It's time for hedgehogs to have sex under our window. The
night is warm and all I hear is wild sniffing and heavy breathing. Oh, I love
summer...
7:15
pm
After a busy teaching day I go to my mum's house where I
meet up with my sister and we take some cool pictures. That's more or less
everything I did today. Oh, one more thing, I almost forgot. I found more twin
yolk in an egg. What happened to these hens?
Today they are only few activities worth mentioning. I
will be short as I am too sleepy and still haven't fully recovered from my "wild"
celebrating and not sleeping at least 8 hours a day.
1. We had scrambled eggs for breakfast. I chose 6 eggs which
ended up having 9 yolks in total! The first time I found a twin egg and it
happened twice in the same "batch".
2. I did yoga followed by some other exercises.
3. I visited my old friend. We used to be sort of best
buddies when we were 16 and then didn't see each other much after high school,
so we had a good chat on her balcony. I went to her place by scooter and it was
a good workout.
4. My boyfriend and I finally planned a holiday for the next week - we are going to Moravia!
5. I felt kind of dizzy all day, I guess I need to sleep much
more.
Today was a short and good day. I will tell you all about
it tomorrow when I wake up cause now I'm too tired.
Here's
a summary:
We woke up very late.
It rained a lot for 8 minutes and then it got sunny and
hot again. In the evening the temperature dropped substantially (to satisfy
all kinds of Czechs out here, I guess - I wonder id anybody complained).
I applied a mud mask on my face.
We attended an international wedding , I had two small
beers and danced to a small acoustic rock concert. And jumped like 1 meter high
(barefoot) while they were playing Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit.
I
wake up because I promised to show my student M how to use Skype. We agreed to
have Skype lessons in the near future. She used to be a complete beginner and
would come to the class twice a week until she had to give labor (almost
literally, she gave birth something like 5 days after our last lesson and I always
admired how she could manage studying while she was feeling so tired). Now she
is at home with a 5 week old baby girl.
8:55 am
I
take a nap again.
10:03 am
I'm
woken up by a phone call. My other student is calling. She is feeling too bad
to have the lesson today. I'm so sleepy but try to sound super energetic. One
good thing is I still get paid for this lesson as it is arranged through a
language school. This day is gonna be good. But for now, good night!
10:40 am
Wakey
wakey! Ugh. My eyes are tired. I have some sort of breakfast - lots of
different kinds of tea with whole-wheat cookies.
Yoga,
laudry, music.
Here's a song Markýza
andělů by a charismatic Czech singer-songwriter and actor Ondřej Brzobohatý.
12:00 pm
"To
je ale dusno," says my neighbor as I go out with a bag full of wet
laundry. I love hanging clothes outside. Her statement would translate as 'What
a stuffy day.' It's been hot and sunny for several days and it hasn't rained.
Czech people love to complain, and if it's about weather, they love it even
more. I engage in these kinds of conversations to be polite but I always say
that I'm happy it's hot.
I
know it's not only with Czechs, but I think us Czechs are a bit extreme about
this:
"It's
terrible. It's so cold! I want some sun."
"Ugh.
It's so hot. I wish it rained a bit, the plants in my garden are getting dry."
"It's
been raining like forever. There's no sunshine."
"It's too
hot!"
It's
a circle. I know who's to blame. Of course: the weather! :-D But hey, we have
to learn to be happy with what we have. We rarely have forest fires, flooding,
earthquakes and tornadoes, so what else do we want?
12:45 pm
Time to make lunch. My boyfriend is coming over to eat with me and I'm super happy because I told you I don't like eating alone. I got a big zucchini from my mum's garden (weighs over 1.5 kilos) and I'm going to make pasta from it.
It's massive! (That's what she said, hahahaha. Sorry, but I couldn't help it, it was too tempting.)
1:15 pm
My boyfriend and I are cooking together. Julienne peeler was a good investment: 69 Kč. We use it quite often to make zucchini or carrot stripes. It's a lot of fun to make them. I peeled the zucchini (by the way, I hate typing this word, I always misspell it) and my boyfriend cooked minced meat with vegetables and tomato sauce - bolognese style.
