WorldWideKittyGlassesProject : May 2019

Friday, May 24, 2019

Asian Festival (Praha, CZ)

Two nights ago my friend's friend needed help preparing food she was making for the Asian Festival. I had no idea that there was an Asian Festival happening on Thursday. We helped her friend prepare her dishes and she had a LOT to do. I wasn't able to help out for that long because I needed to head back to the village, but nonetheless I did what I could. The next day I went to check out the festival. Unfortunately I didn't have much time to check out the festival, but the Cooking Club Prague booth was awesome. They had lots of great food and everyone was so nice. I will definitely try to make it to their next event.

Cooking Club Prague

Dominican Republic

Indonesia

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Ukraine

Thursday, May 23, 2019

I am Remarkable Workshop (Google, Praha CZ)

My friend invited me to a workshop she found while browsing for events in Praha. The "I Am Remarkable" workshop had the aim to "1. Improve the motivation and self-promotion skills of women and underrepresented groups 2. Change social perceptions and refresh the conversation around self-promotion". I feel that women definitely need a bit of a push to self-promote so that is why I decided to join the event. There was a nice group of women who joined the event and the presenters did a great job leading the workshop and discussions. It was really nice to hear everyone's experience and perspective on things. Everyone is remarkable in their own way and at times we need to remind ourselves just how remarkable we are. Thanks to everyone who participated in my blog. If I wrote down the wrong nationality for you, please tell me. Unfortunately some of the photos weren't as focused as I would want them to be. It was a great event and hopefully we will some how meet again in the future!

intro to the workshop

follow up exercises

the lovely group of ladies

cropped without the backpack...

Spain

Colombia

Albania

Czech Republic 9525

Czech Republic

Slovakia

France 9530

Czech Republic

Spain

Czech Republic 9535

Slovakia

Czech Republic

Google office

Monday, May 20, 2019

Trash Hero Praha

The locations that Trash Hero Praha have chosen lately have been quite far for me to go to. This location was far as well, but I was already in Praha because I volunteered the day before for the Open House event. The weather was really nice, but I felt that this clean up was a bit separated. I preferred the other two clean ups I have been to because it felt more of a group thing and it was a bit more social. However, it could have been my fault that I wasn't with the majority of the group. I found myself in an area by myself and dragging a huge, heavy cardboard thing back to the main area and was trying to get the attention of the organizer who was just standing there. He finally helped me when I was less than 20 seconds away, that was a bit disappointing. Since I didn't want to drag huge heavy trash by myself to the main area, I decided to go to an area that was a bit closer to the main point and ended up picking at least 70kg of glass by myself. I left the bags on the path because that is what someone else told me to do. In the end, not sure if that was supposed to be done, but I was not going to drag the super heavy bags back to the main area without help. I had busted my butt already and didn't get too much help. It was just a bit confusing on where we should all go because it was so spread out in the area. I'm hoping that the next event I go to will be a bit more fun.

trying to figure out where we should all go with different maps of the area

the trash we picked up

the group

Czech Republic 9520

Czech Republic

Monthly Potluck (Praha, CZ)

I am part of a group that does Monthly potlucks and it was that time of month again. We had lots of lovely food and I finally got properly educated about what exactly Eurovision is. It was probably the first and last time that I watched the entire Eurovision final. Madonna was such a disappointment!! We all couldn't believe how badly she sung!! It was interesting to see how the whole competition worked and how crazy the system is. We all thought Sweden was going to win and then suddenly The Netherlands ended up winning. It was a fun night with lovely ladies. Thanks to the host for being so hospitable!!

the group

Poland

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Open House Praha

I found a volunteer opportunity in Prague to help with their Open House. Open House Prague happens once a year where buildings that are not normally open to the public are open for one weekend. I thought I would be able to learn more about some interesting buildings and really be able to help out with the event. I was put to work at the CETIN building. The thing is that the CETIN company already had a whole thing set up in front of their building and didn't really need us too much. It was nice though because without this event I would have never been to the building and never have been able to go inside. It was really interesting to see inside the building and work with some nice people. The volunteers who were working at the building decided that we should take turns going on the tour. During my time slot I invited other couchsurfers to go with me. One person joined. It was a long day, but thankfully others were at the building with me and there was interesting stuff going on. It was a nice day.