Salads Galore for Kamila

Who said you have to have salads only in the summer? One of Kamila's favourite foods is salad, they just hit the mark she says whenever a bowl of plate is tucked into.Right throughout the year salad is part of everyday eating, winter is no exception...

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The First Christmas Eve for Kamila in Bulgaria

It was celebrations all round as Bulgaria celebrated its biggest party of the year on New Year Eve. Kamila really didn't know what to expect as this was the first Christmas here, but it didn't take long for her to get an insight as to what goes on during...

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Money For Christmas Shopping

Well it's now approaching the time to do a little shopping we told Kamila today. We had set a little money aside for Kamila to do here Christmas shopping. Kamila had not dealt with money before so she was a bit bemused when we presented it to her.She...

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Kamila Wins an Award!

Kamila was 'over the moon' when she found out that she had been given and award."What was it for?" was the first thing that came out of her smiling mouth."Well Kamila, you'd better read the message that came with it." we suggested.This award stands...

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Kamila Helps With The Christmas Tree

Today was a day where Kamila got all excited, she was going to help with the Christmas tree. this is her first Christmas in Bulgaria and she couldn't quite understand why there wasn't such a fuss here compared to the madness she saw in Hamley's Toy Shop...

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Kamila On Call with a GSM (Mobile phone)

Kamila is now a very happy camel as she is now part of the Global community that have a mobile phone. In Bulgaria a mobile phone is called a GSM. How did this come about.It was an early Christmas present as we found a spare GSM whilst doing a bit of...

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Kamila the New Bulgarian Route Master

We were due to go to Stara Zagora last weekend but forecast for snow put us and we are now due to try again tis coming weekend. Kamila was to come with us as she really doesn't get out enough.When Kamila found that she was to coming with us, the questons...

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Boiled Bulgarian Cabbage Stew

Kamila is such a helpful Camel around the house, when she is not playing with here friend, her helping hand is always there and today was no exception.It is on the borders of winter now in Bulgaria and one of the most favourite of foods in this season,...

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The Bulgarian Calendar

Every day that goes by Kamila has a little glance at a Bulgarian calendar that is pinned to a cupboard in the kitchen. It is a daily fascination as she tries to say the new day in Bulgarian.In the middle of the calendar is a picture of Jesus and underneath...

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Plastic Flowers for a Birthday

This day the 4th of November, was a special one for one of the household. It was something that Kamila knew about as recently she was the focus of another special day. It was someone's birthday, Roshden Den (Birthday Day) as they call it here in Bulgaria.Yesterday...

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All Smiles This Week

It was all smiles this week as Kamila looks back over last weekend. We promised her as a Birthday present a trip to Skalitsa to see all her friends that she made there on her holiday in the summer. She was in a village dream world again as she met everyone...

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Happy Birthday Celebration for Kamila

Well it has been a while now since Kamila's arrival in Bulgaria and today was a very special day, it was Kamila's birthday. Now Kamila being a female Camel and past the age of being a child camel she never gives her age away anymore.It was quite fun...

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A New Friend Called Marta

Away from serious matters for a while Kamila has a new friend for life. Marta is a bear of great experience; she has come originally from Scotland, spent some time in England then Cyprus and now finds herself in Bulgaria. Who knows where else she will...

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Hunting and Killing for Fun

It was a Kamila that was shocked totalling today as she naturally wanted to find out what animal skin was hanging up on the bedroom wardrobe.Not used to human ways really showed as Kamila was told that this was a fox skin. She asked why the fox was killed...

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Religious Camel

It was a big day for Kamila as she saw the light for the first time in her life.Sitting by the bed was a couple of pictures of Mary and Jesus Christ, every morning a little prayer is said by them. Kamila watches as this happens, but hadn't said anything...

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Good Work Then Play

Kamila has a routine now and Friday is washing day as she help load the washing machine, which she knows all about. Then it's into the garden yard to hang the washing out to dry. Separating items that need ironing and finally putting all the clean clothes...

