I will go through everything by date and this will be a really long post cause I've been such a busy bum so finally I can now blog for all you Canucks ;P
And I've been writing in a journal everyday so its all good my friends. All the details are there so this will be a good post :D
Monday, October 4th (Pondeli, Rijen 4)I'm able to speak simple sentences in czech now. Today I talked with Moniko about music and we talked about our class trip in History. I couldnt wait to eat brownies after school with m consuming todo list. I started to work on Jaras birthday present because her birthday is on Friday. I'm making her a necklace, its has mostly red and brown beads with a few turquoise and pink ones. I hope she likes it. Petra gave me some of their beading supplies so it'll be really good necklace methinks. My roots are showing so I'm going to dye my hair on wedsnday. I went to the gym. Ran on treadmill for 20 mins, did some weights then went on the elliptical for 20 mins then stretched. I'm going to try to go every Monday.
Tuesday, October 5th (Utery, Rijen 5)I had basketball at 6:30am, so I had to get up at 5:00 cause I had to catch a bus at 6:05. It was really. Some of the girls were really really good at basketball. I think I did ok for not playing for some long. My step hop shoot ones really suck though (I forget the proper name). My bio teacher is epic, shes funny, the whole class loves her. In History, Karel was drawing in his notebook and our teacher grabed his water bottle pretending to kill him saying, "I wont go to jail because everyone will be happy and write me an alibi."
So Honzo said, "What alibi, that you weren't in class?" Moniko had to explain this to me. And in english, I disagreed with something my english teacher said and he said I must not be romantic then but Terca agreed with me so HA :D. Tomas and Karel had a little scrimmage in class cause Tomas squirted water on Karel. Tomas, one of the boys in my class, was at the Rotary exchange information meeting. He wants to go to the states so I was like, ok thats good. I had really good brie cheese and ketchup and mustard and meat sammich but it was grilled so it was really goooood, Petra made it. My host sister is absolutely amazing.
Wedsnday, October 6th (Streda, Rijen 6)This one is going to be really long, it took up a whole page in small writing in my sketchbook/journal. Ok, so I was really tired this morning but I still made the #5 bus which is the second bus to school. But still on time, it comes 2 mins after the first bus. Terca suggested I know how to ask someone to dance in czech so Moniko taught me. Cause tonight is the class ball. I'm wearing my white halter dress with the orange flowers. In math, Andrea and Natali found some paste to keep fake teeth in so the whole class was joking about giving it to this teacher they had last year that they don't like. Karel suggested that they do it on the loudspeaker at the dance tonight. In geography we're doing stuff on Africa and I know this stuff just in english. Tis a problem. My german teacher scares me cause she seemed very grumpy the first time I meet her but she has and elf face and hair. And even in czech rep its hard to find good principles. No one in my class likes him and Petra was saying he was good until he became the princeple.
I dyed my hair. Its a little less yellow cause I didnt get the super blonde dye. Petra was kinda sad about that. Shes reminds me a lot of Megan sometimes. Babicka brought over Boli and he was howling cause he was missing Jara. Before the dance I went to a yw meeting. Annicka and her friend both like basketball so we kinda talked about that for a bit. And then we talked about activities we can do for yw. We went to Meloni for the meeting which is has really crepes :D The dance was good, some of my classmates are really good at dancing and two dancing couples from our class made it to the final six. Karel and Vera and Lukas and Dana (Lukas and Dana are a real couple).
During the break we took photos which are one fb btw. During the photos Karel offered me something to drink so I asked what it was and he said "Beer." so my automatic response was "Noooooooooooooooo." And I had to explain that whole thing to everyone. But one of the girls, I cant remember who, said she didnt like beer either. But Karel kept saying it was delicious and I kept saying it was disgusting. During the dance I sat with Radka's parents. Her mom really liked my ring (the native american one) and they were really nice. Anyways Jirka picked me up and then I collasped into bed.
Thursday, October 7th (Ctvrtek, Rijen 7)This one is short compared to yesterday. Moniko and I were talking about music and she said before I came they looked at my fb profile and they were afraid I was going to be a super tokio hotel freak nerd. Thankfully I am more normal now and I'm not a superfreak anymore. In my second english class we boo-ed Mr. Hedgehog cause he didnt come to the dance last night even though we had given him a ticket. Its funny in english when he gives me this "Is that right" look cause I'm the native english speaker. I went to art at 4 then to seminary at 5 till 6 then back to art till 8. Since I only go to the half of the 4pm one cause of seminary, my awesome art teacher said to come to the later one. The elders gave me a book on learning czech and there was an old missionary couple there so we chatted while we waited for all the late people. In art we did an abstract line thing. I really enjoyed it. I helped Petra with brownies when I got home cause Jara needed them for work.
Friday, October 8th (Patek, Rijen 8)More then halfway through :D. So I had to eat my nommy breakfast while walking to the bus stop cause I was a little late today. In civics I was used as an example cause I was a foreigner in a new culture cause we were talking about culture and people and stuff. My civics teacher is like Wakefield. In History Lucka hide Karels water bottle so he complained to the teacher and she called him a baby. The teacher then said to give in back to him but it czech that can also sound like punch him. But we made him leave the class and then Lucka got out his water bottle from the hiding place. Twas funny.
