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OCT 4 - Nancy McEldowney, the newly appointed US Ambassador to Bulgaria, visited AUBG.
AUBG officials and students took Ambassador McEldowney aroung Skapto campus. After visiting Skapto 2 and the Library, the Ambassador had a one-hour meeting with AUBG students in the New Academic Building. 
OCT 6 - Atanas Hranov (paintings) and Alexandar Sekulov (text) presented their exhibition "The Floating Town and the Men of Black Pepper". The collection consists of nine compositions of paitings and stories, commissioned by the State Institute of Culture to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bulgaria. 
Digital copies of the original works will travel around the world after their stay at AUBG.
OCT 12 - "I got the key of St. Peter," History professor Evelina Kelbetcheva joked after locking the church of the Tsurnogorski Monastery. The monastery is situated 56 km west from Sofia and on Sunday became a part of a one-day field trip around several Bulgarian monasteries, organized by Kelbetcheva. 
The Father Superior of the Tsurnogorski Monastery invited the whole AUBG group to have lunch at the monastery.  Prof. Ekaterina Atanasova from John University, Toronto (to the left), and Professor Evgenia Ivanova from New Bulgarian University (to the right) helped in serving the meal. Atanasova and Ivanova joined the trip as guest lecturers. 
Monk Nikanor (or Hristo Mishkov - his birth name) shared part of his thoughts with AUBGers during the lunch in the monastery refectory. He became famous in Bulgaria after he quit his higly paid job at Wall Street to take the monastic vows.  Prof. Ekaterina Atanasova gave a short lecture on iconogaphy to AUBG students in the main church of Studena, a village on the road from Blagoevgrad to the capital Sofia.
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