In her memoir, Louise Mae Hoffmann shares her adventures in Bulgaria, where she served twenty months as a Peace Corps volunteer.  After years of dreaming about it, Hoffmann joined the Peace Corps in her mid-sixties.

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7 Hours to Sofia is a collection of journal writings, e-mails and letters that reveal the route Hoffmann took from growing up in a German farming community in Wisconsin to joining the Peace Corps at sixty-four, where she taught English in a small village 7 hours by train from Sofia. 

 

Hoffmann openly shares the highs and lows of her experience in the Peace Corps, the friendships she made, and her personal challenges in adapting to the culture and learning the language.