Training in Prague

Not Taken By Me...Just Nice =)

Laura (pronounced like Lara Croft from Tomb Raider) and I are at a hostel with several other teachers for Wattsenglish.  The training is kinda boring BS that could have been summed up in an hour or two and read through if someone cared to delve further into the topics, but the people are great and the hostel isn't bad either...a free beer at check in and a kitchen!  We met the founder of Wattsenglish at training and is a very energetic man with lots of great ideas that are basically just practicing common sense, but he was entertaining and friendly at the least.  I can't believe they are stretching this stuff out over four days, and I'm so happy that I get to leave Wednesday night to start teaching at my school on Thursday.  I'll be teaching two to three weeks before all the other teachers, but I will be mainly in one school, teaching not only English, but assisting with math, science, and PE classes as well!  I am so excited to start...I like having productive things to do during the day.  Yesterday I did not get to go to Ceshy Raj with the guy Roman who wants to practice English with me, because we went hiking mount Krkonose or something instead...I think it's the second highest mountain in Czech or something...at least in our region.  It was pretty challenging but beautiful.  He invited me to get Indian food with him after, which is actually quite good here, but I went to dinner with my new roommates and new friend instead.  We had a great night before Laura and I had to get up.

Things have been going very well overall, but I had a fairly frustrating two hours when my debit card wouldn't work at another ATM.  I called my bank through Skype and discovered that someone was making fraudulent charges with my card.  I had the crazy idea of getting better service by indicating that I would answer survey questions at the end of the phone call, and it worked very well.  I had to go back and fourth walking fifteen minutes to and from the ATM when I was very hungry for dinner until the bank and I finally arranged a small window in which they would unblock my account so I could take out enough money for the next three weeks (including rent and such) until my new card gets to my parents and then shipped to me.  I feel like such a lucky person 99.9% of the time that when things don't go my way it doesn't seem so bad at all.  I was able to buy Chinese takeout and eat all of it after the incident and have been happily full ever since.  It's only 10:17 but I've felt ready to sleep for hours at this point...I am waiting for a shower to open up and will most likely in bed by 11:30 and ready for the included hostel breakfast at 8.