What could make an ordinary day in an ordinary small city in Bulgaria a little more exquisite?

Among the highlights in politics of the past two weeks are two elections, a referendum, the Turkey-Armenia reconciliation, and also the announcement that Barack Obama has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

"Learn from Europe but don't be scared to experiment," was the message of the first online forum in Bulgaria.

Read some of the most interesting, funny, or striking quotes about AUBG from the past week, on campus or off.

The initially proposed SG budget passed the All-Student Assembly without any amendments. However, a change from last year is the fact that the so-called buckets, used to allocate money specifically to More-Honors and AUBG Olympics, were removed.

Watch an amusing video with highlights from this semester's ASA, when, after eventually reaching a quorum bit by bit, the assembly voted a few NOs on all amendment suggestions and then a clear YES for the final motion of the budget allocation.

The new AUBG BUS Club is a joint organization which encompasses the biggest and most famous business, economics, and finance clubs at AUBG. They do not officially exist as separate entities anymore, but will rather function only under the new combined club, while still keeping the diversity of their activities.

Regularly featured artist at AUBG, Svetlin Abadzhiev, opened his 20th exhibition last week.

European Studies professor Cosmina Tanasoiu recently came back from a sabbatical leave. She was in the United States and part of her sabbatical included teaching at Harvard. Check out the video interview with one of the traveling professors at AUBG.

John Dyer is currently a new professor for the JMC department where he teaches a course on multimedia. After having taught at AUBG in 2005, he's back again. He speaks Bulgarian fluently and expresses a desire to continue living and working in Bulgaria.

Hernando Zuleta is a full-time professor in Economics. He is married to a Bulgarian, and that is the main reason he ended up at AUBG. Currently, he is teaching two courses: International Trade and Money and Banking.

Stefania Dimitrova grew up in Sliven, Bulgaria and got her PhD in sociology at Sofia University. Before teaching at AUBG she has taught at Sofia University and at Tsukuba Science City University, Japan. Professor Dimitrova is the president of Madara Foundation, an independent, non-profit organization that deals with "culture of tolerance, peace and international communication." She has written two books: "The Rosary of Saraswati" and "Rabindranath Tagore - The Mythical Sentinel." This semester, Dimitrova teaches two psychology courses at AUBG.

Each year the leaves have different shades. This year those shades will be particularly beautiful.

There is almost no reasonable argument against the suggestion, made by the Finance Minister Simeon Djankov, to increase the excise duty on cigarettes with more than the preliminary amount, negotiated with the EU.

Sometimes the sign which symbolizes that guns are forbidden in the Skaptopara buildings can attract the attention more than usual, depending on the background of AUBG posters and announcements on the windows.