1:40 pm We are having lunch while watching an episode of Sex and the City. The lunch is delicious and definitely nutritious!
3:05 pm Another load of washed clothes. Doing laundry is a never-ending story. I said I like hanging clothes outside, but not so much when I'm in a hurry. I promised to meet a friend at around 2 pm. I'm late again (and yet I'm here typing). One load of laundry means over 30 minutes of my time.
choosing which clothes to wash + checking for stains that need stain remover: 5-10 minutes
hanging the clothes: 10 minutes
taking the clothes down: 5-10 minutes
folding the clothes: 10 minutes
But I'm so glad that we have a washing machine and we don't iron most of the clothes :-) 3:09 pm Time to go. 3:20 pm My friend and I need to catch up; I haven't seen her in several months. She made ice coffee for us, I tried her homemade pizza and then ate a piece of her mum's blueberry cake. My lips and teeth are purple. Could life get any better?
6:45 pm We are going to Prague to celebrate my boyfriend's birthday (preliminarily). I will be the designated driver because I don't want to drink anyway (I wonder why? :-D). 8:00 pm We are at a hamburger restaurant where I drink a "radler" at the beginning and from then on until 3:30 am I drink water. I am incredibly sleepy but with energy, it's such a weird feeling. I could run as quickly as I can if it could be with my eyes closed. My eyelids are too heavy. We are having fun though.
We
go to bed. I sleep on a thin sleeping mat in a sleeping bag but I certainly
don't mind.
11 am
Lucka
and I wake up. I wanted to be in my hometown by now. I guess I slept like a
queen.
1:27 pm
I
have two sentences to say (for now):
I
love my life.
I'm
still drunk from yesterday's party with my girls from the uni.
1:35 pm
I'm
sitting on the subway heading to the main bus station. I'm tired, drunk,
hungry, thirsty and happy. I close my eyes and feel like I'm flying. Also, I am
SITTING on the subway, which I never do. I already mentioned I try to
avoid sitting when I can because sitting too much is not good for our body.
I
teach three and a half hours today. I hope my students won't notice. It had
never happened to me before that I would be drunk the next day. First of all, I
don't get drunk very often. This month is a big exception because I'm celebrating
the fact that I turned 25 and I look younger to most of the people.
3:30 pm
Lesson
1 is starting. I'm honest and I tell the girl I feel a bit hungover and ask her
to have only a 60 minute lesson today. She's cool with it.
7:15 pm
Yeii,
I've finished my lessons! I'm hungry, sleepy, but in a good mood.
7:20 pm
I'm
a genius. I have enough chicken tikka masala left in the fridge and so I can
have dinner served in no time.
7:55 pm
My
boyfriend finally arrived from Malta! We chat and start cleaning the apartment.
8:30 pm
Oh,
here we go. I'm feeling cranky. Hangover stages take turns and trying my
patience. Just like I wrote it once in my other blog. 8:40 pm I take a nap because I see how difficult and annoying everything feels right now. 9:25 pm Waking up. I feel a bit better but I wish it was tomorrow. 9:40 pm My dinner consists of whole-wheat bun ('kaiserka' in Czech) with butter, ham and bell pepper. I love 'kaiserkas', especially the whole-wheat ones with lots of different kinds of seeds in them. Time is passing somehow quickly. I put my headphones on, listen to music and manage the pictures I have taken. It's one of those weird stages when I feel grateful and in love with life but I am cranky at the same time. The song for this evening is Girl Crush by Little Big Town. I love it. If you listen to the lyrics, you will find out it has nothing to do with homosexuality but it's a clever way of saying 'I'm so jealous of her'.
0:40 am Bed. I'm tired but I can't sleep. How ironic.
