Happy New Year!
I hope you all had a wonderful holiday season! I was sick for the entire two weeks but I had a great Christmas. I had a traditional Czech Christmas on Christmas Eve at my principal's house. It was quite nice although I was there much longer than I planned to be. And of course we had slivovice to drink!

Christmas day found me in Prague for dinner with other ESI teachers. It was nice to be with Americans and to not worry if I was completely understood. We had a small gift exchange and watched movies. Then I was off for Paris. Paris is always wonderful, it's my favorite place in the whole world. It was nice to be able to understand people and have them understand me for a change. Even though me French is terrible it 100 times better than my Czech.

We spent New Years at Brian's flat in Sokolov. We watched movies and MTV and just had a relaxing time. It has been snowing for the last three days and we still have snow from two weeks ago. I hope I don't freeze to death. It is really cold now. It is amazing how much colder 20 feels than 30. And this girl from Texas is just not used to all of the snow! It is pretty but.....

Hope y'all have a great 2004. I know this week we will all be getting back into the swing of things. Tell me about your holidays. I would really like to hear about it!

Blessings,
Jessica