Jana, one of the avid readers of this blog, recommended to me a great Czech article about one’s psychological changes that come along with emigration. What a great topic since many of us are dealing with exactly that! This geographical transition can be the most difficult time in one’s life. In order to cope with a new environment one has to be ready to take risks, face many loses and be ready to possibly change some of his life attitudes and values. The author describes also the technical terms of the process where the first phase is called the getting-to-know-your-new-environment phase through which people usually sale with no problems. Most new things we come across during this time are exciting and interesting. This phase may also change into a so-called ‘honeymoon phase’, an euphoric feeling when one feels like he has arrived to some kind of a heavenly Promised Land. [click to continue…]
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This website is so much fun! You can download a picture of your face (or someone else’s face) into various fun
I am definitely not an expert on Slovak cuisine so I called on for some help. Lubos has a blog called ‘Slovak cooking’ and one of his tasty recipes introduce us to the magic of traditional Slovak 
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The Czech elections for the Chamber of Deputies are coming up (Oct. 9) so make sure you vote if you are still pugged into the Czech political scene (and don’t mind traveling to Chicago). Remember, although we live half a globe away our vote still counts! Here is the necessary info:
My Czech friend Pavla recently prompted me to write about the times when we had a yearly gas mask training at school. It was mandatory, so that we would know what to do in case some capitalist ‘pig’ decides to use the mushroom cloud on us. I don’t remember about it much since I was still kind of young (and my memory is terrible). I do have a vision in my head of putting those weird things on and then walking in the school hallways, feeling like a fool (especially if some cute boy walked right by). Since my story is not that interesting I called on to my Czech friends to help me write these memoirs . This is what they remember about those weird days:
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Prague’s main train station Hlavni Nadrazi is finally getting beautified! It used to be such an embarrassment to the whole downtown that nobody wanted to even walk by it unless you really had to. It would stink like urine and puke and it was a favorite hang out spot of all of the homeless people. But now it looks totally different and beautiful! Can’t wait to ride in the train next time I go back to Czech. You can see more pictures and read more about the whole metamorphosis a
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