I
have no idea how many hours I slept but it was definitely less than 6. All I
know is that before falling asleep I couldn't stop touching my legs in bed -
not because I would be horny, but because I had bought this aftershave lotion
with shea oil. Yesterday was the first day I used it and I can say it works so
far. It's too warm at night and hot during the day to sleep well but I don't mind
because I love this kind of summer. It
awakens my senses and I feel like I can do anything. And I CAN!
9:07 am
I
really want to sleep more but I'm hungry. I eat a waffle with maple syrup, sliced
banana and cinnamon sugar and then I go to bed again. I close my eyes but I can't
sleep because my new phone and books I got for my birthday distract me too much.
11:57 am
It's
decided: I won't sleep. I have read, chatted on Whatsapp and managed to agree
to meet my friends from the university in Prague tonight. I'm still home alone
and today there's no work for me. There are too many things I want and need to
do, so I won't sleep now.
12:10 pm
I
do a bit of yoga while listening to Spanish group Fito & Fitipaldis. My
legs still hurt a bit from exercising three days ago but I think I will do some
more exercise today before I hit the town center.
12:20 pm
I
have a shot of this herbal drink I got for my birthday. I have two bottles: one
for good morning and the other one for good night, which contains a bit of red wine.
12:25 pm
Song
Butterfly by Crazytown comes up on my
iTunes. It reminds me of when I was 14 years old. When it finishes, I put Foo
Fighters - a band I love for working out (and not only for that actually) I do
a quick glutes & legs workout:
jump
split squats 3 x 20
dumbbell
squats 3 x 20
wall
sits 3 x 35 seconds
glute
bridge 3 x 20
I
did three rounds. It took me 16 minutes. Uff. It's 32 °C outside and 28 °C inside
our apartment.
1:00 pm
Things I hate: cooking only for myself and eating alone. However,
I do have to eat, so I put three eggs to boil.
1:25 pm
There's
no bread or tortillas. Luckily we have vegetables and a few pickled seranos.
I'm a genius! (A starving genius)
1:42 pm
I feel like I'm high.
It might be the heat, it might be the music (still listening to Foo Fighters),
it might be the herbal drink I had 2 hours ago. I'm eating, typing, chatting on
Whatsapp and cleaning and thinking about many things at the same time.
2:00 pm
One
of the adrenaline activities I do almost daily is getting in the shower, realizing
I forgot the towel hanging on the heater in the living room, creeping around
the apartment naked and thinking nobody can see me. (Ehm, I love light and sun, so I have all the shutters rolled up). When I seize the towel, I wrap myself in
it and triumphantly and confidently walk back to the shower. You might think I
forget it on purpose, but I don't think so. What would Freud say?
2:10 pm
I
do my hair. I make some kind of bun and put my awesome rubber with a blue ribbon.
I started making these about two weeks ago and I really like it. I have been to
the haberdashery four or five times to get different colors of ribbons to make
more for me and my friends.
I
get dressed, cut my nails and watch one and a half episodes of Sex and the City.
3:20 pm
I
go out to the city (no, just town). It's still 32 °C but I need to go to the
bank and buy groceries. I get a bottle of frozen water and use it to cool
myself. Great idea! The town is dead, I only meet a few people in the streets.
4:28 pm
I'm
back! It feels hot but I don't complain. Since I was in Mexico, I don't
complain about hot Czech weather.
Time
to hang the clothes and make late lunch: chicken tikka masala with basmati
rice. Mmm...
5:45 pm I'm making colorful hair ribbons (black and yellow) for my two friends. It's so relaxing and the ribbons are pretty :-)
6:40 pm
I head to Prague to meet my friends. I put a bottle of red wine in my handbag. Let's go!
6:48 pm
I'm
leaving the apartment. The bus leaves at 6:55 and it takes 11 minutes walking
to get to the bus station. So I run. It's still like 30 degrees outside. With
a heavy handbag, with my hair bun jumping up and down, and this movement makes
it looser and looser.
I
run because:
I'm
late
I'm
late because I don't know how to be on time.