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Picture on a Book

It has been two weeks now since Kamila returned to Yambol an she was missing being surrounded by the wonderful nature and the Skalitsa countryside. She caught a glimpse of a sight she had seen a few time on the cover of a book. It was a picture of a...

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Lots to Talk About

It's been a while now since Kamila got back to Yambol and the best moment was seeing Eli again. She had missed here so much and there was so much to talk about.So that's exactly what they did, everyday another sotry was told by Kamila about her time...

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Kamila back Home

Kamila arrived at her new home and after a good nights sleep she requested that she now doesn't want to continue this daily diary as this is not what she is here for.She had decided for quite some time now to live her new life with her Bulgarian friends...

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Back to Yambol

It was a long and lonely path today as Kamila made her way to the car. She was on her way back to Yambol after some three weeks holiday on the Skalitsa Farmhouse. She had a wonderful time and fond out how different it is in the villages compared to the...

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Storks in Skalitsa

Kamila was feeling quite sad today. The reason was quite simply that tomorrow was the last day here holidaying on the Skalitsa farmhouse. She will be very sorry to go, but at the same time be happy to get back to here friends she left behind in Yambol.She...

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Why a Fence?

"Why have you put a wire fence all around you house?" Kamila asked as she surveyed the front garden once again. "If there was no stealing here and no crime wouldn't it be better to take it down, it spoils the view.""Kamila," we said. The fencing isn't...

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Three Tools for Self-Sufficiency

It was a monster knife Kamila caught site of in the summer house and getting close it dwarfed here as she to sat on the Bulgarian spade.We told here that the big knife is a Bulgarian Scythe which cuts the long grass for hay. The Bulgarian spade she sat...

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Barbecue to Come

Inside the summer house we keep out little barbecue set. Kamila was used to barbecues but she had never seen one using a kit, it was always with a couple of stones and dead wood in Egypt."Can we use this one day so I can see it work?" Was the request...

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Water on Tap In Skalitsa (sometimes)

Another spot on the farm and another interest as Kamila looks now at the watering system in the garden. She know about this from Yambol where water is on tap in the garden.We told here that there are many times when the water is cut off and we have to...

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Sausage Shaped Tomatoes

"Sausage shaped tomatoes!" Kamila called out as she took a different turn on the farm to find another field of crops that we had grown there."They're not tomatoes Kamila, they're red peppers" we called back.It was an easy mistake to make as both the...

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First it was the tomatoes now another food growing on the farm had the attention of Kamila. She just can't believed how much food is just lying around the farm. Everywhere she looks there is something growing that we will use to eat or store for winter.We...

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Hanging Tomatoes

As Kamila brushed past the garden there was something that stood out like a sore thumb. It wasn't only the sight of a bright red tomato that caught here eye but the strong smell of the tomato plants as they were touched.Kamila had of course seen tomatoes...

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Night Light for Moths

Another point of interest as Kamila walked through the grounds of the Skalitsa Farmhouse yard. "I know it's a lantern, we have them in Egypt and they use oil." she said referring the the dangling lantern. "Where do you put the oil?" she enquired.It uses...

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Too Much Farm Work

Every day in Skalitsa, Kamila learns something new. She now knows that it is totally different from the town life. Things here are much slower, but at the same time there are far more jobs to be done."I don't know whether I could move here and live here."...

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Sour Grapes

It was a later night last night as Kamila saw the mushroom lights working lighting up the garden. It was like fairyland to Kamila.Above Kamia's head now in the terrace, there were something special, a natural Bulgarian treasure. She was about to discover...

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Mushroom Light

"Wow a mushroom!" Kamila said, as she confronted the object in front of her in the garden."It's may look like a mushroom but it's not, wait until tonight Kamila, it will light up like magic," we told her.Kamila's eyes widen as she asked if she could...

