Horrible Confusion

So... today I learned something quite interesting. Would you ever believe that there is any similarity among the words raw, sulphuric, and cheesy? Well... believe it or not, there is! The similarity comes in Czech. The words sulphuric and cheesy (as being from cheese) have exactly the same pronunciation (and only the difference of one letter, of which both make the same sound), and raw, being almost exactly the same with the exception of a less of a stress (of a millisecond) on one letter. But it's true that there's craziness in every language. Believe it...

The Cultural Difference of Mental Processing

So... interesting story, maybe not actually, but to say the least, it quite puzzled me. It all started on Saturday night when I came home. The front porch looked quite dark and I had to find my key in the pitch black darkness. No problem, I thought. I found it, went inside and found the key to my door with a little assistance from the light in the hall a ways off. I walk in and hit the lightswitch... nothing. I walk farther in and hit the other switch.. nothing. A little farther and again... nothing from that switch. Well... I guess my power's out. That's what it seemed to be. But... that's not the weird thing. The weird thing happened a bit later. Well... I saw that there were no lights so I quickly ran out into the cold to take my little pooch on a walk. We walked around for what seemed to be hours (actually it was just our normal 10 minute walk around the block). And I came back and still darkness. How was I supposed to find some light. I knew that we didn't have a flashlight or anything. What could I do? So I just used my phone to see enough to give my dog some food and that was enough I think.

But I was talking to 2 of my good friends about my problem, and the first thing that they mentioned was "You got candles?" Now... maybe this is a logical answer to my problem. But the fact was, that I did have candles but they were upstairs in my office drawer, but the fact is, is that this small fact barely even crossed my mind. I don't know if it's a difference in cultural mindsets, but I think partly it is. Of course, I think that other Americans would have thought of the whole candle charade also, but it's just interesting to me, that it's pretty much the first and only thing that they both said. Not, find the flashlight, or find the breaker and switch it, or anything like that. But... "you got candles?" Anyways, it was interesting for me. I mean... I love candles just as much as the next guy, but for me, they are only for decorative purposes and almost have not real sense for anything anymore, and when the time comes when it's necessary or could be useful, then count me out for being the one who will think of this beauty of an idea. Anyways... that's the thought of the day for me. Thanks

New Info from a Happy Man

So... this morning I found a reason to write to you about. First of all... the morning started with an unexpected late wake up of 640!! OH NO!!! So quickly I had to walk my dog and get dressed and then bike a mile to my first meeting. Luckily, by the grace of God, I made it there about a minute and a half late, but it was craziness I tell you.

After that, I groggily biked back home and... if you remember how I told you that my stupid phone broke, well... of course it didn't fix itself, so I decided to just go to the local phone store (O2) and looked around for a while and finally I was able to pick out something really nice. I'm really excited about it because I finally decided to dish out a little bit more to get something really cool. Maybe my first cool phone I've had. Hey, I thought I deserved it. So here I am, at 23 with my first cameral phone. It's cool. I don't know if I'll ever use any of the cool functions, but i'm happy with it and hopefully it won't bunk out like my last one did. So... here she is. The pride of my weekend.

So, anyways, that's all I got for now. I'm quite tired. Hope all had a nice Thanksgiving. Take care.

Fun in Nothing

Well... I guess as the saying goes, "No news is good news". I think that since I started my blog over two years ago, this past month has been the least frequented month of blog writing as has ever been. Anyways, I hope to fulfill all of your hopes and dreams for my blog skills, so i really need to try harder... it's true. But anyways, yea. What's been new with me? I don't know really. Life is quite fine on this end. Today is Thanksgiving as many of you all probably know. For thanksgiving this year, I will be enjoying the festivities on Saturday at one of my friends places so I suppose that good times will be had. As for not so good news. My phone has bunked out on me again (second time in the last 6 months. I've only had it for a little more than a year, and although i have a 2 year warrantee on it. I think I'm just gonna have to give up on it and I think it's time to start a new generation in mobiling capabilities. But we'll just see I guess. I'll decide tomorrow.

ANyways, I find it quite sad that I haven't been able to find anything to write about. I feel that things are gonna start picking up anytime now. Winter is quickly approaching which means fun in the cold and lots of enjoyable Christmas moments. More to be added soon, I promise.

