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Cześć! I’m back in the Czech Republic, but have just spent five awesome days in Poland, which is the 20th (!) country I've visited in Europe, where I had so much fun and got to meet so many awesome new people. Idziemy! (Let’s go!) Last Thursday night, I met one of the geography teachers from the Gymnázium, Hana, and we drove with her sister to a nearby village, Okrouhlice, for their annual zvěřina. Zvěřina means “game” in Czech, referring to hunting. We met three of their friends there, and sat down to a dinner of freshly hunted meat. Hana started to explain to me what each thing was, in a mixture of Czech-English-German, and I looked at her and said, “Honestly, it’s better if I don’t know.” I then ordered a soup and some goulash, and ... read more

Ahoj! Last Tuesday, one of my craziest travel adventures began, a trip to the Balkans. Since Thursday, October 28, is one of the Czechs’ national holidays, celebrating the anniversary of Czechoslovakia’s freedom from the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the creation of Czechoslovakia, we had our “Fall Break,” so Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday off. For this break, Alex, Calan and I decided to head to the Balkans. The Balkans is the name given to the area of Southeast Europe, most of which formerly was Yugoslavia. I’ll give you just a little crash-course in this region’s history, just so the rest of what I’m going to write makes sense. Being in the southeast corner of the continent, this is truly the region where east and west combine…or perhaps better to say collide. The area is made up nowadays of ... read more

Happy Friday! I currently don’t have internet in my apartment for some reason, so while I wait for the guy to come check it out, I decided I’d write you all a little about this past week and some of the other things going on here that I haven’t included in my other blogs, and then will post it once my internet’s up and running again. Yesterday ended my first full week of teaching, which is kind of wild to think about, given that I’ve been here now more than a month. Anyways, I thought I’d just tell you about some of the things that my students and I do, and tell you a little about the Czech system as well. If I write things I’ve already written in previous entries, I apologize, but bear with ... read more

I apologize for the long wait for my next blog, these past few weeks have been ridiculous busy! It’s been more than a month now that I’ve been constantly traveling, be it to Boston, to New York, to the Czech Republic, back and forth between Prague, to Brno, to Moravská Třebová, and now on Thursday, I’m headed to Italy! It’s been a blast, but exhausting at the same time, and I’ve also yet to have steady internet (and won’t have internet in my apartment until the 29th!), so bear with me in the amount of things I’m about to talk about! Since we last spoke, I’ve been teaching at the medical school. My first week went fairly well, except for the fact that I was very sick. The weather here is naturally much drier than in ... read more

Disclaimer: The following blog and all those hereafter are in no way related to or reflect the opinions of the United States Department of State or the Fulbright Association. They are but the experiences, musings, and observations of a single experience while abroad. Pozdravy všem z České republiky! Greetings to all from the Czech Republic! I'm sitting here in the beautiful Old Town of Praha, the capital city of the Czech Republic, one street away from Náměstí Republiky (The Square of the Republic), and about a two minute walk away from the famous Orloj leading to Karlův Most (Charles' Bridge), which spans the Vltava leading the way to Praský Hrad, the Castle of Prague. Before we get started, though, let's back up a little. For those of you who don't know, I am one of the ... read more