December 7, 2005

Some great quotes from my students lately:Asking me about my other students: "Do your other students speaking English good also?"Talking about holiday gifts: "A new refrigerator is important because cold beer is necessary for life."Talking about why this one student doesn't make New Year's resolutions: "When...  

We are on the hunt for new office space. This should not be a difficulty, as one thing that Prague has plenty of is available office space. Construction companies build and build but then owners sit on empty space, unwilling to lower their prices for fear of a market slide in per meter square pricing. My...  

The Christmas tree on Wenceslas Square is blue this year. I don’t mean that it has a bluish tone. And it’s not a blue spruce either. It’s not a spruce at all. It’s an artificial tree and when darkness falls, the flashing blue pyramid could be transported directly to the Vegas Strip. Someone must have...  

This is a wiew at an en end of the Charles bridge in Prague... I think that if you use a tripod, you can stay at low iso speed, because you can afford long times. I had another version with iso 200, but I like this one (iso 50) better.  

Witches are good news in Czech kitchens. A witch doll hanging up in your kitchen will, apparently, bring luck to your house, scaring away evil spirits. The life-size witch with the glowing LED eyes outside U Carodejek (Praha 1, Ramova 4, tel 222 314 957) nearly scared the Weaselarium away, but we are at heart a brave people, and went in to see what their dumplings might be like ...