Thursday, September 4, 2008

So Many...

...things I wanted to write about have happened. I don't even know where to start.

So perhaps chronologically. On the 5. of August, me and my family left for Manchester. Our holiday finally started. From the start to the end, I created the holiday for myself. Nobody had the time or energy to talk to me about what their idea of the 14 days we were to spend in Northern England and Southern Scotland. Except for a two or three shots in the dark, like "I wanna go for a hike in Scotland" or "I want to see Blackstone Edge Roman Road". So I searched, googled, read, researched and created a daily plan which consisted of many churches, abbeys, priories and some castles. Oh, and we went for some hikes (Except for dad, of course He always has too much work to do such worthless things like hiking. I understand.) As for the less factual side, I am afraid I didn't bring home any kind of adventure. I came, I saw, I took pictures, I left. On the other hand, that seems like the perfect holiday for our family, as far as I understand my dad, mom and brother. Dad was a bit upset, but he wouldn't take any holiday at all, I guess. We came back on the 18.

Three days after that, my last summer holiday activity started. Me and a couple of my scout friends (scout troop EXIT) decided to take a bike ride from Praha to Bratislava. It turned there was only four of us, and the number actually oscillated between four and five throughout the trip. We had a really good time (rubbishing the Moravians, basically :-D). Bratislava is not a very beautiful city. If you ever get there, make sure you set foot in the "Petrzalka" quarter if and only if you want to see where communists stored people. Otherwise, stay in the old town. And you might want to visit Devin, a nice old castle on a hill above the Donau and Morava rivers.

As soon as I got enough rest after the 430 km of cycling (not that much, considering it took us a week to get there), school started. Speaking for myself, I could've had that postponed at least a little bit.
But anyway. We got new teachers for maths, physics, religion, Latin and sport (I will see the latter one tomorrow for the first time). The religion teacher, Marek Orko Vacha, is the best one. He is actually a biology teacher as well. He also wrote some very good books(Btw thin and very readable). He knows his job, is extremely intelligent and I hope we will learn a lot of what he can teach us. The Latin teacher is a bit, you know, strange. He has probably studied a lot. His behavior is very unusual, though it does not irritate me (yet). Then the math teacher. He looks a bit like the Rumcajs character from a set of Czech fairy tales. As opposed to the other two, he didn' look self-assured at all. But I hope he will snap out and give us the most he can.

So that was all. If you got this far, It means you have quite a lot of time to waste. This wasn't particularly interesting, was it. But I just needed to write it down.

Cyal8r