Day 12

First of all I´m sorry for the huge time gap between this and the previous blog. I just came back from language camp in Třebič, where I have been for the last week, with very limited access to a computer.
Language camp was a blast! The inbounds are fabulous and we had tons of fun!! It was fantastic being able to meet some of the kids that are going through similar things.. interesting meals, new living arrangements, meeting new family and friends and dealing with a very difficult language.
I leave on Friday to Slovakia to meet the other half of our district. There was 20 inbounds at language camp, and I believe there is a similar number of inbounds staying in Slovakia, hopefully there is a little bit more of a diverse group over there.. Not that there is anything wrong with the Czech inbounds but there is a definite lack of diversity in comparison to district 5060. There is 1 Australian, 1 Brazilian, 2 Mexicans, 3 Canadians, and 13 Americans.. Out of the 20 of us there is 6 guys and 14 gals.
Compared to life in general here in the Czech Republic, the rules were very strict. We had breakfast at 730... lesson1, break, lesson 2, lunch, lesson 3, break, lesson 4, Dinner, Evening activity... Bed..... every night. There just was´t a lot of downtime for us to get to know each other. It was our first group meeting after all. We had to be in our own rooms by 10... lights out. sound asleep. Of course that didn´t happen, us gals know how to chat like no tomorrow, and apparently the boys downstairs were little chatty cathy´s themselves.
The first night, a girl from one of the other rooms came to have a little visit.. after 10, but before the rotary hall guard started duty :), we lost track of time and she ended up getting stuck in our room for the evening. We tried multiple times and had some pretty clever (if i do say so myself) plans to try to try and sneak her out of the room with out him noticing. For the rest of the week she just bunked with us. We had to much fun chatting it up for her to be in another room!! We also forgot to bring towels to the hostel.. assuming there would be some there.. .so between what ended up to be 5 gals in our room, we shared one bathroom and had community towels. Wednesday we made our way to the supermarket so we could buy some goodies for our evening chats........ escorted.. of course.. so we all stocked up for the remaining 3 nights. ( I bought their version of Keiffer (just for you moe... and for the lack of dairy products in my daily diet....), some vitamin C... there hasn´t been all that many fruits or veggies... a chocolate bar, and some flavored mineral water.) Two of the gals bought their items together and really went all out... and considering my purchases definitely didn´t make it till the wee hours of Saturday morning, I was very appreciative!
One of the evenings prior to our Supermarket binge, we went bowling. It was soo much fun! We all had a blast and our team did quite well. At the end of the evening prizes were awarded to top team (my team!!), Top boy (Cord), Top gal (Karmin), and second gal (Kayla)... because of the girl to boy ratio.. The bowling rink also awarded this bottle of Bubblee, a non-alcoholic beverage that was i a champagne bottle. Between the 5 of us we managed to obtain, 2 bottles of Bubblee, half of the top team prize..box of chocolates.. and the prize for second gal. A few of the gals had also purchased some chips while at the rink that we added to our lovely feast of goodies that we shared that evening over our chat :)
On the last night, just when we thought we would have a short little chat before heading off to bed, one of the girls remembered that I had mentioned that I cut my own hair, and came running out of the bathroom asking if I would cut hers. So we looked through all of our bags and came up with a pair of scissors! We sat there in the middle of our Hostel room, towels all around us to catch the hair as it fell, for about 2 hours.. A trim, with layers and some slight side bangs.... I was nervous as all get out! Then again.. so was she :) In the end it all worked out great, the cut was a success!!
In the end it was a great week, I made some great friends, saw a beautiful town, and even picked up a few words!
So I´m off to bed, I have school tomorrow and I have to make up for lost sleep!

Dobrou Noc!

Anička

P.S.
To the Rotary club: thank you ever so much for language camp, I´m no where near fluent, but it helped me to take a few baby steps towards being able to understand. Thank you.