International: okay i think it's recording and it should all go into their correct place uh so hi i am c forty seven p one and you're

Bulgarian: hm uh hi i am c forty seven p two

International: perfect so i guess i can start reading the text and then we can switch uh to just chatting okay so please call stella ask her to bring these things with her from the store six spoons of fresh snow peas five thick slabs of blue cheese and maybe a snack for her brother bob we also need a small plastic snake and a big toy frog for the kids she can scoop these things into three red bags and we will go meet her wednesday at the train station your turn

Bulgarian: okay please call stella ask her to bring these things with her from the store six spoons of fresh snow peas five thick slabs of blue cheese and maybe a snack for her brother bob we also need a small plastic snake and a big toy frog for the kids she can scoop these things into three red bags and we will go meet her wednesday at the train station

International: cool

Bulgarian: yep

International: great so i think we're done now so we need to finish this conversation in fifteen minutes so that would be mm ten to

Bulgarian: i am actually not sure i think uh fifteen minutes is the minimum but you can go on for longer

International: well sure we we could go for longer but why <laugh>

Bulgarian: yeah

International: why do it

Bulgarian: yeah yeah

International: yeah also i think zoom automatically started stopping at forty minutes in

Bulgarian: oh

International: uh it used to be unlimited for two people but now uh for some reason it only allows you forty minutes

Bulgarian: interesting very interesting

International: yeah i wonder what changed but um

Bulgarian: hmm

International: i am pasting so they gave us some conversation topics

Bulgarian: oh wow

International: um in case we didn't know each other uh

Bulgarian: do we know each other

International: i don't know do we

Bulgarian: i'm not sure

International: so yeah i suppose maybe we can talk about that considering we spoke yesterday and a few hours ago

Bulgarian: yeah sure why not okay

International: yeah so but but yeah like before we can go into our first conversation i was gonna ask do you <laugh> do you what what did you do did you have dinner in the meantime

Bulgarian: yeah i did yep i did

International: what what did you have

Bulgarian: spaghetti yeah spaghetti pasta

International: cool

Bulgarian: 'cause every student has

International: yeah

Bulgarian: pasta yeah

International: yeah i think i've reached a point where i just couldn't eat any more penne pasta like even now it just makes me starve

Bulgarian: oh wow

International: so i never order it

Bulgarian: wow

International: in a restaurant

Bulgarian: how often did you eat it though

International: maybe once a week <laugh> there was a time when

Bulgarian: i mean yeah okay that that sounds like my situation yeah

International: yeah that's so <overlap> <laugh> yeah

Bulgarian: this is basically my situation right now so <laugh>

International: yeah i used to buy these jars of uh pasta sauce and i think i would probably use maybe one third or one half of it for one meal and then save the rest for another day and i'd just feed myself like that

Bulgarian: wow okay yeah

International: mm hmm so

Bulgarian: i mean yeah my friends i i used to eat them with ketchup

International: mm hmm

Bulgarian: the spaghetti but uh my friends made fun of me of that so right now that i just make my own sauces then yeah

International: i mean were they italian your friends

Bulgarian: no they're not italian they're all bulgarian like uh yeah

International: well

Bulgarian: i find that they think it's disgusting but i think they do not understand

International: that's probably true i mean i i remember when we used to go to babichka's place uh and she she used to make i think spaghetti with ketchup and uh

Bulgarian: did we

International: the grated kashkaval at least for me i think it was special occasions when that happened like feta cheese and

Bulgarian: yeah no but uh yeah

International: that was a treat maybe maybe i didn't go as often

Bulgarian: i think dad did that

International: who did that

Bulgarian: dad but i'm not sure

International: yeah yeah i'm p he probably still does it maybe i'm confusing my memories as well

Bulgarian: he still does it yeah

International: yeah

Bulgarian: yeah

International: i guess um i don't know for me when i move from one place to another it feels that all of my previous memories become so much more distant and like it's so much harder to access them

Bulgarian: hmm

International: in yeah including recent memories for example things that happened before two thousand sixteen seem to me like in a different life um so

Bulgarian: yeah that's possible yeah

International: yeah

Bulgarian: i can start relating to that

International: yeah i guess you still haven't moved

Bulgarian: hmm

International: enough

Bulgarian: exactly

International: mm hmm <breath>

Bulgarian: hm do you wanna go to the questions

International: <laugh> sure

Bulgarian: <laugh> yeah

International: which one grabs your attention

Bulgarian: uh i haven't read them all so um let me see

International: did you ever play a sport or have another hobby as a kid did you play any sports

Bulgarian: i mean play sports i used to play uh yeah i played the water sports but i never like did play a certain sport for a long time

