at approximately 1220am... "5:53am. then i can snooze at least once" lights out. slumber. dreams dreams dreams. 

553am...alarm sound alarm sound alarm sound "no. boo. snooze" sleep sleep "snooze again. wait - snooze again means i miss my tram. when's the tram? 630. no 640. 640. it's 614. get up. 10 minutes to walk. get up. kvazar has good coffeeeeee. get up. this is stupid. it looks like midnight outside" get ready. walk walk walk "no, let's run now. i'm bored w/ walking. and i might miss my tram. that's no good." run run "i'm out of shape. i should walk. what are all these people doing up right now?" board tram "this hour of the day is stupid. look at all these people on a tram at 642am. that is stupid. oh well. good coffee is soon. as is POLAND"

those are pretty much my thoughts from this morning... in 2.5 hours - bean and i will head to POLAND! for fall break. 5 days of blissful travel and walks through the uber cold wroclaw and krakow. hostels, castles, new people, coffee shops. yay.

and another side note -- wednesdays forecast here - has clouds with rain AND SNOW. what?!?!?!

things around.

update

life in ostrava is maintaining its fast pace. you can always tell how full my calendar is by the appearance of my room. who has time to hang clothes when there are people to hang out with, lessons to plan, classes to teach and pubs to visit? let's be honest - who ever has time to hang up clothes when there is aaannything else to do?

last weekend, we cheered our little hearts out for the ostrava arrows baseball team. our cheering wasn't quite enough and draci defeated them in the final 2 games of the series giving them the title and the arrows a second place. saturday night, i had the weight of the world on me. you see -- i was the world. and bean was the moon. several americans and czechs gathered to celebrate the birth of our friend ash and adorned ourselves in ridiculous costumes - it was quite a treat. i'm glad that halloween is not going un-celebrated though we are far across the sea.

this coming weekend our friends from praha are coming and i am oh so excited. 

classes are going well. i had one cancelled yesterday and another cancelled this morning. se la vi. bible study on monday nights is kickin and refreshing. 

my biggest disappointment thus far has been that i have no youth classes. i really wanted to be able to teach high schoolers. re-visit it from the times i used to work w/ them and see how it felt to play a role of teacher to see if it was something i would want to do long-term in the future. but ta-daaa - i think i may just have something better. younglife is starting a new english club at a local gymnazium (which is high school here), so today at 2pm, i will help host/ coordinate that. some of the kids know about it and are super excited. and i'm excited bc i can play less teacher role and more just me role. we'll see how it goes. i'm feeling a little less than creative these days with ideas on how to make english fun at all times. but i'm way excited to meet more students and spend time with them. 

i would really appreciate it if someone in the states would send me chick-fil-a, the restaurant. other than that, no complaints for today :)

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life is good. life is busy. right now my brain is tired at 1040pm. i am officially an adult. bc every night around the 10 o'clock hour i get so tired and feel like i should be invincible. i should ward off this feeling. i'm only 23. but alas. long, busy, intense thinking days produce tired. zzzzzzz

still allergic

I really sometimes think that I may be slightly allergic to this place. Last night as I said dobrou noc to my dear roomie, I tried to shut the door. And couldn't. It kept getting stuck on the rug. Open, half close, open, half close, rug stuck, open, rug stuck. Whatever - and walk away. Gina begs from her bed for me to come back so she doesn't have to arise out of the comfy zone. So I come back and tell the door to knock it off (no pun intended) - let me freaking shut you. Ne. Nothing. (note - this has never been an issue before) So I decide that maybe in our pillow fight from earlier when people were over, the door got adjusted and I needed to slightly lift it - I PROCEED TO LIFT IT COMPLETELY OFF THE HINGES. I am then holding a door. What?! Who rips a door off?? So yeah - that was a little bit hilarious. Then the door felt a tad heavy to lift back onto the hinges. My Hulk strength had apparently disappeared. Which made it funnier.

Don't worry - I got it back up and on the hinges and shut it successfully a few minutes later. But these standard, normal, easy things... should not be as difficult for me as they have been.