Not My Strongest of Moments

There's a small city near Kralupy, just 10 minutes by train. This place is home to a Nuclear Research Center and i think 2 or 3 pubs. There's really not much to this town. And it's train station holds the only pedestrian bridge across the River Vltava as far as the eye can see. I have had a few mishaps with this train station dating back to the beginning of my days here to just recently. The town is called Řež.

Maybe you remember a post 2 and a half years ago I made. I taught English at the Nuclear Center, and it was one of my first times there (maybe 3rd or 4th to be precise) and I was patiently waiting for the train to arrive in Řež. I looked up, and saw that we were there but I was too late, and the doors had closed. I got off at the next stop and had to run back and made it barely in time for my class at 830 AM.

(You see here the station and the little booth where I was sleeping through the train arrival)

(view from the bridge)

But that story is a walk in the park compared to what I'm about to tell you. Anyways, the other day my friend was having a birthday party in his garden and the garden was in Řež. I decided to make it an all day affair and went about lunch time. Me and Joseph went by train and after you get off the train it's about another 20-30 minutes on foot. The day was great and I was talking with friends most of the day and eating sausages and it was great, until the clock stroke 11pm. I was talking to a friend, and I was wanting to take the train at 11 but obviously that wasn't going to happen due to the 20 minute trek back. But I kept getting more tired and more tired. The next and final train back to Kralupy left at 1250 AM so I had to wait. But I really didn't want to any longer. So I decided to head off early and just wait at the train station. I enjoyed the fresh air and walked back to the train station to wait for my train. I got there with about an hour or maybe just 45 minutes to spare and I decided I'd set my alarm and just take a nap. Go figure, I forgot to set my alarm and I fell asleep on the bench. I awoke freezing my butt off and I looked at my watch only to see that it was 110!!!! Oh no, I missed it. And it was freezing and about 8 miles back home. I played around with the idea of walking back, but then pulled myself together and opted against it. I called my friend and asked him to call me a taxi cuz I didn't know the number to any. So, after freezing for about 30 more minutes, the taxi finally came and took me home which took about 20 minutes. The whole time the guy had the heater on and i was just soooo frigid. But the taxi driver was nice. He was tellin me I made the right decision instead of walking and told me I was lucky that no one else was at the train station cuz it's really secluded and I could have easily been robbed. But anyways, I got home and fell asleep to my nice warm homestead.

Some Sights from Prague

Yesterday I was in Prague and we went on top of the Hybernia Theater to take some snaps of the beautiful view of Prague that it offers. I hope you enjoy them. I think it offers some of the best views in the town perhaps. Well, perhaps it encompasses most of the most desirable sights. I'll show you.

In this picture you can see most of the cool things of Prague. You can see most close, the Powder Tower. Then you can also see in the distance the Petrin Lookout Tower (which is a replica of the Eiffel Tower) as well as the Prague Castle. And then in Old Town Square yo can see the Tyn Church and the Astronomical Clock



In this picture you can see one of the main pedestrian streets. This on os called Na Prikope. It has all the main shops and is a cool place to walk along. It leads to the main square of Wenceslas and then continues to lead to the Vltava River. It is pretty cool to see and to see so far along it for me. You can also see to the left the National Bank with the statue of some dude on a lion. That's cool too


That's about all the coolest shots I took. Hope you enjoyed it. It's cool though. Just trust me. Life was good that day.

BBQ Weekend

The Past weekend, I had myself a big killer weekend of bbqs. It was really a great weekend for me to just sit and relax with some of my friends that I don't get many opportunities to hang out with so much. Not concerning the weekend of bbqs, first I visited for the first time one of the biggest and coolest parks in Prague, called Wild Sharka. Sharka is the name of a girl in Czech and the name of this park perhaps dates back to an ancient myth, perhaps. It was really cool to walk around and feel like i wasn't in a big capitol city full of pollution and it was nice to just walk around and feel free for a few hours.

Next, on Saturday, concerning bbqs I travelled to the nearby town of Odelena Voda to 2 of my friends and students' house. My friend makes gardens and so their house was really awesome and new and full of artwork and different things that they had gathered from their trips about the world. Their garden was really sweet with a pond and a stream and fountain and lots of plants and trees. They had a huge-ass dog, named Mustafa. I'll share a picture of him with you. Though I might mention that it's only a pic of half of him. Anyways, it was a fun night of mingling with their friends and lots of good moments and memories that will stick for a long time to come. I ended up sleepin on an airmattress in the spare bedroom with Benji, and we slept for a long time and then awoke and enjoyed a beautiful lunch in their backyard with the sun and relaxing moments were had by all.

The second bbq of the week happened on Sunday when, first I had to travel back to Kralupy with Benji and then we didn't have much time to recup... well, he had all evening to recup, cuz he didn't go with me, but for me, the minutes were dwindling quickly. But anyways, I turned back around and went to another bbq in yet another small town about a 20 min. train ride from kralupy to one of my colleague's and a good friend of mine. We spent the evening there making yet another bbq and talking about lots of just random things that are happening and about Czech and American politics. The weekend was really good, but completely exhausting and I was so happy to get home early, around 9 and get some much needed sleep before the week brought on a new load of adventures in teaching

Beetles

Sorry for the long time without a post. I don't have to apologize often, but i just have felt that there really hasn't been much to talk about lately. But recently, I went to the local college, and saw this directional flyer for a meeting that was going on. I hope you can take pleasure and laugh at it as much as I did. Just picture what it's talking about.

From One Fair to the Next

On Sunday, after I was skiing on Saturday, I wasn't one to forget to move the time up an hour and lose yet another hour of much needed sleep after the long trip of skiing. I awoke and headed off the the swimming pool at 845 for our good friend Honza would be getting baptized. It was a really awesome experience.

After this, I headed off to the Convention Center in Prague where a trade fair of organic and healthy products were a wry. It was really cool and lots of organic things there such as wine, beer, beef, and so many other cool things. I bought some coffee and some tea which has fruit already in it. It was a wild experience. Also at the trade fair was an esoteric side which we quickly breezed through almost without notion. In the end, we ended back in the organic side and were lapping up all the enjoyment and pleasures that one could desire.

Since this is right next to the fair that comes once a year, we walked right into the fair which was extremely overly crowded due to the fact that the weather was belligerently nice. It was great, so we were walking around, weaving our way in and out of the crowds, bobbing and weaving, bobbing and weaving. We made it to the little carnie games which were quite fun to watch. Ever since my days of working them in Santa Cruz, I always enjoy just standing and watching the people play them. It's enough for me. It's crazy though. I almost forgot how people would just throw away their money on those games for the stupid little prizes. It was cool though and I enjoyed it heavily. In the end, I came back to the train and peacefully let myself sulk in my glory, knowing that I had accomplished a lot this weekend.