My goal is to have as many people from as many countries in the world wear my kitty glasses in a photo. This is my original idea. All photos belong to me and are not allowed to be used in any sort of media unless approved by me. copyright worldwidekittyglassesproject.
The day after my birthday was a public holiday and we decided to go for a nice walk. Unfortunately, the weather was not as good as the day before. It was quite chilly and I had to go back to wearing my winter jacket. It was nice to walk in a different part of Praha. We got to see some of the animals that were at the "zoo". Afterwards we decided to check out one of the Praha castle gardens because they were open to the public for the weekend. It was nice to see the castle from a different view.
A week before my birthday I FINALLY received the Christmas card my parents sent me. I really hope they didn't send me a birthday card because if they did I will probably get it in summer. This is the second year in a row that I had my birthday during covid restrictions. Last year it was really unknown and people were afraid to really leave their homes. This year people have been getting used to it being around. Once again I worked on my birthday. The weather was ABSOLUTELY beautiful two days before my birthday and on my birthday (last year it snowed a day before my birthday). I walked through the forest to get to class and I was surprised with flowers and a card. The next students really surprised me and made cupcakes that even had a candle for me to blow out. It was really sweet and I didn't expect it. They sang happy birthday, gave me a card, handmade Easter decorations and Easter cookies to take home. In the evening my boyfriend cooked me dinner, made dessert and gave me a box of chocolates that had a personalized piece. It was a nice birthday.
My boyfriend and I were walking around Old Town square and I happen to see a poster advertising a vaccine cake, at cafe Cerna Madona. They were sold out when I looked at the display, so I asked a waiter if they had anymore cakes. He told me that they would get more cakes in 10 minutes. We decided to wait those ten minutes and its a good thing we did because more people came to wait for the cakes. I was happy to get my vaccine. It might not do everything a normal vaccine would do, but it didn't hurt and it made me feel better :) It was a delicious cake and had a dropper filled with gin. Here in CZ vaccines are not easy to come by. They are really only vaccinated the elderly and people with health problems. I think my best chance to get the vaccine would be to go back to USA to get one. In Czech Republic they are known for black humor as seen with this vaccine cake (which you can get a form stating you received a vaccine) and they also have a Covid cake. During these difficult times sometimes humor is the best medicine.
On March 3rd I happened to be randomly looking at articles my phone had recommended me. I came across an article stating that Yusaku Maezawa, a Japanese Billionaire, was looking for 8 crew members on his mission to the moon. I remember a couple of years ago I heard he was looking for a life partner to join him. I had no idea that he changed the concept of the trip and was inviting artists from all over the world to join him. I couldn't believe what I was reading. I knew straight away that I needed to register. I have been working on my blog for over eight years and have looked through my glasses on all the continents on Earth. I need to be able to look through them in space and experience the view of the Earth rise while wearing the glasses. They have been on over 10,000 different people from all walks of life. I have been able to meet so many amazing people because of them. They give me an opportunity to talk to people about the project and bring people together. One memorable experience was the time I met professional Ozeki Sumo Wrestler Tochinoshin. I recognized him at a salsa club and when he left, I ran after him. I asked him what language he preferred me to speak to him, English or Japanese and he told me Japanese. I explained to him about my blog and asked if he could wear the glasses, he politely refused two times. Then I asked him where he was from, he said Georgia (the country). Luck may it be, I actually lived in Georgia and learned a bit of Georgian. So I spoke to him in a bit of Georgian and IMMEDIATELY he took the glasses from me and put them on for me to take his photo. It showed me that if you have the power to connect with someone in their language you can have an instant connection. His whole demeanor changed and it was like we were friends. Connecting with people is so important and I believe that I have been able to do that everywhere I have lived: USA, South Africa, South Korea, Japan, Georgia, Australia, Chile, and Czech Republic. I have a lot of students that I would love to inspire and show them that anything is possible. Sometimes people assume that my father moved around a lot when I was a child in order for me to live in so many places. Nope. I made the decision as an adult to go out and do it. (But of course it helped that my parents helped me with my Czech citizenship and encouraged me to do what I want as long as I could financially support myself) I wanted to live on all the livable continents, did it. I wanted to visit all the continents, did it. I wanted to visit 100 countries, did it. Now I would LOVE LOVE LOVE to go to the moon, LET'S DO THIS!!!
I came across a post of a walk someone did in Praha 14 and decided that I should try it on Saturday. The person took the train there and metro back. We decided to change up the order of the walk. We took the metro to Rajska Zahrada and walked to the lookout tower. Then we had a nice walk in nature that included a boardwalk area. Next we walked through a nice park that had a random cat castle that had a slide as its tongue. It was around lunch time so we decided to check out the local brewery to see if they had food. We ordered dark beer and really nice food. The place has some great barbeque choices. The meat was really good. We took the train from Dolni Pocernice back to the center of Praha. Then we went to a cukrana that was next to Nase Maso. The sweets we got were really good. On Sunday morning we went to a great lookout point in Praha 4, Branicke Skaly. There were a lot of stairs that we had to go up for the view, but it was worth it. Then for lunch we tried an Italian bistro at Andel. The set menu included soup, main and dessert for 185czk. The food was great. Since we can't really go anywhere we have decided to try new food places and go to areas of Praha we haven't been to yet and so far we have been pleasantly surprised every time!
