Time to say Goodbye!

It's been a hectic week.

Last weekend I had the most amazing Goodbye party with my girlfriends :) Yeah.... we ate, we drank, we danced, then we drank some more, we sang, we hugged, we kissed.... we remembered the good old times and it was rly rly great. I went back home at like 9 AM... Thank you guys YOU ROCK! I AM SOOOOO GONNA MISS U. Everyone please e-mail me their home address so that I can send you postcards from whereever I am.

Monday morning I had to go for the c1D visa interview, which wasn't even an interview. I went to the American embassy, handed in all the docs required, qued to get my fingerprints taken and then waited some more and I was called and said "Everything is OK, you will receive your visa in a few days". And in fact in my mind I was going through all the smart answers I was gonna give them, and show off my understanding of the job and the position, so when they didn't ask anything at all I was like "Oh...um...OK". Yeah, big dissapointment. :) I had one tricky moment though - it turned out on my way to the first que I had lost my photos, and I started rly panicing, but then a security guy came and gave them back. So all went smoothly and I received my visa on Tuesday. The STCW95 cert also arrived on Monday, so I was all set.
Send all the docs to the UK office, just to discover I had completely forgotten about the medical insurance. Yeah.... here we go again - another 150 leva down the drain.

This week I tried to meet up with all of my friends and say goodbye and hug and kiss. So Wednesday was the day with another very good friend. It was also a public holiday in Bulgaria and all the main streets were closed so it was a very nice time chatting and walking around downtown Sofia where there were no cars and absolutely no traffic. Nice weather, nice company. Slav, take good care of my two children and do not abuse them :) Gonna miss talking to u, buddy :) And working out with u too :)

Yesterday and today - lastminute shopping. I ended up buying 15 pairs of socks and 10 pairs of stockings....yep, coz if u are wearing a skirt its compulsory to wear thights. I also had dinner with my family and my mom's collegue, who is a good friend of ours (more like a part of our family). We ended up drinking cheap wine until midnight, so today I had quite a rough start.

Funny enough all the time I was thinking 26th Sept was Saturday, while in fact it is Sunday and I only came to realise this yesterday. So I guess it would have been a very "Atilova" thing to go to the airport on Sat morning, thinking it was the 26th :) Yeah that would have been just plain stupid. Bigtime :)

I guess next time when I post It will be from the ship, so just wanted to say Goodbye to all of u whom I did not see personally or have not spoken to over the phone. Keep your fingers crossed and wish me good weather, coz lately I have been freaking out over seasickness.

O BTW I met this girl from Manchester who will be joining the ship on 26th too. She seems pretty cool, so I might have found a buddy there. We'll see.

So, everyone, eat, love, and CROSSFIT :) Love ya loads :) Miss ya even more.