To stay.. or not to stay..

Lana wrote:

Erm... Alex? What did you do to get rid of the corners in your room?

Well... first of all I read your messages, than Lerka's and than Grace's message.
Than I realised I love being here and write and talk to you all. Than I decided I shouldn't complain so much....

You are all very supportive and nice..I don't need my cold, heartless corners. Right??

Grace wrote:

Everyone here speaks much better English than I speak any of your native languages, so you should never be ashamed to write anything. Frankly, I'm amazed by all of you.

Thanks, Grace :<33: you're so nice!

If I'm not wrong, I think you translated part of one BG interview of Albie and Max. It was you? I was surprised, do you speak Bulgarian?

It was me, yes. My Bulgarian is terrible, I can hardly write or speak it, but I can read it okay because I do speak Russian and during my last year at law school I wrote my major paper about education law in Bulgaria, and an awful lot of that material was only available in Bulgarian. So I got a Bulgarian-English dictionary and spent a lot of time that semester translating, like, entire court decisions. It took a very, very, very long time.

Now I'm trying to reteach myself :study: because I'm applying for a position that might possibly end up with me in Bulgaria if I get the position at all. But unfortunately with my current job I have absolutely no time to study.

Grace wrote:

... an awful lot of that material was only available in Bulgarian. So I got a Bulgarian-English dictionary and spent a lot of time that semester translating, like, entire court decisions. It took a very, very, very long time.

Wow this is wonderful! I mean, it's wonderful that you speak Russian and some Bulgarian

Grace wrote:

Now I'm trying to reteach myself :study: because I'm applying for a position that might possibly end up with me in Bulgaria if I get the position at all.

I wish you good luck (if you want the job) and I hope you'll have more time to study [/quote]

Grace wrote! about the translation of the interview!

Quote :

It was me, yes. My Bulgarian is terrible, I can hardly write or speak it, but I can read it okay because I do speak Russian and during my last year at law school I wrote my major paper about education law in Bulgaria, and an awful lot of that material was only available in Bulgarian. So I got a Bulgarian-English dictionary and spent a lot of time that semester translating, like, entire court decisions. It took a very, very, very long time.

Now I'm trying to reteach myself :study: because I'm applying for a position that might possibly end up with me in Bulgaria if I get the position at all. But unfortunately with my current job I have absolutely no time to study.

WOWWW, GRACE!!! THANK YOU!!
I am impressed!!!

I wish you good luck for your future job!!

BESOS!!

Grace wrote:

Now I'm trying to reteach myself :study: because I'm applying for a position that might possibly end up with me in Bulgaria if I get the position at all. But unfortunately with my current job I have absolutely no time to study.

Dear Grace, your actual job sounds so hard. You seem to have a lot of work and the pressure is high. I sincerelly hope you'll have some time for you, to relax, to relearn bulgarian and for everything else you want to do.
At least, I hope the job is rewarding

Take care...

I forgot to thank you for the details about competitions. It was very interesting to read all that...beetwen lines

alexandra wrote:

Dear Grace, your actual job sounds so hard. You seem to have a lot of work and the pressure is high. I sincerelly hope you'll have some time for you, to relax, to relearn bulgarian and for everything else you want to do.
At least, I hope the job is rewarding

Take care...

I forgot to thank you for the details about competitions. It was very interesting to read all that...beetwen lines

You are very welcome.

My job... oh, my job. It's not really that it's very difficult, it might be for someone with no legal training, but for a lawyer it's an easy job. It is high pressure, though-- my job is to review documents that might be used as evidence in a very big lawsuit, and the court order is that we have to have them ready on 1 August, but there are 25 MILLION pages of documents to get through. So I (and of course the other people who are also doing this job) work from 08.00 to 19.00 from Monday to Friday, and 08.30 to 17.00 on Saturday and Sunday. Tuesday will be my first day off in a month, because it's Independence Day here and even this law firm is not crazy enough to try to make us come in on a holiday like that.

Of course, there are good things, too. I really like most of the people I'm working with, the job pays very well, and (the best thing ) all of the documents we're reviewing are kept on a particular web server, so if we're at work and the server goes down (which it does quite often ) they have to pay us even though we're not working.

Yesterday the computers were down and I got paid $300 while doing nothing but watching the Portugal/England match.

Grace wrote:

So I (and of course the other people who are also doing this job) work from 08.00 to 19.00 from Monday to Friday, and 08.30 to 17.00 on Saturday and Sunday. Tuesday will be my first day off in a month, because it's Independence Day here and even this law firm is not crazy enough to try to make us come in on a holiday like that.

Almost 12 hours...huh. It's pretty much...so, I bet a day off is more than welcomed. Enjoy and relax...

Grace wrote:

Yesterday the computers were down and I got paid $300 while doing nothing but watching the Portugal/England match.

hehehe....good for you
So, this is the best part in your job, right?!