more news

1. I have been taking a photo lesson and a ceramics class. Both have been very fun. I made my first print in the darkroom yesterday. At ceramics I have made: a butter dish, six small sheep, a dish that looks like a chicken, two cups and a sugar bowl.

2. We are having a Thanksgiving dinner on Thursday. I have not seen pumpkin or sweet potatoes in the Czech Republic, but we will have turkey, cranberries and mashed potatoes.

3. I have recently been watching more popular czech movies. I saw Zelary which is very very sad, Kolya which is mostly funny but also sad, and Vrchní, prchni! which is very funny and about a fake waiter.

some news

1. I'm done with classes and am now working 100% of the time on an independent project. I am making a book of drawings of buildings. So far so good.

2. This morning a filling fell out, so this afternoon I will be experiencing the Czech health care system. The dentist is not for me: fear of needles + small mouth + bad noises.

3. My host mother made me a coat. It looks very snappy.

where I live

This is my window:

This is my desk:

baby sized update

OK, Prague news:

1. Actually every building in Prague is beautiful

2. I live right next to one huge park and two blocks from a second huge park

3. I am typing on a czech keyboard. The z and y are switched plus you access the numbers with shift plus other confusing things.

4. For lunch today my host mother (zouzana) made apricot cake and plum cake

5. I am really good at counting in czech, not very good at saying other things

6. This evening I went to a hat fashion show and won a bottle of honey alcohol in a raffle

7. Everything is going pretty great

Same but different

Can you even tell these apart? I sure can't. They're practically carbon copies.