Sylvester and the Hereafter...

In explanation to the title, Sylvester is the name they give over here for New Years Eve. "So, what are you doing for Sylvester?" they will ask? And I respond with... "What the heck you talkin about? But yea, Sylvester has come and gone, and the new freakin year is here, two thousand freakin six, kinda crazy I think. Still hasn't hit me. Been here for a little over 4 months now, and life is cruisin along. Recently got ahold of one of my best friends I hadn't talked to in a few months yesterday, and it was, as well, very refreshing to talk to someone with whom I can really share a friendship with and know that life is still performing at a normal pace back home. Though, after talking, it is difficult not being home and being a part of life back there where I feel that I fit in so well and can speak great English to everyone, and even if I ain't all grammatically correct, they ain't gonna correct my English none. :) Started back at school today and it was good. Good to see my students again. Funny story: So, today I was teaching my 8th grade class (little background: at the beginning of the year, this class was really horrible. Never listening, always talking, don't give a crap for anything, that sort of thing. And then a few of the boys got in trouble for doing some bad things on a school trip. So this class has had a bad rep with the whole school and the teachers, and there were a bunch of specific meetings about this class several months ago. And I admit, I was in the same boat as all the other teachers. It's the only class I ever had to yell at. Kinda pissed me off once. But anyways, over the past few months, I have been a little more strict and instituted a little discipline policy, and they have been becoming pretty awesome. I have seen some of them out about the town and talked to them a bit. So, I was actually excited to see them today, since they have recently started to become one of my favorite classes as of lately, and they didn't disappoint me). I came into class and there is this one little kid, Martin, which is probably one of the funniest kids alive. Loves speaking English, yet none of them are real good, but he is real outgoing and likes to make people laugh so he tries talking a bunch. Anyways, he wasn't here for the last week of school because he injured his kidney or something, but it was good having him back and the rest of them. And, so... I was talking about the holiday and we were talking as a class, and one of the students, Tereza, asks abruptly, "Can I make photo you?" I was a little confused and responded, "You want to take a photo of me? (started to laugh a bit) Um... sure." So, I'm sitting at the front of the class and this other girl named Tereza jumps out of her seat and comes to the front to get in the picture. (Ok, I guess she wanted in the picture. A little strange, but cool) Then Martin, says "Can I be in photo?" Sure Martin. So he climbs over his chair and comes up and sits on the desk as well. So the three of us are sitting there in front of the class with the class watching as Tereza takes a picture of the three of us. I was laughing pretty hard at the situation. It was pretty darn funny. Maybe it's not the funny to you, because I'm not that good at telling stories, but then again, that's your own fault for reading the story this far.

So anyways, another interesting thing today was that because I didn't have my night classes tonight (yay!). I got the night off. Yet, I still wanted to have my Czech Language Conversation Class that I have every Tuesday with Hana, and she did as well, so we went to the local tea house (which is freakin sweet by the way) and we talked in Czech mainly (which I always feel bad about since it's supposed to be half Czech half English but oh well) and we ended up being there for like 3 hours. So it was definitely rockin sweet. I really love Czech and it is a lot of fun to speak. This is usually a high point in my week, and this week didn't let me down. So it was super.

Well, that's really all I have to say. New Years Eve was cool. Went out on the bridge and there were fireworks going crazy everywhere. It's usually a pretty dangerous occasion, and you have to watch your head. There is no central fireworks display so everyone just has their own fireworks and sets them off anywhere there is free ground. So about 1215 your pretty much couldn't see anywhere in Prague because there was smoke freakin hazing over the entire city. It was pretty crazy. Anyways, hope things are finding everyone well, and feel free to hit me up and let me know how you are doing. Talk to you later. Peace.