By Iliana Dimitrova Facing a classroom full of teenagers can be daunting, almost as scary as walking across hot coals for the uninitiated. Luckily for the new cohort of Fulbright English Teaching Assistants (ETAs), the Commission staff planned a week of fun and...
Interview by Viktoria Dailova Although she set foot for the first time in Bulgaria just a month ago, California native Hayden Hill has been hearing about the country since she was a child, thanks to her Bulgarian-American grandmother. This family connection inspired...
Interview by Viktoria Dailova A cozy town an hour outside Sofia, Pravets is famous in Bulgaria for being the birthplace of two things: the communist-era leader Todor Zhivkov and the country’s first personal computer, aptly named the Pravetz (and suspiciously similar...
Interview by Rada Kaneva Dr. Petia Yanchulova Merica-Jones has lived not just one extraordinary life, but several. A two-time Olympic athlete in beach volleyball (Sydney 2000, Athens 2004), she later pivoted to an entirely different frontier — astrophysics. Today, as...
By Rada Kaneva Eleonora Edreva, or Ele, as her friends call her, is a Fulbright Student Researcher whose project explores the intersection of organic awareness and traditional crafts through natural dyeing. With Bulgarian roots and a deep passion for textiles, Ele set...
By Viktoria Dailova On October 13, 2024, Fulbright | America for Bulgaria ETA Mercedes Janis checked an item off her bucket list by completing the full 26-mile Wizz Air Sofia Marathon. “This was my first, but definitely not last, marathon,” she says....
