After a long, extremely unnecessary hiatus, I am back to the blog life! Seriously, I was just being super lazy not updating, and to be honest, nothing super exciting was happening! But then I realized, that's what I think, but you (the reader) obviously are still interested in the smallest point of topic. For example, I started teaching again, Crossfit and a healthier lifestyle. (OH NO NOT SOMETHING ABOUT CROSSFIT JESUS) LOLZ. But seriously, since I started back in November, everything about my life has changed, for the better. I now feel like my life has a purpose and I'm not just drinking my life away. I actually enjoy teaching now and look forward to going to work every day! Even though, no joke, these kids make me want to pull my hair out but then there are the days when I want to be with them all day! And I have a nice little routine during the week: get up, go to work, go to the gym and then make dinner! Sounds boring, but man is it nice. Summer was great though, I worked a lot. By work I mean taking groups of stag parties out on the weekend or to any activity they might have booked with the company I work for. Vox Travel. I was so fortunate to become apart of such a great team! But more on that later. Then summer was over and I headed home for a bit and this is when it got hard! ...
Well, to start off in a random, yet necessary point of my life, here we go:
When summer was coming to end, August to be specific, I was trying to figure out what kind of a job I wanted after Steve(bf) and I returned from the US of A. Since we were going at kind of a strange time, getting a job at a kindergarten would be more difficult. I was starting a part time job at a hostel before I left but I knew I didn't want to continue, pay wasn't so great. But THEN! I found a job posting for a summer camp assistant teaching position for a couple weeks in the summer. It was for a small language school called PlayGround English up in Kralupy (30 min by train from Prague) and I thought it would be a nice little ending to my summer, calm, to some extent, right before heading to America. To my luck, the owner of the school was really impressed by my resume and hired me on the spot to do the camps with his wife, co-owner. I was still on the fence about teaching full time when I got back, but seriously, she convinced me! We got along so well and thought that it would be good for me to start back up teaching. At first, I said I only wanted a few classes, (it is a language school so I move around a lot), but then, again, she convinced me to take more. Now, I teach the most classes from all the other teachers in the school. Funny right? It's been super fun this year, a lot of ups and downs, but great nonetheless. Unfortunately, I won't be continuing there because I am starting a new journey in South East Asia. Where you ask? Not sure yet, all I know is that I will be moving somewhere in that area in either September or October of this year and I can't wait!
Aside from the fact that teaching has been great so far, when I returned from America, I realized I was seriously living an unhealthy lifestyle here in Prague. I knew it, we all know it living here. It's easy to grab crappy food and it's easy to drink like a fish on a night out with a bunch of crap and added sugar. That's when I decided to start Crossfit finally back in November. After being an athlete all my life and taking a year break off of working out. Ya I know, but to be honest, most of us do it! After years of grueling work, workouts, games, matches and competitions, it gets extremely tiring. But my break was over and it was time to get back into shape! The first intro class I did I fell in love. I had Steve come with me because what's better than a couple that is fit?! Nothing! Plus it is way easier if we're both on the same page. :) Anyway, now I've constantly been going since then 3 times a week and started the Paleo diet as well. (Well actually, now I started going 4 times a week, my body has gotten so much stronger.) I'm not one of those crazy people that won't eat sugar now and again, or bread every once and while, (I'm eating chocolate right now haha) but for the most part I exclude it from my diet. And I feel so much better! More energy and all that jazz. It really fills the competition hole I have in me since graduating from college. Although I wish they were more keen on water polo here.
Since I posted last, sheesh a long time ago, I've probably had 4 jobs since then. But my favorite has been working as a tour guide and teaching again. After leaving the Irish pub last March, I was still tip toeing around promoting for the bar crawl but then I found a waaaaay better job being an elite tour guide. :D When people ask what I do for a job, back then, I would say I'm a tour guide because it would be easier. Technically that is what I am, but it is the greatest job ever. It all depends on the weekend, but sometimes I could work Fri/Sat/Sun or just for 1 day. And so far, I've been paint balling, go-carting and AK 47 shooting with my groups :) and of course loads of pub crawls. It is a nice break from the week and have fun on the weekend. I've made a ton of great friends and coworkers from this and I'll be sad to leave when I move. But until then, I will make the most of it and make wonderful memories!
Now on to the fun(er?) part. Jokes. But really, since the last post, I've travelled quite a bit, especially last summer. When Palmer was visiting(sister), we went to Budapest, Croatia, which both were on a whim and I could say was the most interesting trip of my entire life. We also visited Cesky Krumlov which is a small town in Moravia, south Czech Republic and it looks like a little fairy tale land. Super cute. We also met up with a friend I had in Budapest and had so much fun, met the most amazing people and decided to hitchhike to Split, Croatia with a couple people we just met. We got as far as Lake Balaton the first night near the boarder of Croatia and Hungary and camped out for the night. That was amazing. I don't think we were allowed, but hey, experiences like that will stay with me forever. In the morning, we got on a really early train to head to Croatia. That was an adventure in its own, 2 Hungarian trains and passport control all in one day. Once we got to Zagreb, we then had to take a bus to Split. Split is gorgeous, but super expensive. My friend was living there at the time and showed us a sweet spot to go into the sea. I was loving the salt water FINALLY. I've also been to England a couple times and Berlin since then. Steve and I went to England for Xmas and New Years and it was really great! Steve was in a band and they did their last gig on New Years Eve and he was amazing. I loved watching him play! Plus this time for Christmas it was nice being with Family, even though it wasn't my mom and dad, it was still great.
Just this last weekend, I went to Berlin to visit a friend who had just moved there and it was great! Berlin is like Prague on steroids. It is HUGE. Like MASSIVE. We did so much walking my legs were killing. I even popped my cherry with a free tour! I don't know why I've never done them before, it was really amazing and informative. I'm glad we did it. Berlin has so much history and art thrown into one city it is quite overwhelming. It makes me appreciate how small Prague is. Plus, public transport is quite pricey, but it is really great. They have U-Bahn(underground), S-Bahn(outer area trains), Trams, Metro-trams and buses. Like woah. The good thing is, the food is pretty cheap, but booze is really expensive and so is going out. But they cherish the nightlife here. You might spend 15-20 Euros to get into a club, but people will gladly play it because the music scene is LIFE there. Which is experienced and it was fabulous, but going out for more than one night was a no go for me. I'm getting old, man! haha Jk, but seriously, I'm not as crazy as I used to be, so Friday night was all I needed to experience Berlin. Honestly, I was still paying for it on Monday! (It was Easter weekend so no work Thurs/Fri and Monday.) All in all I had a great time and I will definitely go back with Steve and stuff so we can do it all together.
My next trip I'm planning is set for May, Steve's bday! Nothing that exciting, just England, but it's nice to have a break from the hustle and bustle of Prague; also for people to speak English all the time. OH and did I mention my good ole mother is headed to EUROPE for her FIRST time ever?! YUP. Her and Palm Palm are heading to London for the start of the trip in the middle of May. Then sometime in June I will meet up with them somewhere to get my mom and then she'll come back to Prague with me :) I can't wait. It'll be such a weird little adventure with my Ma; one for the books.
Till next time! Which I can honestly say I have no idea when that'll be, TOODLES
Paige x
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