Christmas to now.

So yes, I went home for Christmas.  It was great.  I pet puppies and held babies and caught up with friends.  But this is not The Blog From Home!  This is the Blog from Prague!!  Whaaaaat! 

I got back into Prague a few days before New Years Eve.  Jet Lag.  Awful jetlag.  New Years Eve was lots of fun with B and her Finnish boyfriend M and the Canadian friend C.  Had dinner at M's then we went to a bar in Zizkov, then went to the hill in Riegrovy Sady, watched fireworks and drunk people, met up with Czech boy D, went back to the bar, and then crashed at C's since she lived the closest.  They love their fireworks here, you could hear them going off all week actually. 

The first week back to work was long.  Not too difficult since a lot of students were still on their holidays.  Just super slow to get back into the swing of things. 

Took a day-trip to Dresden last Saturday.  Check Germany off the list, although I do maybe want to go to Berlin or Munich.  It wasn't very big, but it was pretty and quite interesting.  Almost everything was bombed in WWII  (like most of Germany), so everything has been rebuilt to look like it did.  There's debate about where the actual Slaughterhouse 5 is or was, but it's where Kurt Vonnegut was a POW. 

Last Thursday I had a Skype interview with a language school in Santiago, Chile.  I think it went well but there were some tough questions about what I'd do in certain situations so I don't know how I did with those.  I won't hear back until mid-March so I'm going to do more researching and searching until then. 

This weekend was really busy in a social way.  Got a couple of beers with some TEFL people on Friday night.  Saturday there was a get-together at another TEFL person's flat with food and games, then I went to a pub for my Australian friend T's going away party.  I always just saw her around at stuff, we never hung out on our own but I always really liked her.  Sunday I helped B move and went to see "The Descendants".  George Clooney looks hilarious when he runs. 

I was all prepared for another iced over, freezing winter in Prague, but it hasn't even really snowed much yet.  It's cold but still above freezing for the most part.  About half sunny/half cloudy days.  I tell the new ones how nice this is and how lucky they are. 

Honestly, January is taking forever.  It seems like New Years happened so long ago.