How Awesome Is My Choir? Let Me Count The Ways . . .

The children love music.  That’s why they’re here, not because someone makes them, or they got bored, or they need the arts credit or it’s required for their music minor.  There aren’t any divas who have decided the choir is all about them, we all just enjoy singing with other singers (If it seems to …

I not English

I sick.  I not English.  I not food except apples very apples.  Today I have my the three classes, one good class one quiet class and one on laptop have math homework want sleeping class.  I want sleeping to. I resting two layers of the pajama for heat turned up ears ringing probably nebo poprve …

Greetings from . . .

[Paraphrased directions to my seventh graders] And now I’d like each of you to write me a postcard.  It can be from your summer holiday, from here in Hradec, from the moon if you like! Ten minutes later, I read the following: Hi Marisa, I’m had a fantastic time in Mars.  Aliens family was really …

I Look Like A Teacher

Four mornings a week, I wake up and pretend to be a teacher.  I dress up in my teacher-clothes, then I stroll into school holding my chin slightly higher than the students (but lower than the Real Teachers.  I don’t wish to appear pretentious).  I settle down into my Teacher Desk in the Teacher Office, …

Oktoberfest!

If I were a good blogger, I would have a brief but engaging description of my weekend at Oktoberfest, along with a few tastefully chosen pictures. I am not a good blogger. But the next best thing is to take a good blogger with me to Oktoberfest!  My travel buddy for the weekend was the …

Saturday

I feel the need to apologize for not posting regularly on adventures and such.  I’ve travelled to Prague and to Munich.  I’ve met a hundred new people, and gathered long-winded One Month Reflections on my time here.  So it’s not for lack of material that I’ve kept to myself. The difference might be that, now …

Thanks, Giraffe!

This week I have lied to children.  Repeatedly and almost shamelessly.  I pause as if to calculate what the most popular video game in the US must be, delving deep into my mental database of entertainment statistics in order to provide the most accurate response.  I take a moment to briefly count every resident of …

Living With Nuns

Yes friends, this lovely convent is home to me for the next few months.  It might be a short bus ride away from the rest of civilization, but it certainly has its charms as you shall soon behold.–Sunset over the orchard– The next two are the view from my bedroom window.Other nunnery perks include: free …

Pictures of my school

I’m so proud of myself for finally having pictures–and for having such a beautiful school–that I don’t even need captions for these.