Post by boscoe on Nov 26, 2007 1:06:41 GMT -5
From Bulgaria's only English language newspaper:
Bulgaria the perception and application of the concept of time is much different than in America and Western Europe. Here, in this wonderful land, the time of day and the calendar date pass almost without notice; blending into each layered moment as a whole with almost no importance given to them. This becomes more noticeable the longer you reside in this unique country; although the way people frantically drive here with death defying impatience you would think that every passing car was on the way to the hospital to deliver a baby or late for a board meeting chaired by Bill Gates with billions of leva at stake. This disturbing factor aside; it’s not so important to have a watch or clock that you would need to refer to constantly in the course of a day to deem it as a necessity like in the West. Indeed, I would have to tell you that one could get by with a wristwatch that just tells you what day of the week it is as it is easy to lose track of time in that sense here. Of course there are exceptions to this theory, but as a whole (especially for foreigners) it seems much harder to linger on what the exact time is, for it seems not so important and it’s often much easier to forget what actual day it is.
Bulgaria the perception and application of the concept of time is much different than in America and Western Europe. Here, in this wonderful land, the time of day and the calendar date pass almost without notice; blending into each layered moment as a whole with almost no importance given to them. This becomes more noticeable the longer you reside in this unique country; although the way people frantically drive here with death defying impatience you would think that every passing car was on the way to the hospital to deliver a baby or late for a board meeting chaired by Bill Gates with billions of leva at stake. This disturbing factor aside; it’s not so important to have a watch or clock that you would need to refer to constantly in the course of a day to deem it as a necessity like in the West. Indeed, I would have to tell you that one could get by with a wristwatch that just tells you what day of the week it is as it is easy to lose track of time in that sense here. Of course there are exceptions to this theory, but as a whole (especially for foreigners) it seems much harder to linger on what the exact time is, for it seems not so important and it’s often much easier to forget what actual day it is.
