It`s fun to be at the lecture with at least 200 other people and watch them. Our teacher is talking about monetary politics and it`s actually interesting topic, but to be honest, almost no one is listening.

I am looking around and I see majority of laptops on Facebook, couple others are playing solitaire and one is playing a game I don't know. It`s funny cause this lecture is 3 hours long and thats quite a long time. The teacher is not tracking the attendance so what is the point of all the students here?

Why are all the students here and not at the pub with friends, or at home studying or working or on the bike? That is something that I really can't understand. The time is rare, time is the only thing that you cannot buy, for anything and is also limited. Why do we waste it on stupid stuff, why aren`t we able to enjoy every moment and make every moment count?

I am not trying to say that I am good at this. That I don't know stuff like procrastination, laziness and wasting my time, but I think that I realize that problem, trying to do something about it. So what is it that you are struggling with? Is it too much TV, or too much time on Facebook, playing too much computer games? Or shopping the whole time on your computer, or just spending all the free time in the bed?

I think that all of us, have something that we are wasting our time at and I also believe that we don`t like it. SO why don't we try to do something about it? Why don't we start a challenge about saving 30 minutes a day, that we think we don't know yet for stuff that really matters? It can be a prayer time, it can be time with Bible, time with your family, spouse or just thinking about life. I know we can do it, its not too much, only 30 minutes, can we win? Lets try and let me know how is it going.

School time

The time is here, the time of sleepless nights and even vorse days. The time when we are trying to get the whole semester into our heads in just a couple of days. The time when the stress is up and emotions too.

I realized two things about my exams time.
First, I am getting fat, I am starting to have a really amazingly discusting rubber around my waist and that I need to start work out more often to get it gone before the comming bikiny time.
Second, I am not so nice to people around me, when I am stressed I can say stupid stuff that I am not thinking about.

So I am asking myself if the exams are really that important that we need to put in danger our relationships for them? Is it really worth it?

I dont think so, I dont think that an exam from economy can supply my girlfriend and test from marketing my best friend. SO my little advice is, take it easy, slow down a bit, pray about that and just be nicer to people around you. Its them who help you to get this life done well.

Nerashte

Last couple of months were really interesting. Much changed again in my life. I found an amazing girl that I can share my life with, that I can love and take care of. I started to be somehow happy in Prague, even I still miss many people here, but I am seeing is at a place where I live now and many others.

But the thing I want to share with you is the trip to Macedonia we did with YL last week. It was somehow a normal mission trip to a Albanian part of Macedonia, fully muslim, into the village called Nerashte close to Tetovo almost on the border with Kosovo.

It was fourteen of us, traveling 26 or so hours in three trains to the place, then for 5 days build a playground, paint one big wall and a big fence. And then go another 30 or so hours back. But it wasnt just that. It wasnt just building and making one elementary school nicer and better equipped.

It was a life changing experience for many kids there. Kids that are hated in the country that hates muslims, that hates Albanians because of the war they had few years ago. It was a absolutely new for them, that someone actually cared, someone spend the time with them, played soccer and football and let them be part of something bigger then just them. I could see it in almost every face, the happiness, joy and hope. Hope that world is not such a bad place, and that it doesnt need to be just mafia wars, or wars with Macedonians and poverty and no future. And to be honest? It changed my life too.

My eyes got opened about some stuff. Maybe what would I want to do in the future, that some of the problems I am dealing with arent really that important and that my life is not as bad as I sometimes think and that world is a better place then I thought.

Also we grew soooo close with the team, group of people who maybe saw each other couple times started to share their lifes with one another and share snacks, drinks, money, clothes, jokes and everything. It was a wonderful reminder how can a kingdom of God looks. People loving each other and helping each other and just live in some kind of unity and community.

I am really thankful I could have experienced that, it was like charging my batteries for the future days. I showed me again why I believe what I do and why I do what I do. Why I am a YL volunteer, why I want to get to know young people and maybe give them a new possibilities.

Its a wonderful world out there, out here, around us. And I love that I was a part of something so great.