International: hmm

Bulgarian: i started with i think table tennis when i was really young

International: hmm

Bulgarian: before school even i did not wait for

International: i have so so you have a memory of that

Bulgarian: yeah it was in the like i don't know what's the sports hall and

International: uh uh

Bulgarian: i'm not sure what it's called but yeah

International: uh uh

Bulgarian: it was in the basement over there

International: how old were you

Bulgarian: i i think i i was like six

International: uh uh

Bulgarian: i i don't think i had started going to school back then i'm not sure

International: wow

Bulgarian: or first or second grade something like that

International: okay

Bulgarian: i was really young then i remember uh in school they gave like discounted lessons for proper tennis

International: mm hmm

Bulgarian: so yeah uh

International: oh yeah i remember when you used

Bulgarian: yeah

International: to go for that yeah

Bulgarian: yeah i went for that uh then one of my friends got kicked out from there from the tennis court

International: why

Bulgarian: uh because he insulted on of the <laugh> the coaches

International: oh no

Bulgarian: yeah

International: do i know this person maybe no we shouldn't be using any names

Bulgarian: yeah

International: so let's keep this anonymous <laugh>

Bulgarian: yep

International: wow

Bulgarian: i still talk to him today but yeah

International: okay well tell me after this call <laugh>

Bulgarian: yeah i'll tell you <laugh> so yeah that was then i think i would did basketball

International: mm hmm

Bulgarian: i played basketball for some time i think

International: was it at school

Bulgarian: yeah it was at school in middle school like from like

International: hmm

Bulgarian: fifth to sixth grade i played basketball

International: i feel like a really bad sister because i didn't know <overlap>

Bulgarian: i mean you were like you were

International: i was away the whole time

Bulgarian: yeah you are away like

International: but still like i i wish i knew all these details

Bulgarian: i mean i didn't i didn't practice basketball that often it wasn't like

International: mm hmm

Bulgarian: that big of a big of a part of in my life so yeah

International: mm hmm

Bulgarian: and then

International: did you do it with friends

Bulgarian: no i did it alone i don't know why even

International: hmm

Bulgarian: i think there was like one classmate who did and it was oh cool you're playing basketball i want to try as well

International: mm hmm

Bulgarian: yeah

International: nice

Bulgarian: i wasn't great

International: yeah

Bulgarian: <laugh> i remember

International: did you do anything else

Bulgarian: i did swimming for like

International: i remember that one yeah

Bulgarian: yeah that that was

International: quite a long time

Bulgarian: yeah did you do any sports by the way i don't remember you doing any sports

International: uh hmm not much i think i did maybe badminton when i

Bulgarian: badminton

International: was in primary school

Bulgarian: okay

International: uh at the sports hall as well um maybe maybe for like two months probably and then i remember

Bulgarian: wow

International: i was a month in and i was feeling like i've learned things i'm progressing and then someone arrived and within two days she was better than i was after a whole month

Bulgarian: <laugh> wow okay

International: um i just felt so bad and demotivated and i thought there was something wrong with me and i'm not made for this a and yeah uh i ha i didn't have a great self confidence back in the day especially about sports and then i did a little bit of swimming but like the first time i got a bad cold so then mom didn't want to let me keep going

Bulgarian: of course of course

International: of course and then the second time i probably just started doing it again i can't remember after what time period maybe a year maybe a few months um and i remember i hit my toe in like this little concrete platform thing that was on the ground i just didn't see it and i was like walking and hit my toe

Bulgarian: what

International: in the thing and then i i don't think i broke my toe but it was hurt so then i just didn't go back forever i think i think that was the end

Bulgarian: wow

International: 'cause i just thought this is not for me and then as you know i started doing dancing in high school and i decided probably

Bulgarian: yeah

International: that this is the sport for me so

Bulgarian: yeah

International: even though it's not very sporty

Bulgarian: i mean it's mostly intensive someway actually

International: it can be

Bulgarian: it can be

International: it's up to you <laugh> if you're missing that

Bulgarian: okay yeah

International: yeah i guess so

Bulgarian: hmm okay

International: so yeah and then since coming here i i did try running actually for a

Bulgarian: oh wow

International: little bit um speaking one of the

Bulgarian: i remember

International: questions here is about edinburgh uh back when i was doing my phd uh in the phd flat um i used to run maybe every other sunday with my flatmates and oh actually with one of my flatmates who shall not be named uh because of the experiment

Bulgarian: mm hmm yeah privacy

International: uh but uh exactly um then the other flatmate joined us once and he was really badly hungover

Bulgarian: <laugh>

International: and he was just so much better than both of us that's just so depressing <laugh>

Bulgarian: i'm really

International: so yeah i think we stopped doing that

Bulgarian: i don't think hangover really affects your running performance

International: maybe i i i don't know i guess it depends on

Bulgarian: yeah

International: how sick you feel but yeah <laugh>

Bulgarian: yeah it depends yeah hm

International: yeah and i'm now doing yoga which i would recommend to anyone

Bulgarian: yeah i remember one time when you went back for for holidays in bulgaria you wanted to go run and dad made fun of you <laugh>

International: that's a good environment to promote sporting activities right <laugh>

Bulgarian: yep yep yep exactly