Thoughts on It All

I am not sure I can say enough positive things about her. She has done more in a short time to make Czech seem like a good place than anyone else. We have had so little time together, but maybe so little time is all you get some times. She certainly came out of nowhere at a time where everything seemed a reason to leave. None of those things have changed; maybe they seem smaller when she was around.

Understanding and seeming confident are not always separable. We did not speak the same language. She studied English and I studied Czech. Yeah, I know, “why would you study Czech?” For the record, that was one of her first questions to me. Maybe trying to communicate is more important than knowing all of the words. Learning each other’s language really has been a point of pride and commonality. It never separated us. Not that misunderstandings did not occur. They just were not a big deal because we were trying to communicate not just talk.