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- Spend a week up a mountain learning to ski
- Visit Karoline's place in Moravia
Hold a conversation in Czech (only)- Drink 500ml of each of the following beers:
PilsnerStaroprammen- Budvar
- Velke Popovice
- U Fleku
GambrinusKrusovice
Respond to at least one GOARN request (WHO and MSF are
also acceptable)Travel across the AtlanticReturn to South America- Read a book to, or with, an impressionably aged child
- Participate in one NanoWriMo Challenge and come within at least 10,000 words of the goal length
Have my nose pierced- Have my next tattoo drawn
Purchase the perfect jeans (x 2 pairs)- Attend a spin class 3 times a week for 8 consecutive weeks
- Bake Viv's cheesecake
Make David's casserole Make David's Chicken Cashew-nut StirfryInvite 4 people who don't know one another too well to dinner- Ride from Vienna to Venice on a motorbike (pillion acceptable, those less desirable)
- Attend a book group for at least two books
- Go on a choir weekend (learn and perform difficult piece in two/three days)
- Visit Madame Tussaud's (in London)
- Take an architecture appreciation course
Join an all-girl group and sing a soloPublish in a scientific journal (top two authors)Cook a duck or other 'waterfowl'. Locate the Al-Timimi's from Doha Veterinary PractiseHave a pedicureMaintain a Brazilian (ouch) for three months.Find a trustworthy Czech hairdresser- Treat my inner-6-year-old twice a week (at least)
- Do the liver-cleansing diet properly (12 weeks)
- Don't eat out for one month
Find a flat and flatmate- Purchase one Joseph sweater
- Purchase one of the following pairs of
designer shoes (they MUST also be COMFORTABLE, and be able to be worn with 4
different outfits and 2 types of occasion): Jimmy Choos, Manolo Blahniks,
Christian Louboutin (Ebay or 2nd hand are acceptable)
- Send 5 books to the booksphere and track them.
- Go hanggliding
- Read 10 'classic' books (from 1001 Books to Read before you Die)
Moll FlandersEverything is illuminatedMadam BovaryZen & the Art of Motorcycle MaintainanceCatch-22OdysseusOn the Road
- Run (non-stop!) for 5kms outside (preferably in a street race thingy)
- Send Christmas Cards on time
Make a collage/mural out of street lights on my wallBuy a bed, build it, and sleep soundly in itGo to AfricaHost an 'event' (classified as and when)Organise a 30th Birthday PartyWear a costume- Sing on stage
- Buy a painting that evokes memories of Prague (cannot involve queues!)
Learn a god-damned card game that stays in my memory (other than fish/snap)See sunrise. Be sober. Have woken for it. Excludes months Nov-Mar- Take a walk and flip coins at each intersection
Win something- Draft a will
- Take a roadtrip
Go to Italy already- Sea Kayak around Abel Tasman Park (NZ)
Get plantsTake a train to another Eastern European Destination (accession countries are acceptable) alone preferably.- Get UK to give me a provisional motorcyclists license and simultaneously get a 'card' license.
- Go SCUBA diving again - at least two dives lasting 30mins each.
Go to a dentist. *sigh*- Do a Czech Wine Trail. And live to tell the tale
- Make an 'outbreak emergency kit'.
- Go to bed prior to 11pm every night (inc weekends) for four consecutive weeks.
- Marvel over lack of tiredness
- Dine at a Gordon Ramsey restaurant (or Nobu)- preferably for free.
Bet on the nags- Do something for charity (applying and getting a 'red card' will count)
- Walk along the Champs Elysee
- Do 100 sit ups in a row
- Do 50 pressups (arms in tight)
- Make branston pickle (or nearest substitute)
- Cook something 'new' and 'adventurous' at least once a month
Find a mentorBe a mentorLearn what mentoring is all aboutMeet an online person in real lifeResist the flirt. Once. Just one night. It's okay if people don't immediately succumb to my natural charm. Really it is.Spend time at a spa (spa towns in the CR don't count)- Send a care package to someone
Get a Tata Bojs CD- Take a French/German/Dutch course and SPEAK THE DAMNED LANGUAGE WHEN I HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY EVEN THOUGH IT MAKES ME SOUND
LIKE AN IDIOT!
- Order new contact lenses.
Make a list of things I take with me when I pack for different occasions- Eat lobster. Prepared by someone else.
