September 2010

Czech events for October 2010 / Ceske akce na rijen 2010

Here is an exciting calendar of Czech and Slovak activities for October. We are blessed this month to be visited by Czech bands like MIG-21, Druha Trava AND Marta KUBISOVA!!!! Not very many Czech Halloween parties though….actually to be exact, there are none.
CZ: Tento mesic nas prijede navstivit slavna ceska kapela MIG-21, take Druha Trava a nekecam, take Marta KUBISOVA!!! To je pocta. Zatim jsem neobjevila zadnou ryze CS halloweenovskou party…..a Dusickove party se moc neporadaji ;0)
1. New York, NY

What: Czech Street Festival
When: 10/2/2010

What: “Growing up in NYC (Helen was born in Prague and raised in Manhattan…)
When: 10/7/2010

What: Concert of MIG 21 (popular Czech pop-rock band)
When: 10/26

What: Czech and Slovak Fairytales (Puppet theatre)
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Tagged as: food, Halloween, music, traditions

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What do you think of Halloween? / Co si myslite o Halloweenu?

I have always thought that decorating your backyard with light-up skeletons and graves is kind of strange (not to mention the electric bill!). Then you throw that candy-begging business in it and you get a holiday called Halloween. The Czechs and Slovaks have also kind of a scary holiday called the St. Nicholas Day, but at least the figure of the devil (who tends to scare kids where ever he goes) is ballanced out by the beautiful, holy and secret angel as well as by the Saint Nicholas! Halloween is like: “The more witches, ghosts, blood and dead people, the better!…and gimme some more eye-ball candy with that!!!”

I don’t ignore the holiday I am just little more mellow about it. I decorate my house with a bunch of pumpkins, dig out my strawman and pig out on candy. No skeletons for me – thank you! How about you, what do you think of this ‘holy-day’? VOTE!
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Tagged as: Halloween, holidays, polls

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To the gulag with you, landlubber!! / Do gulagu s tebou, ty pozemska kryso!!

I put my daughter Hahna into swimming lessons this year and boy, does the smell of the pool bring memories! It may be embarrassing to admit but I learned how to swim when I was 9 (!!) years old. We did have mandatory swimming classes ever since I was in kindergarten but they did not seem to help. Years and years of training and no results. You can imagine the communist government was not pleased with me. In fact, I am surprised they have not sent me to gulags or somewhere even worse where they deal with the ‘slower’ individuals!

I do have a good excuse, however. Those years of swimming were pure hell. You want a proof? How about if I told you that every Thursday morning my mom would wake me up – it was still dark out – to inform me to get up because it was time for my swimming class. The next thing I would do is threw up. I threw up EVERY Thursday because I was so scared of those darn classes! [click to continue…]

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Tagged as: communism, humor, my childhood, sports

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New cool Job available for Czechs and Slovaks living in the US or Canada / Nova pracovni prilezitost pro Cechy a Slovaky zijici v USA nebo v Kanade

Are you a Czech or Slovak living in the USA or Canada and looking for a cool job? This may just be your day. Two business-minded Czechs from Prague are coming to the USA next week to look for new travel agents. They have been owning a traveling agency called Incoczech Travel Prague since 1993 and are looking for more clients via spreading their business in the USA and Canada. However, they need you to help them. If you are interested in something like this, both owners will be visiting America next week (9/26/2010 – to 10/10/2010) and they would love to get in touch with you. Here is their contact:

Ivo Kostelac
Phone #: +420 296 799 604
Email: kostelac@incoczech.com

POZOR – HLASENI! Hledame Cechy a Slovaky zijici v USA nebo Kanade a pracujici v odjezdovém cestovnim ruchu (outbound travel industry )!! Dva velmi podnikavi Cesi z Prahy, kteri vlastni incomingovou cestovni kancelar Incoczech Travel Prague, hledaji krajany pracujici v cestovnim ruchu (nejlepe v Bostonu, Minneapolis, Dallasu, Houstonu a Torontu, nebo blizkem okoli ) . Ivos a Honza zavitaji k nam do Ameriky 26. 9., zustanou az do 10.10. a chystaji se rozsirit rady svych zakazniku touroperatory a cestovnimi kancelaremi v USA a Kanade. Pokud mate chut se s nimi sejit a vyslechnout si jejich nabidku sluzeb tykajici se Prahy, Cech, Slovenska a cele Stredni Evropy a casem s nimi treba zacit spolupracovat, nevahejte je kontaktovat:
Ivo Kostelac
Phone #: +420 296 799 604
Email: kostelac@incoczech.com

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Tagged as: Czechs in Canada, Czechs in the USA, jobs

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Czech supermodel plans a secret wedding / Ceska supermodelka se tajne vdala

Simona Krainova is probably not as famous as Eva Herzigova or Tereza Maxova but as far as Czech supermodels go, she is still in the front line. Her 37th birthday was quite the adventure: not only did she get pregnant with her first child during this year (and yes, it is a boy) but she recently also had a secret wedding ceremony! Simona married Karel Vagner jr. who is a bit younger than her (35 years old) but almost as successful.

The wedding was also very private, not even the couple’s family members were invited, including the husband’s father – Karel Vagner senior who is a well know Czech musician. [click to continue…]

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Tagged as: celebrities, supermodels

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Vaclav Havel like you have never seen him before! /Takoveho Havla jste jeste nevideli!

I came across these cool photos of Vaclav Havel – the former Czech president. It kind of gives an overview of his fruitful life, ever since he was just a ‘nobody’ until his post-president era when he had a chance to meet with Mr. Obama (or rather, Obama had a chance to meet with Havel??) Take a look (click here)!
CZ: Ani nevim, co jsem na internete hledala, ale skoncila jsem na strankach Oldricha Skaly – znameho fotografa, zachycujiciho zivot Vaclava Havla. Fotky nam priblizuji Vaska jiz od utleho mladi, kdyz byl jeste ‘obycejny’ chlapek, az po dobu, kdy si ho pozval na obed samotny Obama (nebo Obama pozval na obed samotneho Havla??).
Fotky muzete shlednout zde (klinete zde).

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Tagged as: art, celebrities, cool stuff, politics

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Gooseberries and currants: not of this world / Angrest a rybiz: ovoce z jineho sveta

Just like you heard me complain about cherries I would like to raise another important fruit issue: currants and gooseberries. Whatever has happened to them? Did they commit some horrible crime to the American people that most of them don’t even know what they are?

I happened to come across a little tiny box of some very tiny gooseberries in the grocery store the other day and since they were on sale I put them in my basket. Unfortunately, they were completely tasteless – nothing like what I was used to in the Czech Republic. You see, the Czechs grow up on currants and gooseberries. They hang over every fence and grow in almost every garden. They are easy to take care of and are also very nutritious. In fact, they are so sour at times, that one could probably overdose on vitamin C from them!

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Tagged as: fruit, hist, sweet kitchen

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