This weekend, I went to a get together at a friend's house for dinner/drinks and some music! One of the 30ish year old doctors I hang out with is extremely shy and has never played his classical guitar for his friends before. Upon meeting him about a month ago, I was told that he plays but no one had ever seen or heard him. They said maybe he would play for me but he was too shy. A few weeks ago, I ran into the cheery bunch and told him that I was looking forward to hearing him play, and when was a good time for all of us to meet up. When a few of the guys started saying that he would never play, I looked at him and said "How do you put up with this? They don't even let you speak for yourself...I am sure you're completely capable of playing the guitar in front of us if they would stop making excuses for you and let you play or even answer your own questions." After that, he quickly agreed to play and when we went through the days of the week to choose a good time, it fell to friday. The six of us, Pavel and Misa whose house I couch surfed, Jana and her boyfriend whose name I always forget but who is awesome, Chlebik (Czech for bread and shy guitarist), and myself. We had hors d'oeuvres and the alcohol was flowing as we spoke in English and a little Czech and I was shown their photos from their trips to the Philippines and Croatia. I really want to go! We discussed a lot of things and had overall it was a great night. They live so close that I was able to be accompanied on the five minute walk home at the end of it all. We made plans to start a pilates class in a few weeks, have more dinner dates, and perhaps to start a ballroom dancing class as well. They're such fun people, and they lent me some English books to read which is a Godsend over here, because it's nigh impossible to get your hands on them here. I got home a bit after 2:30, called one of my best friends Lauren from home to discuss her birthday and catch up for 15 minutes, crashed around 3, and woke up psyched for life cerca 6:50am. I ended up working out by myself in my room and then taking a 40 minute run and doing some stretches around 8am. After making myself breakfast and talking to my Kat and Laura as they got ready to go shopping, I went on a long bike ride with Dustin around the city, visiting a bunch of cool of buildings and churches and discussing history, religion, teaching, etc. Good times. That night, I was invited to a concert at a bar in the center by some musician friends of mine, and Laura joined me in the pursuit of a little music and adventure. The music wasn't bad, but the bar was a little sketchy and filthy...There were some guys who spoke Enlgish, though, who couldn't believe that they ran into Americans, especially females, in that particular bar...oh well. The next morning I slept in until lunch and then went shopping with my flat mates. I have been working on writing, drawing, painting, and baking a bit more this weekend as well. Today was a solid Monday of classes, and I was invited to a zumba class in one of the classrooms tomorrow with some of the other teachers...apparently they project some videos on the smart board, (which makes me think of Katrina my zumba instructing sister)...I'm so excited!! My company doesn't allow me to work for other English teaching companies, but the founder and owner mentioned a few weeks ago that so far as he doesn't know about private clients, that's fine. I have since acquired three or four who I will start teaching in the next few weeks, so things are going to get pretty crazy pretty quickly, but I'm looking forward to being a bit busier.
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