Saturday, July 22, 2006

It's HOTTTTTT!!!!!

I'm in Los Angeles right now and it's 115 degrees Fahrenheit (44 degrees Celsius) and we don't have air conditioning! It's pretty much the worst thing ever!!

Wednesday, July 19, 2006

Newness in da wiring

So, last you heard from me, I was gettin frisked by the Irish Communists. Since then, I've been back to CZ and even in America, from the East (Florida for a family reunion), to the center (Oklahoma where I live) to the east (california where I am now for training new teachers). It's been an interesting few weeks in the states. My life has been so busy and fast and crazy. I really don't know how to sum it all up in a few words. I just know that I'm always thinking of about a million and one things about what i gotta do before I head back or what i gotta get or who I gotta see. But it has been a really happy time for me. I've gotten to hang out with my family a lot and see a lot of my friends and sit down and talk and talk and talk. For those of you who want to talk to me, and if you have Cingular, you can call me and we can talk for hours 918 230 6677. If you have another carrier you can still call me, but it's gonna cost me, so I can't talk for hours. But still call me, I still love you anyways.

So, what's ahead for me. Well, I leave back for Czech Rep. on Aug. 20 for yet another year. And for those of you wondering if this is going to be the last one, my answer would be as good a guess as yours. Maybe, maybe not. It has been really nice being back here, that's all I can say about that. There's really just too much going on in my head right now for me to rationally say anything at this moment.

Oh, hey, for those of you who get my emails, I want to clarify that the girl I talked about in my last email (the one about who made my decision easy to come back), there's no romanticism in that, and I am sorry if you misinterpreted those words from my letter. We're just good friends.

Let's see, what else... that's all for now I think . Oh, by the way, if anyone is needing to trade their American dollars for Czech Crowns, I have about 25000 that I am willing to trade because apparently no banks in Oklahoma even offer anything similar to chaning any kind of money. Talk about bad luck. Oh well... talk to you all later.

Wednesday, July 12, 2006

Some flight problem stories

So, as I've been in the states now for a bit, I have pondered all the problems I had on my trip to Ireland, and I'd just like to share with you my bad luck. So, it first started when we were leaving Prague to go to Dublin. Being the teacher, and supervisor for the trip, I took up the rear a lot of the time to make sure that we had everyone accounted for. Thus, the first problem. We're boarding the plane and I'm the last one and I give the lady my ticket and she just flips. "Where's the real ticket?" I said this is the real ticket, what are you talking about. There's 20 people in our group, why is mine any different than the rest? "I can't let you on without the real ticket". I said "This is the ticket!! I don't have anything else and no one in my group did either!" I had no idea what i was doing. I was just along for the ride, I didn't make any of the organization for the trip, so I'm just freakin cuz everyone else is on the plane and I'm just chillin, so I say, "hey, find my roommate Mike on the plane, he's got everything". So they finally let me on the plane to find him, and then we come back and they say that maybe because i'm the last of the group, I'm supposed to have some kind of ticket for everyone. But no one ever gave us nothin for this. So, we spend maybe 15 minutes tryin to contact the main desk to figure out what the heck we're supposed to have. Finally, just before the plane's about to leave, they say that it's all good and that we can just go on the plane. No problem. Whew, first obstacle passed, but many more to come.

Interesting Moment #2: We arrive in Dublin and are going through Immigration. There's 2 lines, for EU citizins and non-EU citizens. Of course all our students are EU citizens so they all just walk in the line and flash their passports and boom boom boom, they're through like gravy. While for me and Mike, we were standing in this long line waiting for them to interrogate us. So while we were standing in this line, an interesting thing happened... This Spanish lady starts to walk up, but then realizes that she doesn't have her passport. She lost it. She doesn't speak English and she's just perplexed "What am i supposed to do, I lost my passport, I don't speak English, I don't know what to do" says the spanish lady. So the guy comes out to her and says "what's wrong? You lost your passport?" She responds in Spanish "I don't speak English, I don't know what to do. I don't have my passport". The guy then says, "Well, heck, it's ok, come on through, you don't speak English? No problem, come on in. NO passport? No problem, we'll let anyone who claims to be an EU citizen in our country even if they don't speak English. No problemo." And I'm just standing there perplexed! Then it's my turn to get interrogated. Keep in mind that I speak flawless English. I have this American passport. What could be the problem. I come up there and the guy goes. "So, how long are you going to be here?" I say " Heck, I don't know 5 days...?" He says " Is that a guess? (in a tempered tone). I shoot back quite disgusted "Yea!" He replies sternly "Well which is it?" Then i'm arguing with Mike about if we're leaving on Thursday or Wednesday and the guy is getting more peeved. I said Wed, and I was right, but it was quite the ordeal. Nonetheless, we got through.

Instance #3: Returning to Prague. So once again, I'm the last person to receive their ticket and everyone else is waiting for me. Everyone got their ticket without a hitch and I'm all happy, ready to go home. I hand her my passport and she says, nope, ain't gonna work. You need to go over to that long line over there to the main ticket counter and they'll know what to do. I say "what do you mean they'll know what to do. I'm with this big group, why am i the only one with this problem?" she says, "just go over there". AHHHHH. So I go stand in this long line and finally i get there and she's saying that I have a reservation, but i don't have a seat! Wow, dumb luck I guess. She pulls up our group ticket and says, Yep, we aint got a seat for yuo. I say "well find one for me please". So after 45 extra minutes of hassle, I finally got a seat and was safely aboard going back home.

But wow, what a crazy time I had with those crazy people in Ireland. It was totally worth it though. The trip rocked and I'd do it again in a heartbeat. It's just one of those funny situations that you don't want to forget, so, I hope you enjoyed. Peace