Czechmatediary

How to get a Czech girl to like you / Jak na to, aby se do vas ceska holka zamilovala

Tanja — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 04:59:30 +0000

Over the years I have gotten the notion that Czech/Slovak girls are desirable goods. The party boys would say something like “Czech girls are hot, dude!” Not only that we are ‘hot’ but we are also great wife material (OK, maybe I should get confirmation from my husband first): we are great cooks, we don’t [...]

The international film festival in Karlovy Vary has started/ Zacal Mezinarodni filmovy festival v Karlovych Varech

Tanja — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 04:59:55 +0000

Yesterday stared the 44th International Film Festival in Karlovy Vary. Among the most important guests this year are Milos Forman, a French celebrity film-maker Patrice Chereau, president Vaclav Klaus and others. The producers of the festival are a bit worried that thanks to the economic crisis the visitorship will be on the low side [...]

The real reason why so many Czechs left the country / Opravdovy duvod proc tolik cechu opustilo jejich rodnou zem

Tanja — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 04:59:03 +0000

I am starting to have a suspicion that many Czechs emigrated to the US because of their last name. These are just a few examples of Czech names that I have seen around town, here in the US, and they made me giggle: - James Zadek (Zadek = Behind) - Andrew Siska (Siska= pine cone but also [...]

Czech and Slovak events abroad: July 2009 / Ceske a Slovenske Akce v Cizine: Cervenec 2009

Tanja — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 04:59:28 +0000

Summer is here and if you are not going back to Czech or Slovakia and are practicing so-called ’stay-cation’, you need to get the Czech vibes from somewhere else in the country. Most of us are migrating back to our motherland this month so that is why the list is kind of short but not [...]

You can now text message to Czech and Slovakia for almost nothing!/ Muzete ted textovat do Cech a na Slovensko a to skoro za pakatel!

Tanja — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 04:59:10 +0000

My friend Iva just told me a big secret: did you know that if you have a T-mobile account and live in the US you can text message to Czech/Slovakia for $0.20 per message (both incoming and outgoing messages)? The bad news is that I don’t have a T-mobile account but I thought some of [...]

The current Miss Czech Slovak US speaks fluent Czech! / Nynejsi Miss Czech Slovak US mluvi plynne Cesky!

Tanja — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 04:59:35 +0000

A beautiful Sandy Ptak doesn’t just have a Czech herritage in her (hence her last name ‘Ptak’, meaning ‘bird’ in Czech) but she also won the Miss Czech Slovak US for the year 2008-2009. She has been enjoying her queen days very much but the time is running out for her as the new miss [...]

The Czechs finished their EU chairmanship…let’s party!!! / Cesi ukoncili sve predsednictvi v EU…a jde se parit!!

Tanja — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 04:59:44 +0000

Yesterday evening the Czechs finished their 6-month chairmanship to the European Union (the time sure flew by quickly!). The Czech government put on the last cultural event (in this case it was a party) out of the 700 other events that were held during their ‘reign’ over Europe. At first the party was supposed to [...]

S.O.S.!!! S.O.S.!!! / S.O.S.!!!S.O.S.!!!

Tanja — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 04:59:08 +0000

I was humming the Czech national anthem for myself the other day and I realized with terror that I DO NOT KNOW ALL OF THE WORDS ANYMORE!! How sad is that!!! What is strange though is that I can remember the Slovak national anthem word for word (I also have to say I have always [...]

Commie shoes are back! / Komunisticke botasky jsou zpatky!!

Tanja — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 04:59:03 +0000

Remember Botasky, the boring communist shoes that everyone would wear? They are back and they are popular!!! But don’t worry, they did go through quite the make-over, created by 2 young Czech art students, Jan Kloss and Jakub Koros. ‘Our school task was to make new sport shoes so we decided to make a new [...]

The worst Czech habit of all?? / Nejhorsi cesky zlozvyk??

Tanja — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 04:59:34 +0000

We all know that the Czechs have some bad habits; we don’t like to say the words ‘I love you’, we have some bad table manners such as licking of the plate and many of us like to smoke and drink…and not exercise on top of everything else. To add to our humility quest, the [...]