Since house-cleaning is a huge business in the US I was wondering how many of you, Czech and Slovak ladies, hire (or would hire) a house cleaning lady? If you have not been brought up in Czech or Slovakia let me give you a little bit of a background on this situation. Back when I was a child everyone cleaned their house himself – there was no question about it. Having a cleaning lady coming to scrub your toilets meant that you were either really rich (which was unlikely) or there was something physically wrong with you (sickness, injury, old age). If you were to suggest those services to some woman during those years she would probably laugh at you and said something like: “What? Are you crazy? Why would I let some stranger in the house AND pay him money, if I can do that stuff myself?”.
I haven’t heard of such ‘magical’ services until I came to the US and I have to say I was kind of apprehensive of it at first. And I admit, I would still probably not hire any cleaning help just because I am a stay-home mom (and also a blogger!!) and I have more time to clean than someone who works full-time. But also, if someone were to clean my house, I would probably end up feeling bad for that lady the whole time she was there, wanting to help her! You know what is the worst about this whole business? Some of my American friends do use house-cleaning services and they actually clean before the cleaning crew comes so that they would not feel embarrassed about their ‘real’ mess!!! Now, what is the point of that?? Just clean the whole house when you are at it!! [continue reading…]
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A well-known beautiful Czech actress Katerina Brozova has a new ‘hobby’. She has recently received a candidacy from the CSSD party for the upcoming October elections. If she were to get a seat in the House of Commons she would like to concentrate on the culture related issues, she says. The leader of the party, Jiri Paroubek, is hoping that involving such celebrities like Brozova herself will help them getting more votes from the public. His ‘smart’ technique has its critics however. The current CSSD congresman, Vlastimil Aubrecht, voices his sceptical oppinion: “I cannot imagine how can someone sit 3 weeks in a congress, then study the laws and manage his acting career on top of everything else”. According to mr. Aubrecht the opposition party (ODS) is being much smarter about this particular issue, putting their celebrities on the actual pitching billboards (which I also find more logical). 
I found a great blog to share with you. It’s called Girl in Czechland and it is written by an English girl who fell in love with a Czech dude; she fell in love with him soooo deeply that she moved to Prague to be with him! Now, he better be a nice guy because she sure is very nice and a very good writer too. Go ahead and sample her blog by reading ‘
Does your health care system suffer with the deficiency of a nursing staff? Learn from the Czechs! One private clinic in Prague decided to offer
On May 30th passed away Waldemar Matuska, one of the most prominent Czech/Slovak singers of the 60’s and 70’s. He was born in Kosice (Slovakia) and later raised in Prague. Inheriting music genes from his mom, Waldemar played various instruments from an early childhood. Later he became an actor in a famous Prague theatre Semafor. As his popularity increased he began writing songs for movies as well as doing the acting part in them. Matuska was a singing partner to many other Czech stars like Helena Vondrackova, Marta Kubisova or Jitka Zelenkova and he won the Zlaty Slavik competition twice. In 1986 he and his family decided to emigrate to the USA (namely to the state of Florida). The communists punished him by banning all of his songs, completely destroyed couple of his recordings as well as deleted his opening song in the popular television series Chalupari. He continued to perform in the US, mostly for the Czechoslovak emigrants. Matuska died of pneumonia and heart faliure at the age of 76.
June gloom is here and with it not-so-gloomy Czech and Slovak celebrations. We have numerous Czech/Slovak festivals coming up AND the all-time-favorite Czech band Czechomor is touring the USA and Canada :0)
This amazing story is about Lilly Friedman, a woman who was raised in a former Czechoslovakia and who also survived Auschwitz, a forced labor camp, a death march and 
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