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Despite my love of teaching adorable kindergartners, my immune system was in no way ready to take them on!  After teaching at various pre-K and kindergartens around Prague for all of TWO DAYS I managed to catch bronchitis :/

I tried to ignore it for a while, or pass it off as a simple cold, but after losing then regaining then losing my voice three times, I figured a visit to the doctor was in order.  I did get the medicine I so desperately needed, but I was also directed that I had to stay in bed for 4 days and I wasn't allowed to go into the sun (? i dont know either...)

Point is, I've been living the past couple of days confined to my apartment, and it's been driving me stirrr crazy!!! (hence the nothing-to-update for a while)

Anyhow, today I was finally allowed to go outside, and just in time!  There was a Czech national holiday today, so I had the whole day to myself to tour around my new neighborhood :D I still don't have much to report, so let the following pictures serve as my visual diary for the day.

Just a random building on the Vltava River that I thought was pretty

View of the Prague National Theatre from a park on an island in the middle of Vltava River

Hangin out under the bridge, Its Always Sunny style ;)

A building on my street, pretty fancy says me.

I came back home to a beautiful sunset on the river!! A-mazing!

Yah, I don't really have anything else to say.  Back to teaching tomorrow!! Super excited!! Till next time, I bid you faithful followers adieu...

So this one day...

I decided to move to Prague.  

It was all very spur-of-the-moment.  The entire application-interview-hiring process took all of two weeks, and a month later I was on my flight to sunny Praha.

No, I've never taught before.  No, I don't know anyone in Prague (or didn't on arrival).  No, I had nowhere to live on arrival, and no, I don't speak any Czech.   But, you know, life is short and whatnot.  So here I am :D

Now, after living here for two weeks, things are AMAZING!!!  I have a fantastic apartment with two great roommates.  I have a great circle of friends, and I was surprised by how much I love teaching!!!!  I'm living in a perfect location, close enough to the center to walk to everything, but far enough so that I don't have parades of tourists walking down my street.  Aaaaand, I can see the river from my window!! I love it!

I feel like at every turn there is something incredible and amazing to see...

Like this 

Or this (the view from the Beer Garden in Letna Park)

From the day I arrived, when I learned beer was cheaper than water, I knew I had found my new home :) More to come later.