It's Been a While!

Well, I know this blog post is longgggggggggggg overdue. It seems like Ive just fallen off the face of the Earth. Which in a way is partly true. After that 4th of July post, things got really crazy. Ill try to be brief and catch you all up to speed. So here we go.....

First there was MST (Mid Service Training), yet ANOTHER training offered by PC to help volunteers..um, refocus?!!? I used it as a small get away from my damn site, and a chance to reconnect with Matt, Amanda and some other volunteers to 1. make fun of other volunteers, 2. talk shit about our sites, 3. drink my ass off, and 5. relax and eat on PC's dime, and last but not least, 5. get juicy blog material. And as I suspected, all of the above was completed to a T.

Matt and I hung out as usual and made fun of the usal suspects. But time has turned most of the vols in my group into great candidates for mock and I was actually excited. I took notes to ensure I wouldnt forget anything, but just to move this process along, Ill keep those to myself.

Next was the Diversity session for the new group of vols. I had to talk about being a Black vol in my site and in Bulgaria. I tried to be as honest as possible, and told the new vols about my negative experiences. Other than one black girl who for obvious reasons was very interested in what the hell I was saying, the other vols kinda just listened and kept it moving. I suppose I cant really blame them, at no point in their service will anyone scratch the word nigga down their door, I can guarantee that. But they all just seemed so unphased by what we had to say. Well anyway, Crystal was there and she spoke about her experiences as a Black vol too and after we got to hang out.

Oh that reminds me, another one of the vols in my group spoke. Now Im not gonna say any names or tell who this particular vol is, but I will say homeboy is greatly disallusioned. He had the NERVE to say that while here, he has NEVER felt any type of racism or anything negative due to his physical appearance. BULLSHIT. thats all I kept thinkin while he was talking. He felt that his "positive" experience as a minority here was useful for the new vols to hear. He uses his experiences as a teaching tool to Bulgarians who look at him differently or inquire aloud in Bulgarian what race he is. PURE FOOLISHNESS. I think he is bullshitting himself and choosing not to see that people can be rude or mean to him due to his race. Now thats not to say that because he is a minority that this WILL DEFINATELY happen, but I happen to know for a fact that he had problems with his host family, and it was partly due to the fact that he did not "look like the stereotypical American white male" (his words) and because he closely resembled Roma people (a PC staff members words). Anyway, someone needs to slap some sense into him...ASAP

After that, came Milan, again. Mom was there again and needed me to help with something so I went to chill for a couple days. It was really nice. I LOVE Milan and had such a good time. The food was awesome, we went to this one bar that had the best Vanilla Cosmopolitans EVER, and there were a whole bnunch of sales. I spent way more money than I wanted to, Snapped some nice pics of the city, and even went to a photo shoot with one of the models and conducted a open casting call for a future show in NY. Friggin Amazing....(pics to come soon)

Then I got back Milan and a whole bunch of drama happened with PC. Then I decided to leave Bulgaria for good. YES I know, this may come as a shock to a lot of you, but I am actually writing this blog post from New York. (Ill blog about leaving lata). Now Im lookin for a job, a place to live and wondering how to fit in to a place that is so damn big and has so much goin on. Uuuhhh, my f*ckin crazy life......