I mentioned before that I moved into my apartment and that I love my new roommates, but I didn't have many pictures from anything, so I hope these help.
In other news, I started teaching at the school I will be at every day this past week and taught my first lesson yesterday. The kids were very eager to participate and the teacher I am working most closely with, Petra, is extremely sweet, spunky, and helpful. She introduced me to all the teachers I will be working with, showed me the classrooms I will be teaching in, and got me set up with lunches at the school. I am very much looking forward to getting into the school community, as everyone was very sweet, even if they were nervous about their lack of English to communicate with. I simply told them through gesture and words that I do not know Czech either so we can learn from each other, and that seemed to help a little. The school is only a ten minute walk from my apartment and roughly a fifteen minute walk from the city center, which I generally walk to after for meetings or whatever I feel like. 
I found out that I will be teaching not only English, but assisting and teaching math, science, art, music, craft, and P.E. as well! I am so excited about this. Most of the time I will be teaching Petra's third graders or eight-year-olds, but I will also be teaching first, second, and sixth graders as well at different points in the day. My schedule is pretty good with all classes in the morning and off by lunch every day except one extra class on Mondays, but I will be picking up three after school programs at some point in October. My flat mates and I are going for a picnic on this beautiful day and I might go bike riding later on the bike that was lent indefinitely to me by a friend here, so I must be off.
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