popsy’s birthday

I’m in the mountains this weekend celebrating this amazing woman.
(that’s her husband standing over her, a man of few words, but an impecable sense of humor and as warm as maria.)

Seriously,
she is incredible.

I had the distinct pleasure of meeting the one and only Maria Popkovacheva in the dead heat of August during our 2 weeks living in a hotel at the Fulbright Summer Institute.

Aside from being incredibly brilliant, she is completely goofy, always positive, speaks better english than I do, and is beautiful to boot. I gravitated toward her instantly and although she lives in Sofia, I think that we will be meeting up throughout my 10 months here.

Also, she has a killer friend group, so if I can keep tagging along with this crew… it’ll be a good 10 months.