Being Hissed At...........

This last Saturday I went to Karlovy Vary(a town that is very close to Cheb about 45 minutes by train) with one of my teammates, Sarah and another English teacher,Nicole,(She is from Canada) from another school. I went there in hopes to get a gift for my sister for Christmas, but I had no luck in finding what I wanted to get her. Despite that I couldn't find what I was looking for I enjoyed hanging out with this new teacher and my teammate. The best part of our trip was when we were on our way back to the train station. I was showing Nicole some pictures from my camera, as I was showing her there were two boys off to the right of us, hissing at us or maybe you could call it whistling(depending on which country you are in). As I took a quick glance at who was making such odd noises towards us, one of the boys wanted to take our photo with my camera. Since I didn't really responded to him, he kept telling me "photo,photo." I must say I have never been hissed at, I definitely have been boo-ed at by someone dressed up as a devil. On a side note... I will see people walking around town dressed up as a devil, angel and St. Nicholas in a couple of days(It is a holiday here). I will tell you more about in my next blog. Back to the other story...we all thought it was quite strange what just took place and we all agreed that we have never been hissed at by guys before and found it very entertaining. A great laugh for all of us....What an interesting experience!!!!

Thought of the day

For those who don't know, there has been a lot of snow in Cheb in the last week or so. While I was walking home last night to my house, I saw a tree that was covered in very tiny little icicles. This tree was so beautiful covered in white. I was so memorized by this tree. I had to stop and just look at it for awhile. I am sure i probably looked a little strange to people walking by me. Every branch had a different shaped icicle. It really made me think about a snowflake and how unique each one is. If you look at a single snowflake, which i have had the opportunity lately to look at, it has an unique shape. Not one single snowflake is the same. Even with that an icicle is unique as well. You can't find one icicle that is exactly like another. This made me think about how God created us. The amazing thing is that God didn't create all of us the same, we are all unique in our own way. I just really thank God for that realization last night. Sometimes we just might not be having a great day or anything,but to remember God loves us and created us all different.

This is a church in Prague. One of the many churches in Prague.

I went with one of Czech friends to this castle about a month ago. This is a castle near the city of Beroun, which is about 2 hours away from me. It is Kvirat castle. All of the castles just amaze me, they tell so much history.

With the Sokolov girls enjoying the great outdoors before the weather changed. This picture was taken a long time ago but i thought it was a cute picture to post on my blog.

At the end of October I went to the annual Baptist Youth conference which took place in Prague. It was amazing to see some of my friends that I haven't seen since I left or even before that. It was cool to reunite with them.

This is another picture of all of us West Bo (sokolov and Cheb-West Bohemia)girls. We are in front of the lookout tower where we can see Germany, As, Sokolov and Cheb from the top. This was on top of Zelena Hora(in translation means Green Hill).

Don't pay with dirty money

A couple of weeks ago, I went down to hypernova, which is my normal routine during the week to get lunch. The weekend before this day I just got back from our ESI Thanksgivng retreat and we were encouraged to be a light to everyone(even though we can't speak the language), even to people in the supermarket or people that we pass on the street. I was getting ready to check out and I decided to go to through this one lady's line. I know that when my teammates have gone to her before she was really cranky with them. On this day I decided that I was going to try to be a light to her and make her day, I was just hoping to smile at her. This lady rang me up and she told me how much it was in Czech. So i handed her 100kc and she started to tell me in Czech that it was too dirty and that she couldn't take it from me. I didn't know what what to say...in reality i just wanted to say "Are you serious?It barely has any dirt on it", but i knew i didn't know that in Czech. So I asked her in czech "is this a big problem?" and she continued to tell me that on the back of my 100kc bill it was too dirty. It was the crazies thing i have ever heard of. I have never had that experience before. I could understand if it was a larger bill like 1,000kc but it was 100kc. I also told her that i got it from the bank, the guy behind me told me to take it back to the bank, at least that is what i thought it said. So I paid the lady with some different coins that I had. That is my crazy story for you.....So a word of advice make sure your money is clean before you use it-)