Czechmatediary

Help Antonia - Slovak mom living in the US and battling cancer/ Pomozte Antonii - Slovenske mamince zijici v Americe, ktera zapasi s rakovinou

Tanja — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 18:43:24 +0000

Antonia is a 32-year-old mom of 16-month-old triplets, currently living in the state of Virginia. She was born and raised in Slovakia and attended Trnava University, like probably a handful of my other Slovak readers here. Antonia is a super-woman. Non only does she manage to juggle being a mom of triplet babies but she [...]

2010 Olympic games were the most successful ever for the Czech Republic/OH 2010 byly pro Cechy zatim ty nejuspesnejsi

Tanja — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 05:11:10 +0000

Winning 6 medals - it could not get any better for the Czechs! Let’s do a recap: Martina Sablikova (speed skater) won 2 (!!) gold medals, and one bronze medal Lukas Bauer (cross country skier) won 1 bronze medal Sarka Zahrobska (downwill skier) won 1 bronze medal Sablikova, now the most successful Czech winter Olympic game competitor ever, is [...]

To puke or not to puke? / Zvracet nebo ne?

Tanja — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 05:31:31 +0000

I am happy to announce that we are expecting yet Czech-American baby. The thing is that since I am in my early stages of pregnancy I don’t feel so good - in fact I feel like I want to throw up all the time - which greatly effects my writing abilities. I am sorry to [...]

‘Communism is dead! Czech people, you don’t have to eat like a communist’ / Komunismus je po smrti! Cesi, uz nemusite jist jako za komousu’

Tanja — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 06:15:56 +0000

Karen is one of my frequent commentators, a very pleasant American lady who currently lives in Prague. She has a blog called The Empty Nest Expat and writes bunch of interesting articles about her observations. One of her recent posts is contemplating about the Czech - still rather unhealthy - cuisine. Read her thoughts in [...]

Two Czechs are to conquer frozen lake Baikal / Dva cesi planuji zdolat zamrzle jezero Bajkal

Tanja — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 05:37:16 +0000

Today left Prague an important travel expedition called the Bargans Bajkal 2010. It consists of 2 extra brave men - Vaclav Sura and Petr Blazek, who are to cross the Siberian Baikal lake on foot, by so-called unsupported style. All of their belongings (food included) will be pulled by those two man on sledges. The [...]

Rice art: who can beat that? / Ryzove umeni: kdo ho muze prekonat?

Tanja — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 05:05:39 +0000

The Czech Republic’s tourist spot is Prague; Slovakia has the magnificent Tatras; China has the Great Wall; Japan has the Mount Fuji and…what else? How about these images of a truly astonishing Rice-paddy art that my friend sent me? ‘The Japanese artists create the murals by planting little purple and yellow-leafed Kodaimai rice along [...]

Sablikova is enjoying her victory/ Sablikova si uziva sveho vitezstvi

Tanja — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 22:08:34 +0000

Not long after the Olympic games began the Czechs have already won their first gold medal. The 22-year-old speed skater, Martina Sablikova, conquered a 3,000-meter long race like it was a piece of cake. But the real piece of cake was waiting for her at the Czech House in Vancouver, fashionably shaped as an ice-skating [...]

‘It must be your genes’ / ‘Podekujte vasim genum’

Tanja — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 04:40:40 +0000

I went to get a facial and a massage which my dear hubby bought for my 30th birthday. The massage always turns out to be great; even the facial is always relaxing, but I tell you, the beginnings are rough - at least for me. As soon as I assume your position on the ‘facial [...]

What would you like to see more of on Czechmate Diary?/ O cem byste na Czechmate Diary radi cetli nejvice?

Tanja — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 17:06:00 +0000

Hi Everyone, it’s time for self-criticism ;0) What would you like to see more of on these pages? Which category should dominate? Or would you like to ad a new category to Czechmate Diary? I am open to your suggestions! Vote in the poll bellow and if you don’t find your answer, comment. CZ: Ahoj, vytvorila jsem anketu, [...]

First Czech house arrest ever / Prvni oficialni pripad domaciho vezeni

Tanja — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 04:38:49 +0000

A house-arrest sentence is a very new thing in the Czech Republic. It used to be that you go to jail or you don’t go to jail and house arrest was left for the disobedient kids. Petr Boruvka informs us about the very first felon who was given such an ‘awful’ punishment. Read about him [...]