Bulgaria News and Photos

Hey all, head over to the Bulgaria photo blog to see new photos of Sofia. I know they are small versions, but clicking on them will bring up the full size image. I recommend it.

I'm heading to Turkey for the Thanksgiving break and am excited. I hear it's a real photogenic city so look forward to more interesting images. I'm in the middle of processing slides taken over the summer. Some are from my trip down to California job fair that culminated in my ending up here. Also have good ones from the annual Winchester Wasteway trip, Heather and I's trip to Cape Alava as well as lots of vivid surreal shots from up on the Tin Pan fire. Don't care what you digital gurus say, slide film quality still kicks ass. It just takes forever to process the images...

Things in Bulgaria are going OK, looking forward to the upcoming breaks. Can't wait until my Jamaica trip to see my family and friends. It's gonna be hard to head back to BG. At least I have lots of snowboarding to look forward to. Kind of been coming up short on adventures lately, although I did have a pretty wicked crash on my skateboard last week. It involved a parked car, a curb, and lots of concrete. Ouch. I think if I'm gonna do this whole Urban Warrior thing I may need a mountain bike and a helmet...

My teacher only band which is going by the title of "Lost at Sea With Richard Parker" is having a lot of fun putting songs together. My folks were awesome and shipped over my double pedal and other gear. One of the kids here has a pretty nice drum kit set up at school in the jam room so I end up using it a lot. Still teaching drum lessons every Wednesday, playing in a student-teacher band(#2) on Thursdays and co-teaching a photography elective on Fridays. This last Friday I put together a photo assignment draft. The kids picked numbers out of a hat and picked their assignment according to what number they drew. I tried to emulate National Geographic style topics like "Fashion and Attitude," "The Wild Dogs of Sofia," and "History and Change -40 days until the EU." They are also putting together individual portfolios so they can take away something of artistic quality away from the class. I'm putting together a collection of Bulgarian graffiti myself to show them what I mean. There is some really great graffiti here, it's definitely evolved into an art form of itself. I have already collected a decent size body of pictures that I'm going to make into a portfolio.

Well that's it for now, plan on more stories after my Istanbul vacation.
Cheers!
Aaron