My birthday/ the first week at camp

Today is a special day. First - its my birthday, second - its been a week since I came to the camp. I wont comment much on the first one, because I still have problems with actually saying the number of years I just turned... not that I would feel old or regret anything I had done in the past xx years, but the number itself just doesnt sound good.

How is the camp? Its really nice. We are - as I said before - in the middle of nowhere, in woods with two beautiful lakes. We sleep in wooden cabins, take a shower under the stars and are basically 24/7 outside which is great! There are squirrels and chipmonks running everywhere...its amazing.. We can even see loads of fish in the lakes... well...mosquitos as well unfortunatelly.. :( The campers havent come yet, so its been a lot of fun + learning in the past week. We did a lot of training about children behaviour, how to handle them, etc. which was very usefull - well I am really excited about Sunday when they come if I will recall all that we practiced and actually apply it on the campers. We also did a lot of games with other staff + other trainings like canoe training!! :))

Tomorrow will be our first day off, so we will all make ourselves nice (lets say that the priority here is not that much about the looks) and go to Concord (capital of NH) for shopping... I hope to see more of the US now.

I will try to write more + publish photos as soon as possible - its a battle to be on the computer here... :0)

First days in the US

Here I am in the US!! I am somewhere near Boston waiting for dinner :) and later we are going to a camp for lifeguarding training.
I have just the best first impressions. As soon as I left Prague, I felt great - flying far far away to the unknown world, looking for new adventures. Even the trip in the plane was exciting. As we landed in New York I saw the skyscrapers townline and it was just beautiful.
New York is awesome... I didnt have much time to go out, but I was on the Broadway street, was ripped off by a taxi driver and was walking on the streets and looking high up on the skyscrapers. Its really a city that never sleeps.
Whats also funny is how all the people speak English ;) I know it sounds strange, but I am used to people using English only as a communication language. They normally have another native language... but here... they just speak English - so noone turns to his friend and says something you dont understand...
Well, thats about all that I can say right now. Ofcourse I slept for the past 2 days for only about 4 hours, my back hurts from carrying all my luggage around, but so far I am really happy that I did this.

Last minutes before leaving...

My packing has come to an end. I ended up with 2 bags and a small one. The first plan was to take just one...but somehow everything is important to take. They are not that heavy though... not more than 20 kg together. I am leaving to the airport in about 30 minutes... what can I say... just love the stress of late packing :-)
How do I feel? More scared than excited actually (did I pack everything? where the hell am I going?) - but hopefully will get over it soon.
I dont know about my internet connection at the camp yet, but I will try to write at least something :-)
OK, lets go... Flying from Prague to London, London to New York, spend one day there, New York - Boston (bus!!!), lifeguarding training and finally Wabasso Camp, NH!

Night full of culture

I just came back from a museum night, which is an event, where about 50 museums or similar objects are opened during the night, that is from 7 p.m. till 1 a.m., the entrance is free and there are many concerts and other events all around.

The night was beautiful. It was not too cold, not too hot - and we were walking around the center of Prague - and as I wrote before - it is still breathtaking, especially at night. We managed to see 4 museums and 1 concert. Museums were quite alright, one was an art museum - we saw some "sculptures" made of plastic bottles, next one was a painting exhibition, then a house built in cubist style and the last one was full of different objects (ritual weapons, jewellery,..) from all over the world (Tonga - for example...who knows where it is? ;-) )
The concert was also great - especially the atmoshpere. It was Gerschwin - some parts from Porgy and Bess at Valdstejnska zahrada. Too bad we didnt stay that long, because not all of our "museum crowd" (we were 4 girls) was much into classical music.. :-)

Well, not everything was great, especially the huge crowd of people cueing infront of almost every museum - which was the main reason why we didnt get to see all we wanted... But to sum it up, it was worth going :-)

2 days to go

Today is Saturday and I am leaving on Monday morning already. I havent started packing yet so I am very nervous as I always leave everything for the last moment... I did start shopping, but most of my attempts to buy something are unsuccesfull... I tried about 100 pairs of shoes on yesterday, but none seemed to be suitable for what I need... well...of course it may be because I dont really know what I need :-))
I just know I will be somewhere in the middle of the forest, with two bordering lakes (or one lake and one pond) - probably spending most of my time at the lake but what if it rains? Or what about after I finish at the lake? Anyway, these are my biggest worries at the moment.. Hopefully I will be more lucky with shopping today and in the evening I am looking forward to the Museum night in Prague :-)

Ready to go!

2 more weeks before flying to the US and I am already sooo excited! I searched through my parents library and found many maps, guide-books and photos - so now all I do is read, plan and realise that there are so many places I want to see and so little time.


I will be in the North-East, so I will be around cities like Boston, New York, Philadelphia, not too far from Niagara Falls. After that would be great to go and lay on a beach for a couple of days - who knows where :-) (Sweden last year was great - but water in the sea was way too cold) Well, we will see how it will end up.