Friday, June 29, 2007

on my way to Baile Átha Cliath

After spending three weeks in Belfast, It's now time to get busy earning again!
I'm going to be based in Sutton, North dublin for the next seven weeks... I'll be 'edutaining' a group of French kids...
Some terrible sins I must have committed in my previous life!

The last few weeks have been really full on but I'm leaving today feeling that I got to touch base with some wonderful people here! Although the weather's been pretty nasty, there's a lot of warmth in relationships...
and what do I like most but that feeling?!

Now, as to what's going to happen once the summer's over... it does look like Barry and I will be heading back to Brno, for another year of English Language teaching...
It's not a matter of not having tried, but finding a job other than a call centre position is very difficult around this part of the world...

That actually reminds me of an article I read about the 'New Northern Irish economy' some time ago, where the headline read 'Northern Ireland's losing its graduates'...
there's a point there... Being qualified is far from being a guarantee that a job will follow! More and more people find themseleves having to move to get the job they're qualified to do.. it's a pity (to je skoda!) but that's the way it is at present.. and fingers crossed, things will turn around at some point and we will all live happy everafter... well, here's to hope anyway!

Anyway, I might as well believe that going back for another year abroad's the best thing right now...
There is something to be said for genuine positivity and hope! If being a dark realist prepares one for the worst, being confident that things are going to be ok and looking at the positive before the negative may just prepare one to a less traumatic life.....

oh man, can't beat simple pleasures!!

peace and happiness to you all


tree trunk- Mikulov- on a sunny day... earthy goodness!!

Wednesday, June 06, 2007

brno... belfast


Alright, so.. the bags are packed, the shoulders are about ready to be hurting over the next couple of days..
the travel nervousness's kicked in too...
butterflies in the stomach...

I'll be travelling to Prague tomorrow morning with mr Cullen.. one idle afternoon and evening to be spent there, before flying to sunny Belfast on Friday morning..

looking forward to it? yeah, sure..
a bit at a loss with emotions, the leaving and arriving ones..? oh, yeah.. oh yeah!!

surf the wave and go with the flow...
live and let live... se laisser vivre...
accept that the future's got a lot in store that I can't control...
(oh, damn it... that i find so frustrating!!)

after all, the best things that have ever happened in my life were totally random and certainly were out of my control...
just as my favourite photographs were not staged, but captured a moment that the photographer didn't provoke...
let live...
and snap!!

to all of you people
to the dreams.. NA SNI!!!!!!!!!!! (cesky)