Boston, Here I Come...in 2 months

One step closer to Prague...booked my flight to Boston today.  I'm officially leaving California August 28th!  Al and I want to fly to Prague together, and since I've never been to Boston, we figured that we could squeeze in a mini-trip, and she'll show me all around New England for the weekend.  We are officially leaving Boston for Prague on August 31st, but we haven't booked that flight yet...

The TEFL class was really tough today!  I spent all day reading, taking notes, doing quizzes and writing an essay.  I still have another essay due this week, and I need to do my resume and apply to as many schools in Prague as possible by the end of this weekend!

I picked up another baby-sitting gig, which is AWESOME.  The kids are really cute, a baby boy (19 months) and adorable girl (5 years).  I am so blessed to work with such great families!  But it will be tough to leave them in August!  I'm sure that there are cute kids in Prague, but I'm not going to know what they're saying, unless they say Pivo and vino!

Building Excitement

I started babysitting for a new family today.  I'm trying to do as much babysitting as possible before I leave to save as much money as possible.  I just upped my rates and all I can think is how I'm going to basically doing the same thing in Prague.  The only difference is instead of babysitting I'll be "tutoring" or "teaching English" to people, from kids to adults.  And I'm really pumped for that.  I used quotes because all I'm really going to do is be speaking English with them, just someone to practice their English on, and that is AWESOME.  Of course this is just how I envision it to be.  I haven't finished my homework yet, so I have to get to that now...but I'll be sure to update you with all of the excitement to come.

Link to Al's Blog

If you're following my Prague Blog, you should also follow Al's Prague Blog.  Here's the link:  

http://t-your-blog.blogspot.com 

Prepping For Prague

Hey Everyone,

Since Alexandra ("Al") and I have decided to take the plunge and move to Prague, I've decided to start a blog to keep everyone in the loop of our adventures!  We just started our TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) course this week, its been quite interesting.  Al and I aren't in the same class online, which has turned out to be quite funny.  My course is the super over achiever course and the peeps in her course is the slacker course.  The peeps in my course have already finished three assignments and Al's class is just finishing up the first.  The material is pretty rudimentary, we're writing 300-500 word essays then we're asked to comment on two other classmates' essays.  So not too tough, but I'm sure it will get more challenging.  Most of the people in my course are traveling to China, whereas Al's class is mainly going to Spain.  We're the only ones going to Prague, which I think is a good thing, less competition getting a job.  We're trying to contact as many people as we can that are/have taught English abroad....so if you know anyone, please pass along their information.