Beginning Winter Break

I started this blog so that people can know what I'm up to next semester.  I'm going to be studying abroad in Prague, so I'm not going to be able to keep in contact with people as easily.  In order to try to get in the habit of actually updating this, I'm going to try to start posting stuff up here before I leave.  My goal is a post at least once a week, but I have a tendency to forget to keep posting stuff.  Hopefully my friends and family will give me hell about it if I start getting too lazy about it.  At this point, I'll just write about what all's going on in my life, but it's not going to get really interesting until I leave at the end of January.  I also might be getting an account with smugmug or something like that, so I can post lots of pictures of everything I do, but I'm not sure what's going to happen with that yet.  I'll post it up here if I do get one.

Yesterday, I left Boone for the semester.  It was more of a bittersweet moment than I was expecting it to be.  I am having trouble fully grasping that I'm not going back to Boone for school next semester, I still feel like it's my home and where I should be.  I'm going to miss all my wonderful friends and amazing sisters in Boone while I'm gone, both at home and in Prague.  That being said, I am so excited about seeing all my friends from good old HoCo.  Tomorrow I'm going to see about working at Turkshish again for the time that I'm here.  For all you people in Howard County, if anyone's going to actually read this, you should come visit me at Turkshish Kebap House.  It's an awesome little Turkish place with awesome food, with both vegetarian and meat options, or at least it was good last time I went.  I'm also going to be going to a bunch of concerts at Hebron for Jay, my brother.  This weekend alone, there are at least two concerts there.  He's in the good band and choir group, so it'll be fun concerts.

Since I am going to the Czech Republic soon and I'll have to learn Czech, I think I'm going to try to end each of these entries with a fun phrase in Czech.  That way I have to start thinking about the language and hopefully that will make it easier for me to learn over there.


Hodit flintu do žita
This phrase means "to throw in the towel" and is literally translated "to throw the rifle into the rye".