Alright now to Prague. We stayed with family friends of the telatnikovi's but I cant prounounced their last name so yah. But their son Radim was really nice. We got there and he asked if I wanted to go out with him and his friends which I did cause being with the adults would have been boring. So we went to a pub and I meet Prague people and learnt more czech. Found out the that czechs dont really care if you're underage and drink. I had water, in case anyone was wondering. But it was interesting and funny for me. Radim who is a month older than me keep teaching his friend magic tricks for free beer. He also spent last year in the states so his english was good so he explained when things were funny. We got home around 11 and I wrote in journal and sleeped. Oh Boli was really funny when we were leaving cause he was sitting in the care with a "take me" face. I has a photo
Saturday, October 9th (Sobota, Rijen 9)There are still 2 and 1/2 pages in my sketchbook for the next 4 days (thats including today) so lets get to saturday. I dragged myself outta bed a bit after 8 and didnt go downstairs until I was makeuped and dressed. Jara brought a really good cake with us because it was her birthday on friday and she love her present btw, she said they were her colors. Anyways the cake was super chocolately, sooooo good. Which we had some for breakfast. Klara, the 10 yr of the family we stayed with, was really cute.
In prague we walked through the gardens past the wine gardens then to the Prague castle where we climbed up the south tower to a beautiful view. I was grinning from ear to ear when Jirka said we could go up it. There was also a toy museum but I just got postcards and a trinket for my phone. I also got a little book on Alponse Mucha, a famous czech artist I absolutely adore. His style is beautiful, I absolutely love love love it. I also got a soccer scarf, my super czech souvenir. I also got a cheap summer skirt but I know how to make it winter appropriete. I also got a necklace for mom and earrings for me, which Jara insisted on getting for me as a gift. The Telatnikovis are so nice. They are absolutely amazing, I couldnt ask for a better host family. I absolutely adore them.
We also walked on the Charles brigde. Everybody loves Charles here, in Trebic the town square is called Charles square. He was an important czech king and the roman cesar. It was a cool brigde. Saw this ceramic whistles, almost got one for ody but I still have 9 months here. Once we got back the house we were staying at we had good food and Radim and I talked about differences between Czech Rep and Canada and how good Krispy Kreme is. He then helped me practice my czech. My feet are sore from all the walking.
Sunday, October 10th (Nedele, Rijen 10)I wrote about Sunday on Monday cause we were busy the whole day and I slept on the bus ride back to Trebic cause Jirka went to a czech spa with his parents so he took the car back to Trebic Saturday night. And when we got to Trebic, I had some food then collasped into bed. We meet up with Bara, my older host sister who goes to school in Prague so she lives there. We went to this interior design show. It was really cool. They had some nice stuff and I could totally picture mom plotting what things she would want in the new house. We then went into town and ate really good indien vegetarian food for lunch then we went walking around downtown. We saw the astrological clock and went down Pariska which when translated is Paris Street which is where all the designer shops are. Then I did some window shopping, almost fell in love with a coat for Zara but the shelves were too short. I have a feeling this will happen a lot to me. But that was ok cause I didnt need to by it. I had a cool dream sunday morning but I dont feel like writing about it in here
Monday, October 11th (Pondeli, Rijen 11)Moniko couldnt find her list of romanticism books shes read so she was convinced czech class was going to be bad. She was also shocked when I said I had never been to an actual concert or anything like that so she mentioned that a czech band is playing at b-club on saturday. So I might go, Jirka and Jara said I probably can. I got one of those hats that look good on me and a pair of sweats at the cheap chinese shop cause I only have one pair of gym/working out clothes. I went to the gym but only one treadmill was working so I didnt get to run. :( But I worked my muscles and went on the bike.
I also had my first phone convo with the family back home. Sounds like everything is good there. We talked for a long while but then mom was like "We're going to stop talking to you cause you need sleep" I'm surprised I dont feel like that made me super homesick but maybe a little but it was so nice talking to everyone. Anyways I have an early morning tomorrow. Btw I have been reading my scriptures pretty much every night which is good. I'm working on the word Deligence from D&C section 4 so that prolly why I remember every night.
Tuesday, October 12th (Utery, Rijen 12)YAY we finally made it to today :D So basketball practice was really good but it was really cold in the morning. It was below zero and its dark at 6am. I scored the first basket for me team, it was a really nice one too but I try hard to never ball hog cause I know how much I hated when people did that. My hand got covered cause I was drawing in one of my classes. I draw cause my brain needs a break from studying czech a few times a day. Its a really weird drawing but I like it so thats good. I attempted the test on romanticisms in czech. I think I did better on the one I attempted in geography cause we studied africa last year. Sorry if I wrote geology instead of geography somewhere in here but I'm too lazy to try and find it. I caught the same bus as Petra coming home. We talked about the basketball championships in Trebic and how she'll play against me cause she goes to the catholic gymnasium cause they teach latin. Had really good apple juice, homemade by Jirkas parents. Anyways I need to go socialized. Writing this took a long time.
Tata for now :D <3
So I will put things in by date like last time. That is the case I made for my czech notebook, yes that is Avatar The Last Airbender symbols and yes I want to rewatch it after I finish Stargate but I will watch the movie (with the ugly Zuko) first.
