Family Photo Archive Workshop

A friend of mine invited me to a photo workshop she was having at the Czech Taiwanese Association.  It was very fitting for me to join since my kitty glasses were bought in Taipei Taiwan 14 years ago and I came up with the idea of the blog in the Czech Republic!! My friend even made a Taiwanese pork dish that we could try.  It was delicious!  The hospitality was amazing!  Plus the location of the association was great!  The workshop was informative and gave lots of great ideas on what we can do with our thousands of photos.  I "won" third place with the 3rd most amount of photos taken in a year.  We then shared a photo from our phones that we liked and explained it to the group.  It was a really nice event and I appreciate being invited to it.  Thanks!

                                                        lots of delicious things to munch on

                                                                my yummy plate

                                                            Germany 10,700

                                                                    Taiwan

                                                                        Japan

                                                            Czech Republic 

                                                                Czech Republic  10,704

                                                              summer gifts from T-mobile

                                                                    my new water bottle

Japanese Cooking Class 2

I held another Japanese cooking class because the first one I had in November filled up rather quickly and others asked me to do a repeat of the class. Unfortunately,  the class happened to be on the hottest day in history in the Czech Republic.  I couldn't cancel because I had 12 people relying on me and I had already bought all the ingredients.  Luckily, everyone who signed up were troopers and didn't let the heat defeat them.  We were all melting, but I showed them a hack on how to cool down a bit. Something my uncle in Japan would do because summers in Japan can get quite hot and humid.  Luckily the class didn't require heat sources to be on that long.  Most of the time participants were chopping ingredients and rolling the hosomaki.  We made so many rolls!  The edamame turned out great and so did the cucumber salad and miso soup.  The matcha cookies were a bit burnt, but everyone liked them because they said they were crispy and chewy.  I am very happy that everyone was happy with the class and that we all survived the heat!  Thank you Ariel for taking photos!

                                                                Lithuania  10,697

                                                                Lithuania

                                                                Romania  10,699

                                                       thats not even all of the rolls!

Polanka, Trebic

We decided to go to Trebic to escape the heat in the city and for Amaya to see her grandparents.  We tried to make sure she was in a pool every day that we were there.  First she got to enjoy an inflatable pool in the backyard.  Then on Friday, we went to Polanka.  It is a great pool center that had several different pools for different age groups.  It was wonderful that there was an area just for babies.  Amaya really loved it.  Leos and I even went on the water slide.  It was a great way to beat the heat and entrance for adults was just 150czk.  Much better than the prices in Prague. On Saturday, we went to Leos's sister's house and we got to enjoy their salt water pool.  It was so nice and refreshing.  Sunday morning before we left, we had Amaya in the inflatable pool again.  She really is a water baby and truly enjoyed her time in Trebic. 

                                                        nice and refreshing