One of the great things about being in Europe is how I can indulge in theater and music without it being a very rare, very special occasion. Back home, I’ve watched wonderfully entertaining performances with family and friends (Avenue Q, Miss Saigon, Peter Pan, Spring Awakening, Taming of the Shrew, Fiddler on the Roof, to…
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“We must travel in the direction of our fear.” Before I left the Philippines, when the Czech Embassy in Manila was still being ambiguous about how long it would take my visa to be processed, I told myself that I needed to learn something. I wrote a list of things that I should do, such…
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I can freely admit that I think that Czech people are quite beautiful. At least thrice every week, I see a girl or a guy on the trams that could probably become models in the Philippines, just because they have the foreign features that Filipinos seem to covet (for example, matangos na ilong (umm, pointy…
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