I
don't know how to be on time because in my family it has always been like this
(actually only because of my father but I seem to take after him in character).
Running is exercise. Doing exercise with this heat, though...
6:55 pm
I
make my way towards the platform 17. Yes!!! There are about ten people waiting
and still no bus. It's 10 minutes late.
7:35 pm
I
finish making the yellow ribbon on the bus and I feel like I can do anything.
So I ask the lady sitting next to me for scissors because I forgot mine and I
need to cut off the last piece of string.
8:20 pm
I
meet my friend, we buy some more wine and snacks and we head towards the Vltava
river. Soon our other friend joins us and we spend a pleasant 3 hours in the
hot night at the river bank. Let the celebration begin!
I
went to bed after 1 am but I woke up full of energy and now I feel really hungry. For
a second I wonder whether to get up and prepare what I need to do today. But I
can't get through the day knowing I only slept 4 hours, I would have a problem.
I eat a banana and go to bed.
8:30 am
The
alarm clock is ringing on my new phone. Uff, I'm glad it works. I'm always
suspicious and don't trust new technology at the beginning. In the early 2013 my
boyfriend gave me his iPhone. I had to get up at 5 am the next day to drive to my
university in a town which was about 40 minutes drive away. I had to get to a
lesson (about Spanish literature) which started at 7 am, but before that I was
supposed to pick up a friend who lived in another town on the way. I didn't
wake up because I had forgotten to put the volume on. My friend was calling me
like crazy. Neither of us went to the class and my friend was pissed off for
about two hours until I called the teacher personally and explained it was all
my fault that we hadn't been to the class. Sometimes it's good to be honest!
I
need to get to my class. Shower, music,
breakfast, hair, makeup, clothes (I put a summer dress on and deliberately
didn't put panties on - not because I would want to seduce my student - it's a woman
and I'm not into that kind of stuff... yet? haha - but because I just felt like
it and it's too hot outside), running around and thinking I'm gonna leave late
again.
9:26 am
I'm
leaving the house. I will be about minutes late but that's okay. This lesson is
not formal.
Walking
outside in a summer dress with no panties feels
awesome. Have you ever done it?
9:30-11:00 am
I
have a lesson with Mrs M, who I saw yesterday as well. She wants to speak and
go through grammar before she leaves back to China. The 90 minutes go fast as
usual. I regret not having a bigger breakfast though.
11:04 am
I'm
gone with work for today! Yes!! I run to the store to get a present for my
friend. It's so hot outside!
11:25 am
I
just got home. I need to eat and prepare my stuff. Me and a friend are
going swimming.
Scrambled
eggs, cheese, toasted bread and hummus.
I wanted to make tortillas but the
dough I had made went bad. With a tear in my eye I throw the tortilla dough to the
trash. Making it is not expensive, "dough" :-D, so I don't feel so
bad.
12:05 pm
My
friend P is here and we chat for a while.
12:40 pm
We
get in the car and she drives me to a nearby town which is famous for its sugar
factory. And, they also have an almost abandoned swimming pool. Not too fancy,
but it's cozy and not dirty.
We
swim, take pictures and my friend criticizes herself in every picture. I wonder
if I manage to get a picture of her that she will actually like.
...I think she will like this one!
I
get a beer and a hot dog and I read.
4:25 pm
I'm
back home, tired from the sunbathing but happy to have fun in the sun.
I
have nothing to do except clean the house, play with the pictures I took and
make some snack. I prepare a smoothie from banana, blueberries, strawberries, ground
oats, a bit of cream, quark and milk. (It's not dietetic, I know, but that's
not what I'm going for). I made about 700 ml.
4:50 pm
I
check Facebook and write a couple of emails.
5:20 pm
I've
started working with pictures - uploading them to Smugmug, sending them to my
family, editing them in Photoshop and thinking which ones I could use for something
useful :-). I'm also drinking my delicious smoothie.
5:45 pm
I
put herbal tea to boil - agrimony tea. It says: "Mix 2 tablespoons in half a
liter of water and then boil for 10 minutes."
