Expat of the Week

nadaya

Name:nadaya
Age: 23
From: France In: Sofia
Gender: woman

About Me

I speak French, English, Morrocan Arabic and Spanish fluently, so I am used to a multicultural environment and I like it.

1.Tell us more about yourself and your country?

France is a great country to live in and to visit, but as I grew up here I know everything about it and that's enough. The world is wide and surprising. I grew up in a multicultural environment and I want that to go on.

2.Where does your interest in Bulgaria come from?

I've never been interested in Eastern Europe, so I decide to move to Bulgaria to discover it without any judgement and to work here to be totally part of the Bulgarian life.

3.Describe your family background.

I am an adopted lonely child, so I am a real PRINCESS...:-)))

4.What is it that you like/dislike in Bulgaria?

I like the people here, the Bulgarian are very welcoming and nice towards foreign people. I enjoy the food and the various bars and restaurants of Sofia. My favourite meals are the banitsa, kavarma and tzatziki. And surprisingly, I enjoyed the tchaouga, very local kind of night clubs.

What I dislike the most is the weather of course and the elderly people. Sorry but really??!! They are the same everywhere you go. They push you to get off the bus and then they walk slowly and you have to walk faster so you pass them anyway...but still. I'll be as "violent" as them when I'll be 80 years old :-)))

5.Have you visited other countries?

I lived in Morocco (Casablanca and Marrakesh),
England (London)
Spain (Madrid and Barcelona)
France (Châteaudun, Tours, Bordeaux)

6.In your free time you like to:

Watch movies, read magazines about cinema, read French newspapers to know what's hapenning in my home country, art and cultural visits.

7.Your education background?

Master's Degree in Intercultural Management and Negotiations.
Master's Degree in Languages and International Trade.
Bachelor Degree in Languages Applied to Business.

8.What is your occupation?

After work I like to go home and do NOTHING but watching a movie and dine. I am a cinema lover. On the weekends, I like to walk in parts of town I don't know yet and then go out with my friends at Tiffany and visit night clubs all night.

9.Share some interesting travel experience (regardless whether related to Bulgaria or to a visit to some other country)

When I was living in London, during the first days, 2 friends came to visit me and we were looking for a pub at night. So we saw a woman waiting for the bus with a pushchair and we decided to go and ask her if she knew where we could find a pub. We had such a terrible French accent that instead of hearing "pub", she understood "baby" and started to be afraid for her baby untill the fourth time we repeated the word "pub". We still laugh about that 3 years after.

10.Anything we forgot to ask that you would like to share?

I already said that, but I love Bulgarian people and Sofia. Looking forward to visit the rest of the country.

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