Early mornings and early nights

It's been a while since I've written one of these entries. I created this blog to keep in contact with the rest of the world but I have done an extremely awful job at it. I thought it would be easy to just sign on and write about my life here in Prague. It's been really easy to sign on, but extremely hard to put my thoughts down on the screen. Maybe I have arid thoughts or maybe it's a lack of effort. Sometimes my head is like a desert with the occasional tumbleweed blowing by and other times I feel indolent and torpid. But whatever has been happening, I am now going to try to shake it off. Bring rain to my proverbial wasteland.

Update: Prague was beautiful when we got here in August. Prague is even more beautiful in the winter.
Another update: It is officially winter in Prague.

Full blown winter. Snow was covering just about everything until yesterday. The average temperature has been around 20 with a low in the single digits. Today it is about 30. Relief. The snow is melting and creating a slug around the city. It's sorta funny to think that 30 degrees is a relief though. It also gets dark around 4pm nowadays, successfully inducing sleepiness around.....19:00. It's bad. Maybe that is a factor to my laziness. This is my first winter and I might be overdramatizing the situation but winter is not my favorite. I don't plan on being outside much and we usually speed walk (can't run because of the icy roads) to wherever we need to go. No lingering or loitering outside. It's bad for your health.

Teaching for the past four months has been amusing to say the least. Most have become a conversation rather than a "lesson." My one-on-ones want to practice speaking, making my job a whole lot easier. Just think of a topic and bam, 240 easy Korunas. (A whopping $13) Unfortunately, it feels like any other job. You work all day just to come home and talk about it. It seems like its all we talk about. At home, in the pub, at a party and now in this blog. So I'm sorry that this section is truncated.

Plans for the holidays: 1)We are going to Brussels for a few days to visit and celebrate Christmas Eve with Eve's friend's boyfriend's family. 2) We are going to Milan to celebrate New Year. We will be in Italy for a few days, so hopefully we will travel a bit.