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Plastic Bottles

On the way out to the garden this morning Kamila spotted a plastic bottle hanging from the grapevine. What's that?" was the inevitable question.We told here that is hangs there to scare flies away. We went further to explain that as the flies get close...

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Window Watching Kamila

It was late afternoon, Kamila had had a lay in as she was a bit tired with all this tree climbing yesterday, she decided to spend a most of the day indoors.Looking out of the window was a sight that she had never really had a chance to see ever before....

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Kamila helps make Skalitsa Banitsas

It was with great fascination that Kamila watched me make the Skalitsa Banitsas early this morning. Kamila didn't realise how all the ingredients put together in different ways made the end result taste so good. Kamila even helped with the mixing of...

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The Linden Tree

It was in the garden by the side of the Skalitsa Farmhouse that Kamila caught sight of a big tree. "What tree is this?" Kamila asked."It's a linden tree Kamila, the type of tree that we can pick the flowers in spring and make tea with them, you saw the...

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The Flyscreen

It was a mystery to Kamila as to why we had two doors. We explained one was for security and to keep the weather our. The other we told here was to keep insects and bugs out of the house as some of them bite and sting."I don't have a problem with being...

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The Wood Burning Stove

It was with much curiosity that Kamila took with the chunky black wood burner that sat in the living room."What is this?" was the expected question as Kamila walked up to observe."It's a wood burning stove and we use it to warm the house up, heat water...

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Tired Teddies

Kamila was up rather later this morning, the fresh air just knocked her out, there is no pollution here in the village and you can see for miles and miles if you look out onto the garden. You =can even see the mountainous Turkish border to the south...

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Up Early

Kamila woke up very early this morning, 5:00 but that what they do in the villages. Kamila said that the silence in the night brought back memories of Egypt, there wasn't a sound to be heard at night there either.First off, Kamila had new friends to...

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Kamila in Skalitsa

It had been a whole since Kamila had a holiday, in fact when we asked her she didn't know what a holiday was. We had to explain that sometimes it was called a break or a vacation and was something you do when you have time off work.It seemed that Kamila...

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Hi-Tech Kamila

Kamila was watching television this evening and suddenly the channel changed and from watching 'Deal or No Deal' the Bulgarian News appeared. She just couldn't understand why this happened.Baba wanted to see the news and she have used the remote controls...

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"I Love Rock 'n' Roll" Kamila

It isn't often we listen to the radio in the home, the television is on most of the time, not watched but just as a background to conversation, that normal in Bulgarian.Kamila therefore doesn't often get to hear much music, so when we tuned into the...

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Fresh Breath Kamila

Just before we went to bed Kamila asked what we do before we actually get into bed. She said that strange noises can be heard in the bathroom every night before we go into the bedroom.We had to think hard and ask Kamila to explain what sort of sound...

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Bad Tasting Coffee

Kamila is such a curious camel that she wants to know about everything, today was no exception.It was a cup of black coffee that took her interest as it lay there steaming away on the table."What's that?" was the inevitable question that comes to us...

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Roses All Round

Kamila really felt sorry for Bandit who only has one arm. She didn't sleep too well last night thinking about the problems he would have with this disability.So this morning Kamila, a tired Kamila, got a rose and went give it to Bandit, but bandit wasn't...

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One Armed Bandit

"Hello, who are you?" was the immediate question Kamila asked to a stranger who suddenly appeared this morning."Hi I'm Bandit, who are you?" the little figure replied.After the initial introduction Kamila found out all about Bandit. He was from the Yambol...

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Upsidedown Kamila

Kamila had been practising standing on two legs all day and was getting much better at it. then she had an idea to try and do a hand stand but it wasn't a handstand because she hasn't any hands."Look at me!" she called out, "I'm doing a hoofstand!" We...

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Four-Legged Argument

Kamila had always walked and stood on four legs, she find it very funny that humans balance on two legs, surely four is better than two she argues. She contests that if we all walked on four legs there would be less accident falling over etc.She has...

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