people to write the post for the last day of teaching. Duncan: Needless to say, this was an emotional day for many of us, as we have spent the past 5 days teaching…
