With a talk about Bulgaria

“Tell us about your country and what it was like growing up in communist Bulgaria.”

A friend of mine invited me to give a talk to his Presbyterian Church lunch group in San Diego.

“The bad and the good,” he said, ”Try to make it a balanced account.”

I arrived clad in a traditional Bulgarian dress embroidered in bright colors (the picture below ↓ ) ; arranged a display of ethnic materials, pictures and maps ( ←  look to the left); propped up a couple of communist posters with Lenin and Marx (you cannot see those, sorry); took a deep breath and let my life unfold in a balanced way, deeply worrying about my accent (look to the right → or down ↓ ).

Just make sure they can understand you, I was telling myself, speak slowly, enunciate well, don’t mess up words. Smile!

The challenge lurked from inside the content of my talk,

I was in a Presbyterian Church giving a talk about Communism, presenting its good sides!  → → →

My talk was popular, and I was invited to give it several more times to different organizations (look all around and up at the right corner.   ↑↓ ↔  ) 

People enjoyed learning about my Communist past and the excitment of life in Bulgaria. They wanted more. This project was born, to satisfy a need of seekers after the truth. And for my personal satisfaction too. 

To download the content  you will need a password. (Not everyone is fit to learn about Bulgaria.)