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- Dobre rano, it's Abby Graves
saying good morning from the Czech Republic.
And I'll be taking you with me today
as an English teach around Prague.
Just a little bit about me,
I am a 23-year old American from Minnesota
and I have been living and working in Prague
since August 2017.
So it's time for me to go to work at my preschool
and I'll fill you in a little bit more about that
as we go but I gotta get goin'.
Just a little more about me
while I's standing here waiting for the bus.
I moved here in August and I took the TEFL course here
and I moved here with a friend, so that was really fun
and we've been living here ever since.
And the course was really great.
The course here was through the Language House
and it was super challenging but I learned a lot
and the best part about the course is just the community
and the class that you have.
A lot of my class stayed here in Prague
and we hang out all the time and it's really...
One of the really great parts of living abroad
is getting to try new things
and I experience that even through my work.
So for the first four months I was working here
I worked at an after-school program
and doing private lessons and running around.
While that works for a lot of people
and I have friends who do that and love it,
it just wasn't really for me.
I needed a little more consistency.
So I decided to work at a preschool full-time.
So that's where I'm going today
and you'll get to see it in just...
So now I'm on the final stretch of my journey to work.
It takes me about an hour to get to work
and I take the bus, and I take the Metro,
sometimes I take the tram; it's quite the process.
The preschool that I work at is called Domov Czech
and that means "small house"
and you'll see it is a small house.
But it's out on the edge of Prague
where there's lots of parks and trees for the kids
and we take them outside a lot so they can be outside.
I teach in the monkeys' classroom
and they are mostly five and six
and you'll see maybe that they have a wide range of English.
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So the workday is done but I'm back on the bus
and tonight I'm traveling to one my private lessons
that I have on the side.
I do a few a week just to have
a little extra spending money.
- [Girl] Flower.
Uh, yellow, or what to say?
- [Abby] Spiderweb.
- [Girl] Spider
So now I'm finished with my lesson
and normally I would probably just head home
but tonight I thought I would show you guys
something really cool and I'm meeting a friend in Old Town
to go to the Easter Markets.
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Yum!
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Okay, so it's been a pretty long day for me
but before I sign off for the night
I just wanted to share a few more things.
Living abroad has just really taught me how to do things
I never thought I could do, handle tough situations
and really just, it feels natural and normal now
to do those things.
One of the hardest parts for me
is always living with a language barrier
at like the Post Office and signing up for things.
But it really hasn't been that big of an issue
and I find myself freaking out
more than I need to about those.
And being abroad has just showed me how much there is
to see in the world and has really given me a taste
for wanting to travel and see as much as I possibly can
and being able to work and teach while doing it
has been really fun.
I just graduated in May 2017 from Minot State...
Go Beavers!
with a degree in elementary education.
So I really wanted to come here and work with kids
and getting to work at the preschool has been so fun for me.
So one last thing is just that I highly recommend moving
and living abroad for a while.
It just stretches you and forces you to grow
in so many new and challenging ways
but it's so fun and so rewarding in the end.
Now it's time for me to go to bed
and so I have to say goodnight
but I hope this inspires someone to want to move
to the Czech Republic and come to Prague and teach English.
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