Relevantly Irrelevant
Originally posted on our EVS at Sofia City Library blog.
The Portuguese reading room is soon going to become the Korean reading room. For that reason, all of the books kept therein had to be moved to the Spanish reading room and section which from now on will likely be the Iberian section!
Meanwhile, we got some videos from the procedure and we thought they looked fun and representative of the good time we have in the library even when doing “manual work” like this, so I decided to up them.
Originally posted on the EVS Sofia City Library blog.
This video was an exercise in spontaneity: we came up with the idea for it, wrote the lyrics and the music, shot it, cut it and uploaded it within 6-7 hours. Extra footage is from our first Green Library event at Lyulin, which took place last Saturday, and, apart from the rain, which spoiled our plans a little bit, it was quite successful.
I mean, we even went to the Bulgarian National Radio for an interview. Valya, Boryana and Zanda were the ones who spoke the most, presenting our activities and inviting the listeners to our event in Lyulin, but it’s no small thing getting to speak in Bulgarian on the freakin’ national radio, if only just for 15 seconds! The people were kind enough to share the interview with us. Valya starts speaking at 0:25, Boryana at 2:00, Zanda at 4:00, Maria at 4:20, Vicente at 6:55 and myself at 07:10. Here it is:
Many thanks to Maria and Zanda, who had the original idea, and everyone else who helped make this a reality. See you next Saturday!
Our EVS friends Anna & Kuba live in Pernik, a city less than an hour away from Sofia, famous in Bulgaria for its tough, hard-headed people – a reputation probably rooted in its traditionally industrial and mining economy. There are lots of jokes made about people who come from this region, but our experience was completely different from the stereotype, as you will soon discover.
We are preparing a little performance in the streets of Sofia in July with Anna, Kuba, Florian, Gabi and others, and our visit to Pernik last Sunday was mainly for brainstorming, discussing the ideas and planning the event. We even did a little workshop prepared by Anna & Kuba’s supervisor on the top of a hill in a beautiful park in the centre of the city whose aim was helping us bond and work together as a single entity rather than a group of individuals.
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| Tai-chi-ho, tai-chi-ho! |
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| The chain of command… |
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| …one mistake can have the group collapse like a house of cards. |
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| Becoming one with the group |
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| “Add caption”, Blogger said. I just sat there, motionless. |
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| The brave Florian is about to fall in our arms. |
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| The brave Florian is falling in our arms. |
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| NOT footballs fans. |
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| Definitely not football fans. |
There was pizza, fruit salad, cherries, beer and wine. It rained after we left the park. It was a good day.
Our performance will be on the 12th of July. Catch it in a street of central Sofia near you.
Props to Kuba and his friend whose name I don’t remember for the pictures. Especially the last ones are very good, in true Kuba fashion.
It’s been a while since I last posted music on here. Heard the song for the first time on our EVS on-arrival training; Gabi from Lithuania put it on when we were drawing on eachother’s blank good-bye t-shirts. It’s now my official earworm of the last 4 days.
