Tuesday, January 19, 2010

It Was A Long Walk Home


On Sunday night after a long and extremely scandalous game of Never Have I Ever with 22 of our TEFL classmates, Jess and I attempted to take the tram home.

Did the tram come? You might ask. Oh YES! The tram picked us up... but dropped us off 2 stops later. We were left on a tram track, next to the tram yards, in the middle of the night. We made the best of the beautiful snow and decided to make snow angels and bark at the guard dogs in the tram yard. Just LOVE walking an extra mile home. Let me repeat - Juuuuuust Love It!

Picture: Jess making glorious snow angels

First 10 days in Prague, A photo essay




TEFL snowball fight in the Old Town Square at 2am






































Wack-tastic Black Light Theatre























Giant Sausages with Will
























TEFL Prague Worldwide
January 2010
taking over Futurum










Gangster's Paradise










































Fabulous
roommate
Jessica









Hanging with Terry Smith from Syracuse, NY. Pro-bball player in CZ
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Jess eating snow






















St. George Church in Prague Castle











































Kafka Statue

Monday, January 11, 2010

Snow, Penis' and Teaching, OH MY!

Prague is beautiful! As the locals tell it, Prague has not seen as much snow in years combined as we've seen in the last few days. People are busting their stuff everywhere on Prague's beautiful but irresponsibly slippery sidewalks, streets and stairs. NOT COOL. And yet you can forgive it all because its well, Prague.

These past few days have been spent gallivanting by myself, getting lost in the streets, braving pub life where I don't speak a lick of the language, meeting up with new friends and playing up the tourist role for all its worth! Prague-ians love this city so much that they'll forgive even the worst, (butchered) attempt at their language.

One of the gems we came across on our school sactioned tour was this little ditty not too many people consider as they narrow down their list of, "must sees" when they come to Prague.

David Cherny's, "Pissing Men". In real life you can text the sculpture a message and it will actually pee out your text onto the sculpted pool of the Czech Republic Border.

I'll let you interpret that message yourself. If you need to see it in action and can't make it out anytime soon, check out this YouTube Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnPkaOSvqeg

But seriously, I'm here to learn how to teach not to go sledding and check out the crazy art. (Okay, maybe I am). Today was my first class in my one month certification course. Lets just say this... intense. Tonight we wrote our first lesson plans, tomorrow we teach our first group of Czech students.


I don't even know how to say, "I don't speak Czech," in Czech yet.

Friday, January 8, 2010

Dog Poop


Ajoy from Praha City Centre!

I'm taking a break from the snowy day in Prage in a cozy, kinda smells like armpit internet cafe that I have fallen in love with for a quick update. I'm not going to post any pictures because I'm still, 2 days later, wearing the same outfit. Why would Yesh, who has been known to change her clothes 2-3 times per day being wearing the same clothes you might ask? Well... my luggage is lost... still lost. Haha. Today I bucked up and bought some new clothes at H&M of all places in hopes that some fresh underwear, a new shirt and some clean socks will get me through until it arrives. I'm pretty sure they left it in Chicago. Jerks.

HIGHLIGHTS
Keeping it brief, yesterday was, well... a hassle. Flying went perfectly but the highlights of yesterday included.
* Being locked out of my apartment
* Pissing off the director of the school I'm attending
* Stepping in a steaming hot pile of dog poop
* Crying in the arms of a receptionist at a random Hotel
* Having no luggage
* Taking the metro (scary at first but SO nice and clean)
* Eating... wait for it... RAMEN NOODLES, some dry Muscli, an apple and a Pilsner Urquel tall boy for dinner. Oh yea.

ON THE POSITIVE
I'm really excited to be here and today is going very well.

Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Leaving for Prague




I'm leaving today for Prague! Its pretty much not real at this point although I am packed, dressed, and at the request of my mother, wearing a very stylish "money belt" under my clothes. Basically I'm ready for an adventure I'm not convinced I'm actually leaving for. It'll probably all sink in soon.

I guess all I can say is.... BRING IT!

Lots of love to my family, bf (now official on Facebook after 1.5 years) and dear, dear friends. Thank you for all of your support.