Day 6

Ahoj from Sokolov!

Hello! from the town who is always rumbling with sirens and people speaking a language that I don't understand just yet. The town if full of people walking back and forth from school, work, play, and I can not forget the most important thing, walking their dogs. It seems as if everyone has a dog. This gives a whole new meaning to "Everyone and their dog." In a town of 26,000 people that means there is at least 30,000 dogs in this town. The dogs range from little ugly things to beautiful Golden Retrievers. Seeing all these dogs makes me want one, but I can not afford anything like that. One day I will get one and I will name her Pheobe.

Now on to what has happend the last few days.

I have been pretty much walking around the town just getting use to where I need to go for food and all the jazz. Speaking of food, I am feeling really great about my ablility to cook and keep myself and my roommate feed. But I have been spending all my money on food and it doesn't seem to be enough food to even last a week. I am trying to get use to the idea of prepairing food for the future be it can get to be much. I am sure I will get use to it once I get my first pay check in October.

Enough about food, it's making me hungry.

Today I went to a meeting with my school. All I had to do was sit in for just a little bit so that I can get introduced. Boy was that fun! When it came to be time to be introduced and so I stood up. Meanwhile some of the ladies were giggling to each other a little but until I said Dobre den (good day) they all just busted out laughing. I then asked my Head Teacher what was it that they were laughing at. It took her a little bit to tell me that they were laughing at me when I said dobre den. I guess they didn't think I know a little of Czech. Hum? O well.
While they were in their meeting I was going through some of the lessons I will be teaching. Looking over everything makes me feel great! I now know what it is that I will be teaching soon!

The classes that I will have range from grades 5th to 9th some of them have had english four years, three years, and all the way to one year, and that one year is a 9th grade class. This will be hard but I am sure it can be fun. I will have 22 lessons to teach a week. I don't know how I feel about that yet but I am sure you will find out soon enough. HA!

Once I was done with the school for the day I went to the foreign police. I had to show them my visa and tell them that I am a real person. It only took a few minutes. Afterwards I was going to get a bank account here so that my paycheck can just go straight to the account. But, they were about to close for lunch. I would have to waite for about thirty minutes but I was hungry and I am still not able to order food yet in confidence. I just ended up walking home to eat something. So, I will go back tomorrow and get that all squared out.

For this weekend we are having a retreat in Prauge on Saturday. This is a retreat with everyone within the Central European crew. Me and Matt are thinking about leaving on Friday so that we can stay all day Saturday and come back on Sunday. So, wish us luck!

God really hasn't shown to much to me about the people here because I haven't really had the chance to meet to many people and have converstations with them. Unless you count the interaction with the people who randomly come to your door asking to use your phone or ring your door bell and start speaking Czech. That just happend just a bit ago while I was writing this. One thing I want God to do for me is to help me learn Czech and be able to have a conversation with those who don't know Czech but are willing to talk. That is one thing I wish God would help me out with.

Anywho, I don't want to keep you all from your busy lives. So, I must go and get things squared out with this weekend and also for my classes. NICE!!

In Christ
Derick

P.S. My spellcheck is only checking for Czech and not English. (wow so many checks). So, I am sorry for the wrong spelling on things. I will try to put up some photos as soon as I figure things out on this thing.