February

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So as I said before, on the first of February, I got sick. Lovely way to start off a month if I do say so myself.
After a monday visit to the doctor, it was determined that I had Tonsillitis. From Sunday to Friday (wednesday being my bday) I was on sick leave from school, the rotary meeting of the week an dall other activities that required me to leave the house.. Which in the end was not too bad, besides being unbelievably boring, the weather was simply atrocious! So all filled up on meds and stuck in bed, I managed to put quite a dent in the reading that I wanted to do, the positive look at the week.

Being the adorable families that they are, my three host families came together for a bday dinner on wednesday as well as a Rotary member bringing birthday and get well wishs. It was a lovely evening despite being curled up on the couch in big poofy pjs and warm blankets with a steeping cup of tea in hand.. not what I had pictured for my nineteenth bday. hah but fantastic :)

I had to get better pronto, Friday night Josh (an exchange student from Oloumoc from New York) came for a visit. Adam and I showed him our little Krasne Pole that evening and then I took Josh on the grand tour of Ostrava Saturday afternoon before we headed over to Vanessas to get reading for the Rotary Ball being held. We crowded into Vanessas place, which is currently and conveniently downtown, and through a cloud of hairspray, assorted eyeshadows and perfumes, we emerged ready for the ball.

Despite what are expectations and rumurs had led us to believe, the evening was bit of a flop as far as us exchangees were concerned. It was gorgeous, there was great entertainment, and scrumptious looking food, but we were given a table in a storage room a hall away from the party and asked to stick around do that if they needed help they would know where to find us.. I dont mind helping out of course.. its just not what we were expecting.. We stuck it out for a few hours keeping a younger assistant, who had been roped into guarding the key to the entertainments dressing room, company, then asked politely if we were needed before heading out to show Josh some Ostrava nightlife.

** we also held a moment of silence to honour the students in Oregon. Josh put together a group on Facebook to announce the moment to the exchange students in our district and with the help of everyones connections we spread the word to over eight thousand people. Shout out to Josh for his great idea and to everyone who tok part in the silence!!
- Thank You**

The next week (the 15th) our group headed off to the Alps, 5 cars in tow all headed to our Austria destination : the Richtars + me, Viteks family (2nd host), Adams family (3rd host), Jindras family, and Aničkas family. FANTASTIC!! Veronika and Hanka were also headed to the same glacier but were in a different lodge and we only bumped into them a few times.. but I will write a seperate blog for the Alps.. It was one heck of a week!!

It was another month of busy weekends :) The weekend after the Alps there was another Ball, and despite the fact that I didnt attend this one (previously made plans with Vanessa) there were some mighty good stories that surfaced.

... And so it was march...