who am I?

I just had a realization. I'm going to a friend's house tonight for a going away party for a friend moving back to London. I was about to ask one of the partygoer's if his female companion would be joining him, to get a rough number for how many cookies would be required. Except that I haven't the stuff to make cookies. I haven't baked in over 6 weeks....probably a couple weeks longer than that. This is weird. I think I'll have to rectify this soon. It is such an odd thing that all my friends here have no real idea that I'm a big baker. I feel like I'm living a double life!

acclimated to Prague

How do you know when you've become acclimated to Prague?

When you can go out to watch American football, drink 2.8 L of beer, and get home, get in bed and pluck your eyebrows like normal. (and then, of course, update the blog!!)

Good grief. Almost 3L of beer.

Bowling in foreign lands

It never really occurred to me before last night...but I think bowling is probably mostly an American past time? Maybe I'm wrong, but last night we decided to go bowling at a bowling alley near my apartment.

We were a little nervous because it was almost 10 p.m. and we were on our way. We had Anja call (she's Czech!) to see if it was possible to reserve a lane, thinking they would be really crowded on a Saturday night. We got there and there was NO ONE there! All eight lanes were dark. They turned one on so that we could bowl. Crazy. Not cheap, but a good time. They could have turned up the rockin' '80's music a bit though!!

Picture of me bowling in an empty bowling alley!

SpyTime!

This has nothing to do with my life in Prague. But it does have something to do with my life BEFORE Prague....

I worked on a super funny, super amazing film short in Spring 2009. It is being entered into various film events because it is super great. The short is called SpyTime and click on the IMDB link below to watch the trailer. So great!

SpyTime is an Official Selection in the:

2009 Inaugural Thrillspy International Film Festival
http://thrillspy.org/schedule.html

It will screen 5:15 at the Goethe Theatre in DC on Friday, Oct. 9

SpyTime On IMDB & Trailer:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1454555/

And...because I'm a production assistant....I have my own IMDB page...oh yeah...I'm all that!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3486096/

Good News!

It's been a busy but great couple of days!

Yesterday I took the 'language awareness' exam and taught my final lesson for school! The exam was an overview of grammar, phonology and a few of the principles of teaching....I got an 'A'! The final lesson went well, a little sad because I've really enjoyed the students.

Today I had moderation for school and had a second interview at a business English company. The moderation went really well. The moderator comes in from Trinity in London to meet with everyone and score the final project that we submit. You have to talk about the linguistic aims of materials that were made for class, not using the coursebook. It went really well! The interview included a mock lesson. It didn't go amazingly well (truth be told I'm fighting a cold right now and only wanted to be sleeping) but it wasn't a bomb either. She says she'll let me know tomorrow. I do already have one job lined up with a language school, but until I'm full time, I can try to become full time through various jobs.

I am moving tomorrow, Thursday or Friday, depending on how I feel, but have to be out of this student flat by Friday noon. I found a place to live that is only about 3 blocks from where I live now...so great! It's only for a month, after that I'll figure out where I want to live longer term, but this place was really cheap and close so I took it while I decide where I want to live.

Two live bands since I left the States

I know...I know...I need to update more so that when I sit down to update I won't be flooded with everything that has happened!

I saw Radiohead Sunday night. I really like going to concerts in foreign countries. I saw U2 in Dublin, which really can't compare to any other experience. To see them in their home country, where even people who don't really like their music appreciate them because they're an institution. In a huge stadium packed full...nothing compares to that.

But, Radiohead on Sunday was fun, too. The park where they played actually sloped DOWN, instead of UP, so those of us in the cheap 'seats' couldn't see a damn thing. There was a nice light show, and the music was really good. I'd never seen them live before (and actually still haven't actually SEEN them live) but to hear them live was great.

Just funny because I'm trying hard to remember the last live band I saw before I left NYC and now I've seen two and not just two, but two really big ones.

(the pic with me is U2 and the other is Radiohead)

tea!!

I brought a whole bunch of tea with me....but drank my last bag of PG Tips this morning....AHHHHH!!!

On Friday night, while I was winning the poker game thank you very much, I asked a funny talker (i.e. a British guy) where to buy tea. He told me about a tea shop. I knew he'd know. All you have to do it find a Brit and they'll point you to the tea! After he told me about the one by school I realized I have one about a block from the flat where I'm staying! I haven't been in yet but I'm super excited and thought I should share!