by Gloria H, Marina G, Ana G, and Heidi H.

1. Its temperature ranges from 40C to -15C.*
2. People consider it rude if you call them cute or pretty. Say something like, “I’m looking very pretty today, aren’t I?” before complimenting them.
3. Never eat Candy or anything delicious on Holidays**, unless you have sent an email of thanks to the personal company who made it. Never send a letter or give verbal thanks. In the days before emails they sent letters or telegrams.
4. There are special arenas where people sword fight to first blood. There have not been any serious injuries since 1995.***
5. On Christmas in Bulgaria every year we eat chicken with corn in a cup and roasted carrots.
6. In Bulgaria on Mother’s Day women and girls don’t work until they want to and only men and boys work and go to school.
7. In Bulgaria, eating soup with a fork is considered a sin, it is insulting to the person who created the soup. His name is Jeff Clinginton. He was an Irish man who loved water but thought it was boring and needed some flavour, so he created soup.
8. It is mandatory that everyone in Bulgaria has a picture of Elon Musk on their wall. That is because the people in Bulgaria really respect him for how rich and manly he is. If they don’t have one, they are executed.
9.  A strange Easter tradition in Bulgaria is to dye a red egg for each member of your family and tape it to your arm and see how long it takes to break. Whoever had the egg that lasts the longest is traditionally presented with an orange but most families substitute with truffle fluffies as a substitute, whoever has the egg that broke first is responsible for cleaning up the mess. The egg that never broke is thrown out a window for that person to have “good luck.”

*104F- 5F
**Such as Baba Marta (Баба Марта), Easter (Велик Ден) and Christmas (Рождецво Христово)
***In which someone’s nose got hit. They lost smell in one nostril (the left one).