On Being a Beginner

I decided instead of writing day-to-day, I needed to pause, step back, and look at how the experience as a whole is changing me.

Cooler Than Oktoberfest

Žatec, Czech Republic is home to one of the largest, if not the largest, exporters of hops worldwide. Every fall, the town of 19,000 celebrates with the Žatec Hops and Beer Festival.

REI Saves the Day, Peanut Butter as a Luxury Item, and How to Use Your Words

Dobrý den!

Whitney like Houston, Weaver like Sigourney

This week kicked off the beginning of my official Fulbright grant to Czech Republic. For the next ten months, I’ll be living in Hejnice (Northern Bohemia) teaching at a Secondary School focused on agricultural careers.

To Adventure!

“And I asked myself about the present: How wide it was, how deep it was, how much of it was mine to keep.”