Prague walk with roommate Sophie. Photos.

Recent photo reports:

• Day-of-moving-out-from-Hadouvka-to-Chodov-office
• Back-to-Prague-week-end 1st week-end after California
• Laid back Friday with friends Prague-Fri-July-16th
• Prague-walk-with-roommate-Sophie

I was happy to receive a reply to my blog post about San Francisco from my friend Ayumu since studying in Western Kentucky University, USA in 2000/01. He mentioned that he has recently been to San Francisco with hie wonderful wife Megmi in March and that they really enjoyed the time, seeing very beautiful city. They really loved it. Now Ayumi enjoying his work in Japan. He is in charge of selling YAMAHA outboard engines in South East Asian Countries, such as Indonesia and Malaysia.

That must be fun, sailor!!! I guess when the time comes... I would have to order from you a nice engine for a white yacht.

On the other photo - Fumio (also our JA friend we spent time together at WKU), Ayumu, Megmi.

My schoolmate of Lyceum "Intellect" (Kyiv, at school N 21) Andrew Semenov has sent me a link to his photos from the Pripyat Festival (near Chernobyl).

July 7th to 19th I have been spending in San Francisco Bay area. Was here on the business trip working and meeting people at the headquarters of my company. It was a lot of meetings I had to go through, had to meet about 20 different people. Also few colleagues took care of me well and took me for a few nice off work exploration events. Among others:

• Exploring streets of San Francisco and San Francisco museum of modern arts for exhibit of sculptures works by Matisse
  
• A dog walk in recreation park
• Filoli - residence, trees and rose garden
  
• Santana Row cool district and a French restaurant
• The Crucible's Fire Arts Festival
  
• Russian Disco event at Avalon club
• Pacific Ocean by Santa Cruz, wharf area with nice Italian restaurant
• Solitude walk and dinner in the restricted recreation area of Pacific Ocean bay area
  

Also I had a chance to visit US friend Dina and her dad in UC Davis.

Here is photo report.

Today I got a few photos from my comrade Denis (and Valik, 1st on the left), who were probably been to Odessa beaches recently.

On June together with my colleague visiting from US we have visited an amazing performances of William Shakespeare at the Prague Castle. We have seen the "Storm" (Boure)

http://praha.muzejninoc.cz/ this year attracted thousands of people. I have invited about 8 people, but only 1 showed up. So we spend the museum night with my colleague Tomas. Photos are here.

We did the following program:

18:30 Meeting by the exit from the M Vysehrad

19:00-19:30
The Vyšehrad Casemates and the Subterranean Hall "Gorlice" now home to
6 original statues from Charles Bridge. 20 min down to catacombs. Need
sweater and lighter.
http://praha.muzejninoc.cz/clanek.php?id=2&objekt=23

19:30-20:00 going by metro to Staromestska.

20:00-20:30
Umelecko Prumyslovy Museum back garden, Jazz Concert
http://muzejninoc-cz-praha.cattani.netservis.cz/clanek.php?id=5&ida=90

20:45-21:30
Rudolfinium, Antonín Dvořák, Symphony No 9 in E minor "From the New World"
http://muzejninoc-cz-praha.cattani.netservis.cz/clanek.php?id=5&ida=92

21:45-22:15
Charles Bridge Museum, Midevel carnaval and Photos exhibit
http://praha.muzejninoc.cz/clanek.php?id=2&l=en&ida=&inst=&objekt=47&linka=&stanice=

22:30 - 23:30
Jewish museum - Guided tour - History of the Jews in Bohemia and
Moravia I. – From the First Settlements to the Beginning of
Emancipation.
Meeting point: in exposition
http://praha.muzejninoc.cz/clanek.php?id=2&inst=6

00:00– 00.30
Jazz Before Midnight at Czech Museum of Music
http://muzejninoc-cz-praha.cattani.netservis.cz/clanek.php?id=5&ida=101

Encore une fois - Equador!
DJ Sash in Prague. I wanted to hear his music but was not sure if going pary in the middle of the week is that of a good idea. But when I learnd that I can get in for 7USD I did not hesitated and joined the party at MischMasch .
Je regarde le disc jockey!!!

On Saturday went on rafting trip by Vltava river from Vyssy Brod to Cesky Krumlov with friends Gerald and Nick and Elsa + 10 more French people. We did not get a change to speak much to French people and Elsa since we were going the fastest. I would recomend you try this sport one day. Cool feelings in your mind and body after 8 hours on the water. You may find all the info at: http://www.ingetour.cz/boat-rental-canoes-rafts/general/basic-information
We were afraid of our camers getting wet so NO Photoes for today.

This week I'm volunteering for the international theater festival Fringe (PragueFringe.cz) .
The concepts and events are unbelivably cool, as you may find out from some photos. So many happenings in one week!!! You can enjoy one great performance after another. My personal hit parade of the shows:

1. Velvet Scratch
2. The Friends of Jack Kairo
3. Stephen Frost Impro Allstars
4. A play on two chairs
5. Troubadour
6. Blow This Popsicle stand

The weekend of May 24-28 my Dutch friends Pieter (wich whom we have been rommates for 3 months in Ostrava during the AIESEC traineeship) and George (his friend) from Rotterdam has visited Prague and I hosted them. We aslo had a farewel party for Elsa on Friday (she will come back to France after a year of ERASMUS studies here in Prague). Photoes here.

My dear friend Deniska (we have studied in university together for 5 years) jast sent me few photoes (top right - amigos Denis and Nastja, buttom - Nastja's black cat) from his reunion with school mates. Can you imagine it that we have graduated from school 10 years ago and from university 5 years ago?

Been to a great and fantastic ballet yesterday "Solo pro Tri". Modern choreography theatre inspired by the lives and songs of three singing poets of the 1960s and 1970s French - Jacques Brel, Russian - Vladimir Vysotsky and Czech - Karel Kryl.

Photoes from last week-end as Kirsten was visiting from Germany and Albert from Canada. What a reunion of ex-AIESEC trainees from Ostrava in Prague!!!

Ura!!! My cousin Zephyralka (known by parents as Lida) has sent me her photoes from adventures in Canada, where she is visiting her bro and my cousin MAX and his pretty Katerina...

My colleague Martin has just came back from his 2 weeks vocations in Cuba. Fantastic views and colors!!! Photoes here.

I have came back from 10 fantastic days of visit my home in Ukraine - Kyiv. On the way we had a great visit in Lviv with my sister, then we went to visit our grandparents in Lutsk, and finally came back to Kyiv. Of caurse most of the time I have spent with mam, dad, sis and grandma, but I have met most of my friends.

I would say it was defenetely the best home coming event for last 4 years. I'm all so happy and now I'm looking forward to my future with a dream of come back to Kyiv some day, have own business there, own property, few fast cars and the most important - family with kids.

As for now I'm just homesick, but looking at all those moments make me smile and fell happy. You can check the photo report from the trip by yourself.

Kostya sent me photoes from this weekend. He celebrated WW2 Victory Day with colleagues at his garden. I wish I could join the celebration...but I was having a greatest fun in Kyiv. Well we would do another "shashlyky picnic" sometime this summer.

I'm on the few vocation days in Kyiv now. I have met with Natashia and Sasha, cool friends as we all have started our careers at KP Publications. I have just recieved a link to their online photo gallery. I hope they will come to see me in Prague sometime this year.