You've heard them say it. "When I was abroad..." Everyone cringes (including the person who said it) and you carry on. The thing about things that everyone claims are life changing, is that they are. Even if you don't think it will be. Here are the things that mattered to me. That changed my life.…
I've lived here for four months. It's not enough. Not enough time to do and see and eat everything that Prague has to offer, but I tried to get pretty close. I ate cake at every cafe I could... just for you! For this guide to my favorite city on earth. This is the culmination…
The Czechs know problems. Regime takeover after regime takeover, they have suffered. It’s a country in the middle of countries, caught in the power plays of history, often collateral damage in the combustion. A country traded to the Nazis by world powers for just a little more time. A country freed from a totalitarian regime…
I've been living in Prague for two weeks. I understand the phrase culture shock. I've gotten lost and yelled at and questioned and learned a lot. Things are different here. Small things and big things and medium-sized things. Things you don't really notice until everyone else in the restaurant is staring at you and things…
I notice more here. Everything is different and new and fresh to me, seeing this world for the first time. There's Gothic buildings and trams and Czech words covering the street signs and castles. But it's funny because I notice more of the little things. It's like waking up. A daughter holding her elderly father's…
On January 26th, 2018 I will be moving across the world. From a small farm in southwestern Ohio to the center of the city of Prague. I didn't know Czech was a language until a few months ago. I definitely don't speak it. I have never been out of the United States (besides to the…
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