Karel, also known as the Bouncing Czech has finished another one of his delicious stories! This time he reminisces about the ‘abundance’ of Czech restaurants in Hollywood in the past…and about this crazy guy named Boruvka (Blueberry) ;o). You can read the whole story here.
Karel (take znamy pod jmenem Bouncing Czech) dopsal dalsi ze svych vrcholnych del, tentokrat se v pribehu zabyva ceskymi restauracemi v Hollywoodu….a taky nam predstavi ceskeho typka jmenem Boruvka ;0) Povidku si muzete precist zde.
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“Ta nase pisnicka ceska, ta je tak hezka, tak hezka…” (“That Czech song of ours is so beautiful…”).These are the words of one of the most famous Czech songs of all times. In fact, the catchiness of the tune made it almost an unofficial hymn of the Czech people – the old sing it and the young ones do too. It was created by Karel Hasler, a talented Czech composer, singer and an actor known from his early teens through the early 40′s. Hasler paid dearly for the words of this song but his spirit lives and will live forever. Not only through his countless songs and a famous Czech candy called “Haslerky” but also through his son whom he had never met – through Tom Hasler. Tom recently contacted me via Czechmate Diary and enlightened me on his amazing life story. He was born to a German mother, Karel Hasler’s fiance, a month after Karel was brutally tortured/murdered in the concentration camp. When Tom was 7 years old, he and his mom emmigrated to Australia and from there to the United States where he lives up to this day. 
The more I speak Czech to my daughter the more I am finding myself saying bad words. I mean, they are not bad in Czech language but they sound bad to the English ear. Here are some examples:
I did couple 
One of you guys sent me an updated dictionary of Czech teenage words and expressions. I gotta tell you, some of them I have never even heard of! I got reminded of my used-to-be favorites, back when I was young young, such as ‘prudic‘ (nuisance), ‘zevlit‘ (killing time), ‘husty‘ (that’s crazy)….But word such as ‘alien‘ (retired person), ‘kobra‘ (hot chick) or ‘krab‘ (an adult, like a parent or a teacher, who keeps bugging you for ‘no reason’) are completely new to me. OK, here it is, sorry, I have to go now – got some studying to do :0)
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I was humbled by my
At a strike of a each hour, a bunch of excited tourists swarm underneath the 
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MaryLena is a very lovely lady who agreed to share one of her emails she wrote to me in the past. She and her husband are a die-hard travelers who have traveled all over the world, including the Czech Republic. Many years ago her family was also kind enough to host an exchange student from Japan who has become like a son to them. Here is one of her wonderful stories about Akira’ 
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