First time

Don`t laugh at me, but it was my first time doing laundry here in Prague. Don`t take it wrong, I did laundry many times before, with my own machine or a machine of someone close to me. I only didn`t do it here in Prague, cause I wasn't here long enough to feel the need. But today I realized that I need some clean shirt for the ball I am going to today. It was kinda adventure, go through the crooked labyrinth of dorms underground, smelling amazing and not known smells and stuff like that. It also felt like real community. Sharing together, it just wasn't food like God was talking about, it was a washing machine sharing, with a group of about 500 people. Isn't that amazing? How close I can get to a people I have never seen in my life? And how far I can be to people I meet almost every day.

I am amazed how many people went through my life. They stayed for a little while, for longer time or they are still there. Some did hurt me, some made me happy, but all of them influenced me, some more and some less, but all did. I strongly believe God is working mostly with people and through people, he did put sooo many of them in my life, sooo many good figures and even few bad figures. He gave me heroes, he gave me people who loves me, people I can love. I am thankful for people, for love for friendship and for God.

Dreamer

I am helpless dreamer. I was since I was born. I remember when I was in kindergarden, how I was dreaming about bigger castles I can build, how I can live in them and stuff. The older I am getting, the more I am experiencing life and society, the bigger pressure is not to dream that much. Be more practical, or not to dream at all, cause you will get hurt.

I will never ever give up dreaming. I had dreams, some of them came true, some of them did not. But all of them were worth the try. I dream about different stuff then I used to, it`s less about toys and more about people and miracles. I am going after them less on my own and more with prayer on my lips, but I still dream. I actually live one of the dreams that no one could imagine can come true, not even me, but It did. Made me better child of God, better man, better dreamer.

So I beg you, don't stop dreaming, and STOP be afraid of getting hurt, just DREAM, LOVE, PRAY, thats all we need for life. Imagine, if everyone would do those stuff. Would be powered by the dreams, would love people around as God us told us, and Pray to Him for guidance, help and worship. World would b better place.

3 years

Almost exactly three years since the last post. Thats quite some time.

So much happened since then. I am still the same person, but I feel like I travelled millions of miles in my life. Living my college life in Prague, trying to serve God as good as I can, found home church for me and realizing where I am going and what I am doing.

It`s really funny how my life is always up and down, my emotions are jumping from the sky heights to the valleys plains. I love that I live a crazy busy life. Right now I am sick with cold, but cannot really rest cause two test are going on today, I should be studying and not writing here, and tomorrow I go with my YL teammate and friend Wendy to a ball of her girls. Right after that, ski instructor course is taking place in my life. Then Christmas.

Even the last month wash`t the most successful in many fields, it was one of the best months ever. Cause I had the privilege to pray about stuff, I would never ever imagine to pray about at the last post. Pray about love, about God showing me the way, God blessing the decisions I wanna make and people I want to love, praying for God healing people and me and so much more. Great how much happened since last, crazy where I am now since last, Thanks God he walked me through the forest of darkness to the field of light.

I don't want to sound too cheesy or anything, but last month was just a blessing. I felt really loved, I felt guided, I felt the good sense of challenge, to be a better man a better person so Pappa would be proud. And to be totally honest, not just him, but one really special person too.

Thanks God for putting my life in order, thank you for people around me and thank you that you are blessing what I am praying about.

Christmas

Hey guys, so it`s here, I am trying to write my first blog in English language, wow, it`s huge change, but be patient and forgive me my mistakes.

Christmas, 

It`s here, holiday of Santa Claus, red nose`s Rudolph, bush and gifts. Here more commercial then back home in Czech, but on the other hand more religious then ever before in my life. This X-mass will be probably the most different in my whole existence. In different (and sometimes strange country), with new people, with no mom ( I have Tammy but my mom is only one sorry). I will also share bush with my "siblings" for first time and don`t have potatoes salad ( I don`t really miss it :D). It`s gonna be great and happy and sad and full of mixed feelings in one time and I really looking forward this so please cross your fingers for me. 

New Year`s eve

It will be also strange. First time in five years I will celebrate with my family, and first time since I was ten it will be with no champagne ( maybe not but I don`t expect it). It will be strange, but after crazy parties it will be nice rest and peace, watching the stars in the middle of the frozen lake with frozen smile on the face, yeah it will be great ( but with my luck it will be cloudy or snowstorm :D ). 

I only want`s to say two things:

1) Thanks to my host family for their generous with they accepted me in their lives 

2) Merry christmas to everybody, stop hunting the presents and just hug each other and be in peace and love, that`s all what the Christmas are about.