Weekend

On Friday I taught a Character Education class at CISP. Then at 5:00 I met Blanka, a 27-year old nun who has taken one year away from the convent to re-examine her vocation and learn the skills of living independently. She plans to teach English and Czech when she goes home to Moravia, a region of the Czech Republic. She was one of three Christians in her classes growing up, and did not like religion until she had an experience receiving God's love and Jesus' salvation when she was 15. She is very nice and will teach me more about Czech culture than I will teach her about English!

On Saturday Lance and I found Big Ben, an "English" bookstore. Compared to Barnes and Noble, it is a hole-in-the-wall, but we picked up a book, and then went to Charles University Bookstores, which also had very few books.

On Sunday I went to the International Church with my friends from IICS, and then we went to a large department store, IKEA. It took forever to get through the lines of people, but it was nice to be together.

One of the students from Lance's school came over last night. He is from Mexico, named Isaak, and we watched Oliver Twist.