She made me count 1-2-3 ice cream to get her to pose for me.

“I grew up in Bulgaria. My dad traveled a lot for work and I would sometimes join him on his travels. Every new country we visited I would fall in love with and afterwards I never wanted to return back home. I always knew I would leave Bulgaria the minute I would be able to stand on my own feet. When I was 19 I packed my bags and left. In the past 3 years I lived in Milan and Amsterdam and I traveled to different continents. I noticed that whenever I would tell people I was from Bulgaria they had these negative associations with the country mainly based of what they heard through media. Of course it is not perfect but it made me think and focus on the beauty of the country. In a way I needed to be away from to gain the perspective that I needed to fall in love with the country I was born in. Even if its not perfect, it is still my home.”

“When I studied in Milan I would visit other places in Italy during the weekend. One day a friend and I decided to go to Cinque Terre, 5 beautiful little villages near the coast. To get from one village to the next you need to take a train. At the time we had very little money so we tried to travel as cheap as possible. We soon noticed that there was no ticket control between stops so we decided to take the risk and travel without a train ticket. Everything went well until our final stop. We tried to play the we-are-lost-tourist-who-dont-understand-the-system-card but they didn’t bought it. They were extremely mad and screamed at us and we both got a 100 euro fine. Now looking back my friend and I can laugh about it but right there we felt horrible. Whenever we take a trip somewhere together we kind of joke around if we should or should not buy a ticket but we both know that we will buy the ticket.”

“We have been colleagues for a few months.”
“Are you also friends?”
“I mean we enjoy buying toilet paper together. I’m not sure if we are friends yet but this could be our thing.”

“Both my biological parents are gay. They have never been a couple. They were really good friends who wanted to have a child so decided to have kids. I have 3 loving parents and honestly I only see advantages. It sometimes does worry me to see that homosexuals and lesbiennes are still being discriminated.
Four years ago my dad got beat up in the middle of the night when he came home from a party. He was found unconscious by a lady in the street. He was brought to the hospital by ambulance. Even though now he has no physical damage it did have a big impact on him. Still he says that he will never change who he is. I really admire him for doing so. He said that one day he wants to share his story with the world but right now he is not ready yet. So until then I’ll do it for him.”