Two People and a Planet: Around and About

Not much has been happening for us over the last few weeks, we have been busy working and getting into the swing of things. The main reason for doing this trip was to live and work in another country - so I guess we are really living the dream at the moment! So far the experience has been fantastic with plenty of ups and downs, all that character building stuff people talk about. Here are a few little thoughts along the way:

We are both settling into our jobs nicely and are picking up more work by the week (which believe it or not is a good thing). It is a job that we are both really enjoying, even if we still find most of the grammar difficult to comprehend! It is such a rewarding job, I can see now why people who teach usually stay in the profession their whole lives. Meeting new people and hearing their stories is wonderful, I feel very blessed to be able to listen to their experiences. Most of our students are from businesses and are therefore all over the age of about 25, which means that they were all living through the communist occupation of the Czech Republic. The stories they tell are amazing, both good and bad. I have always thought of communism in a purely theoretical, factual way from what I learned at school. It is a totally different experience to hear the perspective of someone who has lived though it all. I feel like I am learning more than my students are!

Yesterday was the 11/11/11, a special day all over the world, but in Europe it was St Martins day. There is an old saying that if it snows on St Martins day then "St Martin arrived on a white horse." I was eagerly anticipating snow, but alas, no snow yet. Most people don't think it will come for a few weeks yet, but that doesn't stop me checking out the window every morning to see if it has miraculously snowed over night. Both of us are already struggling with the cold weather and I think we will need to invest in some woolly socks and thermal singlets. Not suprisingly, it doesn't make us feel any better when our students tell us that this is 'warm weather' and wish us 'good luck' for winter!

There is not much else to add at the moment, but here are some photos we took last weekend.

I think this was the last sunny and slightly warm day of the year so we made the most of it by a long walk around the city and up to the Castle.