Nice Days, Clever Nights

Days pass by as they were some kind of whirlwind of seconds, but alas, all good things must come to an end, that much is true. It's been fun seeing here things progress and people grow older. That's probably been the craziest thing for me in these past 3 weeks of being here. It's been strange seeing people, former students whom I first met and befriended 4 years ago, and the younger ones are 4 years older, adults even, starting to make big decisions. But the strange thing is that I feel completely as I did before. All of them look 4 years older, but not me, I feel just as the way I came here, with the same spirit and drive for adventure. I came a young 20 year old boy and now I'm still a young 24 year old boy, and I've seen changes in myself, but although I'm 20% older, it's nothing I think.

In the past week, I've been doing lots of things, but not much. I've:

-visited a new non-smoking bar in Kralupy, which is great by the way.

-visited a new great church in Prague (the first one that I kinda ever liked somewhat) It's called ICF-Praha

-I've been entertained with an innumerable amount of tea.

-I've spent lots a few hours studying and preparing my Russian. I've still got a lot to do, I don't understand it still much.

-I've been researching my upcoming trip to Romania and where I'll stay or who I'll stay with.

-I've decided that I'm gonna win a contest and move to Australia, so i'm working on that for the time being also.

-I've talked to many old students back home or old friends via chat.

I'm keepin myself pretty busy. I'm looking forward to the next few weeks and some of the fun or interesting experiences that will arise from it. I hope you all are well and I'll talk to you later.

Refreshing Freshness

Things haven't seemed to slow down for me since coming here a week ago, I've been keeping myself busy with visiting with an innumerable amount of people in such settings as houses, flats, over tea, over beer, festivals, and various places in the school mostly being the classroom with my old classes.

But it's been really good. I've felt a lot of good feelings since being back, and the one that I'm glad that I haven't experienced yet is boredom. I'm sure in the next several months of my time of not having a job or really having anything set to do that I will, in time, become bored sometime, but going on a week plus strong and I'm still not bored. It probably has a bit to do with the fact that in my free time when I'm not with people, I've got other preparations to do for some trip or I've been watching some TV shows that my old roommate Joseph and his roommate Aaron have.

Interesting notes thus far:
- I visited the Kralupy Music Festival, called Lednovy Underground, last weekend and saw lots of people of whom I was very excited to see and meet up with. I was able to hear lots of good music also and feel like everything was back to normal again. I've accomplished a lot more normalcy in the last week than I have felt in the last few months, so that has been a good feeling for me.

- It was really fun for me to meet this strange guy the other night in a local pub who remembered me and came over really wanting to have me teach him English because he doesn't know anything for going on holiday to Egypt or anything. He doesn't know any languages and really wanted me to teach him some travel English. I said no problem, knowing that he wouldn't want to the next day (they never want to). And if he did, that'd be great, cuz then I'd be making a bit of money which would be helpful. So he wanted help for his holiday travelling, but then he said that he isn't planning a holiday for a long time and actually he doesn't have a job right now, so it was a bit confusing, but that's life. Oh, and he wasn't able to meet the next day.

- Another night I was with some friends and we went to a nonstop bar and met one of my old friends and his wife. Well, they weren't really old friends, but just someone I knew from a bar I used to visit near my place. He's actually the first person who asked me for English lessons but never followed through with it. They made me and my friends come over and we came and they wanted us to drink champagne, so although we didn't want to, they bought a bottle and made us drink it. It was strange a bit, and then the wife wanted to kiss everyone many times. Really strange.

- Last, on a sad note, my old neighbor is really really sick. Keep him and his family in your thoughts. That's all I can say now.

I'll try and get some pictures up later but for now, this is gonna have to do. :) Hope all is well with everyone and I'll be talking to you all again really soon I"m sure.

Zach is back

Hello everyone and welcome again to my blog. I know things were a bit slow for a few months as I was in America finishing up some boring studies, but I have arrived finally again back in Czech Republic and hopefully I should have a few more adventures and interesting stories to keep you all entertained. In the meantime, stay tuned and I'm really interested in where it'll take us. Talk to you all later.