Back up the blogPut everything onto an external hard drive- Find a DDR mat and console and 'dance, I say dance!'�
- Go to the beach and lie on the warm sand. For an hour. (with sunscreen on, natch)
- Take and complete a course in either: Tango, Salsa or Flamenco
- Join the Municipal Library of Prague
- Move to another country
Go to a live concert of a band I actually like- Pay off debts (student loan excl.)
Send thank you cards for every gift I receive (other than the gift of happiness, blah blah blah).- Get an agent (literary or theatre)
- Go to a sports bar without cringing, by personal choice
- Ride a rollercoaster
- Hold a snake
Spend a day wandering around a museum (not art gallery!) |
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| Friday 14 April 2006 |
Easter Traditions here
Have warned Mark that if he thinks he can get away with that sort of carry on, he'll get more than a 'glazed egg' in return. PAH!
Regardless, I recieved a care package from Mum. In it were the following:
Ferrero Rocher
A Cadbury easter egg thingy that claims itself 'only chocolate' (ha, i've heard that justification before now)
CREME EGGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A million tablets of Panadeine (obviously for the chocolate-induced hangover)
A lily of the valley candle
A book by DRKoontz
2 Little Miss Books (Sunshine and Stubborn...hmm...what COULD she have been thinking?)
A newspaper article about a €310/night place in Morocco (which looked so nice I checked the prices before the panic attack)
A weekly magazine from her local paper
A jar of BOVRIL (hooray!!)
A pack of cotton wool balls (warning to all: do not save the squishiest present to be opened last. It is NOT a great jumper, nor a funky top. It is a bag of cotton wool balls, and your attempted enthusiasm will render you the recipient of a similar gift every year hereforthwith. I love it! When I start running out in March...I simply wait...)
A Vesele Velikonoce card and...
A music stand.
I was so touched, I cried (yes, I'm pathetic). Then I retouched my makeup and went to a tango lesson. I danced with a lovely gentleman (married) called Ivan. I was informed by Marek (male instructor) and Radka (female instructor) that I 'had to let the man lead'. Poor Ivan. But they also noticed that I already had a lot of skills needed...mostly the posture (essentially, me leaning on/over Ivan). By the end of the evening, we'd gotten the basic move and the ocho sorted out. I'm so impressed.
My life in Prague cannot be described as 'slow' or 'staid'. For those of you who like to keep my schedule close to your heart:
Friday: Collect Mark from his hotel. Drink with Marketa in town. Go back to mine (so I can change). Vibrations.
Saturday: Brunch at Tulip. Shop for a pack (he's sporty, he MUST know what I'll need) Dinner at Slavia with Mark & possibly cousins. Onwards to Popo, Bombay or somewhere else.
Sunday: Brunch at Radost. Do a walking thing (you know, like Prague-Walk-3 on Flickr). Maybe have Sunday Roast with some other english expats. (I hope so, it's been AGES since I've had a proper meal!).
Monday: Collect car. Drive to Cesky Krumlov. Alternative (if weather bad, timing poor etc) Karlovy Vary. Picnic (or something) along the way. Drop me off at home.
Tuesday: Dinner with an expat guy.
Wednesday: Rehearsal with Intunition
Thursday: Tango lesson. Recording Intunition.
Friday: Party. Performance for INtunition. Tango Show afterwards (not sure I'll go...)
Saturday: Fly to London. See NIS.
Sunday: SEE LIRA!!!!!!!!!!!
Monday: Head to Spain.
Hope the weather's better when I get there. It's raining here...and I've left my brolly at home...
The CR still refuses to admit that Massey University does not give degrees on the back of a Cornflakes box. They've turned down (don't recognise) my Bachelors and Masters (which were the initial degrees we sent them) and have said that I did not attend the correct courses to be considered to have the degrees. (not much point in sending the PhD then) Consequently, I'm still employed as a part-time-administrative assistant. Am going to have to be particularly beseeching when meeting the Director of the Institute on Tuesday to ask him to make an exception for me, and all those who follow me through the EPIET program in the CR.
I love this country. The smallest things are made impressively Herculean - getting change (coins) from a 100Kc note (20Kc coins) took me 10mins and three queues on Wednesday.
I have to take my suitcase back to the shop to get repaired, and I'm absolutely DREADING it. *sigh* |
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