5:47 pm
I
continue editing pictures while talking to my sister on Whatsapp and looking for a
pop song I heard on the radio when I was saying goodbye to my friend P. In order to find it I googled 'top pop songs' and listened to each of them individually. It was kind of fun. Pop
is not exactly my favorite type of music but sometimes I feel like listening to
it.
5:58 pm
This
tea is never gonna boil. I have to put the flame higher.
6:50 pm
Hmm,
somebody is burning something outside. Smells like marijuana or some kind of weird
cake.
6:53 pm
I
still smell it. It's like a... it's the tea!!!
It
actually didn't burn, only dried out. I wonder if it's any good. Well, since I
won't drink it, but use it for bathing my cut on the leg, I think it will be
all fine.
My
mum would probably kill me. She is an herbalist and has been collecting herbs
and making all kinds of herbal tea for as long as I live, I guess - she started in 1990.
However, I also remember my mum has burned SO MANY things. One of the most
serious moments (and funny at once) happened in winter on a Tuesday when I was about 12.
I don't know why I remember it was a Tuesday, it might not be even right. Whatever.
I came home from school, opened the door of our house and saw literally
nothing. There was steam and grey smoke coming out. I got in. There was no
fire, just lots of smoke. I ran to the kitchen and found a small tin pot with a
few burned peas dancing at the bottom of it. I turned it off and opened all the
windows. My mum came in running a few minutes later: "My pea soup!!!"
No
wonder I accidentally burn things too.
I
found the song. It's 'Want to Want Me' by Jason Derulo.
7:03 pm
The
tea is ready! Yeei, I turned it off in time.
7:43 pm
My
tea got too cold, so I must heat it up a bit. I hope I won't forget about it again
and burn it...
7:50 pm
I remembered! My kind of burned decoction is
ready. I have won! And it only took me 2 hours. I guess I'm not good at
multitasking...
8:50
pm
I'm too sleepy to do anything else. I lie
down, play with the phone for a while, watch the sky go dark and I fall asleep
at about 9:25 pm.
11:02
pm
I wake up. It's dark already and the air
still feels warm. I slowly walk to the kitchen, turn on a dim light and look
sadly at all the mess I haven't cleaned yet. I will - before I go to sleep
again! First I need to eat something, take a shower and then we can start
talking.
Cold
water, toasted bread and cheese. Too lazy to do anything
else, plus the kitchen is too messy to cook in it.
I listen to iTunes Radio - to Kryštof
Radio to be specific (Kryštof is a Czech band). The station is supposed to play music by
Kryštof and songs similar to this band but I can see it doesn't really fulfill my wish.
11:35
pm
Shower. I'm usually ready in 10-12 minutes,
but now it took me 20 minutes because I spent 5 minutes fighting my tangled hair
and another 5 minutes peeling off the polish of my nails. It was time to get it
off anyway. My hair hadn't been washed in 5 days. You might think it would look
disgusting today but that's not completely true. I now wash my hair once in
four days and it's presentable even on the fourth day. The secret is: the more often you wash
your hair, the faster it gets oily.
12:25
am
I start cleaning the kitchen. Basically I
take out some of my gifts from their packages and admire them. It's mostly
cosmetics.
1:40
am
I'm finally having a proper dinner. And I
finally sat down. When I work on my PC, I stand. I've been leaving my laptop on
a cupboard next to my desk ever since I read an article about how dangerous it
is to sit more than 6 hours a day.
As I eat, I watch Sex and the City. I started
watching season 1 two days ago. I had never seen it and last week two different
people referred to this TV show, so I decided to fill the gap in my knowledge of
American pop culture.
Season 1, episode 2
Season 1, episode 3
Season 1, episode 4
I told you I eat slowly.
2:56
am
I brush my teeth (which also takes me a
long time) and go to bed.
I haven't finished cleaning the kitchen. Tomorrow's another day and I have no lessons! :-)
