An Introduction

First off, I want to introduce myself in case anyone who is reading this doesn't know who I am.

My name is Sarah, I'm 22 years old, and I just graduated from Abilene Christian University in Abilene, Texas with a degree in Marketing. I'm leaving for Bulgaria with the Peace Corps in July for 27 months to be a Community and Organizational Development Volunteer and I'm so excited/nervous/stressed about it! It's been a long process thats taken me over a year...a year of thinking, praying, talking with returned volunteers, and talking with friends and family. I suspect that I've talked to a majority of you who are reading this blog about this decision and I want to thank you for listening and for all your advice and support.

Hopefully this blog will stay up-to-date with information and pictures of my time in Bulgaria, but I don't make any promises!

So far this summer I've been learning the Bulgarian alphabet and basic words, which is craziness! Tonight I was reading one of the lessons that Peace Corps sent me and it says that Bulgarian is an easy language to learn for English speakers, which got my hopes up a little....but then I actually started looking at the letters, which are quite frightening! And then I downloaded tonight's evening news cast from Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria, which definitely scared me! Luckily I don't have much planned this summer except for getting ready to leave, so I've got plenty of time.