Mission to the Czech Republic

(Biggest American food craving while I'm writing this: Moe's burritos)

So second semester is up and running. Not much change in my schedule except I'm taking on an individual student for Spanish lessons. Now I can finally use the skills I went to school for! Last weekend Laura, Veronika, and I went to an "exhibition of witches." It was advertised all over the city, and we were expecting some sort of historical display with information about history, the effect on Czech culture, Czech's traditional beliefs about witches, or at least that the exhibition woul have a point. Alas, it did not, and we found ourselves in a detailed but somewhat cheesy haunted-house type thing, with 10 foot witch structures stirring pots of stew or sitting on brooms, or coffin lids that opened and closed, or a dragon that moved its tail while making dragon-like noises. At least we got a good laugh out of it...sort of...

Saturday night I joined the ski-campers (I didn't go to ski camp with them) for a night of bowling. I loved it since some of my students were there, and I knew some of the kids from skiing in Jablunkova back in January. It brought back a lot of memories of our youth group bowling trips! The kids seemed to have a good time. We are trying to do some follow-up events with them from camp, keep them involved, and hopefully they'll attend one of the summer camps as well. It's amazing how just by meeting with students outside of the classroom, you feel like you know them so much better, and can talk to them so much easier, and they actually do want to talk to you!