She’s stuffing honey, lokum, banitsa, walnuts, kachamak, and turshiya, as you desperately try to drive off to Studentski Grad.
You take it as a personal task to feed the economy, which is why you spend your hard-earned leva at the mall on Boulevard Stamboliyski.
..or Cacao Beach, or Albena, or any other Black Sea resort with a cold beer and sizzling skara.
There definitely was a mighty Bulgarian Empire bordering 4 seas! (Just don’t ask me what year that was.)
You speak English of course, since it’s a mandatory subject, but you are most likely fluent in at least one more language, be it Spanish, German of French, since you’re definitely aiming to work in Western Europe.
Let’s be real, class attendance was never your highest priority. You’d rather sip Nescafé Frappé than sit in class, listening to the sad story of Vasil Levski.
Seriously, what woman would not swoon before the sight of Dimitar’s mighty calves, chiseled abs, and brilliant smile?
You grew up watching Marissa and Ryan’s struggles in The OC, Peggy’s ginger main in Married with Children and Sally Spectra’s dominance in The Bold & the Beautiful. Your Facebook name reads “Jane” instead of Yana.
Because vacation packages go for as low as 180 leva (120 USD) and it’s only a 6-hour bus ride from Sofia — no excuses.
And how could they not be? They are a mix of Russian, Greek, Turkish, and Roman!
Hello, everyone knows John Atanasov!
You know how to make your здрасти into zdrasti like a true hieroglyph wizard.
Chances are you can’t afford to leave Sofia’s Vrazhdebna airport, so instead spend hours googling images of the Eiffel tower, Ko Phi Phi, NYC, and the Easter Islands.
Partly because of the angry conductor yelling “Biletcheta!” when in fact you, just like everyone else, did not purchase a ticket.
You let it slip that a boy asked you on a date and 5 minutes later, your grandma — the detective — has already asked the entire mahala about his parent’s occupation, reputation, and annual income.
There’s nothing better than waking up to the scent of fresh mekitsi and ayran for breakfast, breathing the fresh scent of bor in the air.
Haven’t you heard that the vital yogurt bacteria is named lactobacillus bulgaricus?! It was our invention, so give us the credit we deserve.
Enhance every meal with the divine, spongy substance. Put it on luchnik, pirojki, kachamak, french fries, tomatoes and even pupej. 