Author: teanna2day

  • capturing speed

    While you cannot actually catch speed, I caught its evidence on the train in Austria. I was told the trains travel up to 300 km/h.

  • to munich with a friend

    It is late on Wednesday evening and I have transitioned from coffee to tea. Tonight, I am enjoying Turkish apple while the girls finish their homework. There is a clarinet practice session – level 1 -happening in the background accompanied by the soft hum of the dishwasher. Another line of dirty supper plates are waiting…

  • write

    I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world. Mother Theresa

  • two places

    I find myself torn between the quaintness of Diosd, this small Hungarian village with a lot of German influence and the amazing life and diversity of Budapest.  To be honest, we live in both.  Our address is the last street in Budapest but the nearest anything is in Diosd.  It takes us 3 minutes to…

  • classroom 101

    A few months ago, I promised the English teacher at school that I would take all of her classes while she went on her honeymoon.  I love to teach and I get to have my girls and their friends as students.  Last week was a highlight for me even though it meant I had to…

  • the city

    I remember the first time they built a mall in Sofia.  We had already been living there for some 4 years and survived nicely without that modern, western convenience.  With the mall came Burger King, H&M, and then one happy pre-Thanksgiving Day, Starbucks! I also remember the day we spent in Budapest on our way…

  • on the danube

    2012.  The New Year.  It represents new starts, new resolutions, new beginnings, new rhthyms.  If that is the definition, then our family began 2012 in August when we moved from our home in Bulgaria to Budapest, Hungary.  I imagined that I would blog all the way through the journey, but things rarely work out as…