The Newest Addition

Just a few days ago, on November 8th, I do believe, a new Barnes was born. To his name we'll give Beau Michael.

I was happily surprised to receive a phone call from big bro letting me know about this joyous occasion. All is good and well with him and smiles can be seen across several continents.

The Busy Amorous Lifestyle

A sthings have progressed over the past few months, I have realized that my life is quite busy and almost too busy for myself sometimes, until I have just had enough and I have to tell myself, "Hey, slow the heck down dude". Life wasn't meant to be like this. So then what was life meant to be like then? That seems to be the million dollar question at the moment. And believe me, if I knew the answer, I'd relay it to my dear readers as soon as possible. I haven't managed to write about anything on my blog for a while now and it's true, maybe a few interesting things worth mentioning have happened, but I just haven't been able to bring myself to taking the time, cuz i've felt like i haven't had the time, but now that i'm here, i just want to write to someone, maybe i'm really writing to myself, so...

Dear Diary,
Billy has been bullying me again and I just can't stand it. I still have a crush on little Susie from across the street. I'm flunking Math class but I just got this sweet new Nintendo game, so I'm happy...

Ok, maybe not, but as you can see, I really don't know what to write about. There's all sorts of things that i've been storing up in my brain to share with you all. But maybe i've stored it up so much that it's at the back of my brain maybe covered up by my dirty clothes or something of the sort. Right now, at school I feel like I have endless amounts of homework to correct and give back, like seriously, it's a crapload, but then, also I'm trying to get it done by the end of the week because the end of the week I have to have grades in because they have the mid-term grades that are due so the parents can see them when they come for the parent-teacher confrerences and therefore, I need to get the grades all settled, but I look at my gradebook and I see that I barely have anything!!!! What the freak! How is it possible. Cuz I feel like I've been doing so much with my students that I think I should have about 10 grades for each class, but it ain't true. And now I've come to the point that I'm gonna just finish what I've got here and then I'm never gonna give homework ever again. Because I don't know, I feel just so crazy. My class schedule is so intense this year and I feel like it's just more than I can handle. I teach about 5 or 6 more hours this year, but in one less day. This has taken an extreme load on me and I really regret that I have taken it, but I have to keep my end of the bargain, so hopefully this will be a growing experience. But you can count on it that there's no way that I will agree to something like this next year, that is if I end up staying.

I don't know, something about teaching is really getting to me. I really enjoy it, and it's fun and all, but the thing that even when i go home and on the weekends I have something to do is starting to bother me. If I want, there is always someething that I could be doing, and this is something that bothers me a bit. Life wasn't meant to be so busy. As long as I have money and am willing to make a few sacrifices here and there, then things should be fairly satisfying. I like having free evenings to do anything I want. I enjoy leaving my work at work. When I start to have a family, I don't want to have to leave them in the evening to lesson plan or soemthing of the sort. I'd like to do what I do and then go home. Although also I'd like to make a difference. Desk work isn't for me, but I just don't know what there is out there for me. It's funny, cuz here in Kralupy, my students are always stressing about which college they want to go to because they don't know what they want to do when they grow up. But the funny thing is that I've gone through college and been done for two and a half years and I still don't know what I want to do. I'm as lost as I've ever been. Things always work out as they should, so I'm not so much worried about that, but don't think that it doesn't cross my mind every now and then. I mean... my future does seem a little wide open for anything at the moment. So I guess that's kinda cool because I think that really I could do ANYTHIN but then again, right now it just seems like my life is at a deadend, a cul-de-sac if you will. But one thing that I've always got to have is faith, faith that God will bring me through these troubled times and that what I seek is the only thing that matters, and what I seek is what God has in store for me. So I shall patiently, or rather impatiently, wait for what He has up His sleeves and in the meantime I shall try and make as much of an impact as possible here.

It's really cool here and I love everyone. I've made about a million friends and I oculdn't have asked for a better place to have been placed by my organization. But sure, part of me is waiting and wanting to grasp at the next step that is waiting for me. I don't know if I'm quite ready. There's still quite a few things that I'm waiting to come to full term here (I'lll imform you as it happens), but I feel like my time here is at least "over the hump, or hill", so take that as you may. I know I don't usually rant on like this, but this was one of those necessary times when I'm not writing about things over here, yet just ME over here. Hope things are good with you all and keep me in you prayers.