i've been out of it for awhile. or, at least, out of this blog.
so, as i said before:
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i went to italy. we started in 24th place. we ended in 25th place.
of note:
i almost had a completed 'greatest', which entails jumping from inbounds, grabbing the disc and tossing it back inbounds before you hit the ground. i threw it right to dave, who was unprepared and it hit him in the chest before falling to the ground.
the team that beat us so that we could not compete for 17th place ended up in 31st place. which means that after knocking us out of contention for 17th place (of which we were then only able to make it to 25th place maximum), the team (ZUF, from Zurich) lost all of their games except the last one. whereas, we went on to win every game after we lost to them.
that was paganello.
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czech easter:
the monday following easter sunday is the larger holiday. the festivities entail men walking around with switches and hitting women (lightly) on the ass. the woman then must either give the man an egg or give him a shot of alcohol. this is before noon, however. after noon, the woman throws a glass of water in his face if he hits her. both years that i've lived here, i have unfortunately (yet fortunately) been in italy during easter, but rumor has it that this tradition has also been largely relegated to villages and is not very common in Prague.
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envy.
every czech student i has has explained a typical czech personality: envy. they have a saying which goes along the lines of this:
if your neighbor has an excellent dog and you don't, you hope it dies.
that's a rough approximation, since my word stretching powers feel pretty limited at the moment.
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northwest airlines is having a sale on transatlantic airfare. ya'll should look into it!
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i'm going to vienna this weekend to compete in yet another tournament.
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spring has sprung and i haven't touched my winter coat in over a week! i can't even wear a very light winter hat anymore because it's just too nice out.
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i know i teased you by saying that i'm writing a business plan. but alas, i cannot explain it except in person until it is fully written and protected.
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which brings me to my future plans. as they're being ironed out, it looks as such: teach english until the end of June. travel around europe in july and august. stay in prague and devote myself fully to writing my business plan until late october, early november. from there i will either A) do charity work for one or two months, probably in south america and then move to california to find investors and advertizing for my business, or B) move directly to california to find investors and advertizing for my business.
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lastly, something for my left friends...
Posted by iain at April 8, 2005 03:40 PM