This week marked the beginning of new routines for us. Katrina began attending a neighborhood preschool three days a week. It's a bilingual Czech/English school, and we joke that because of her age and the exposure she will get, Katrina is our shining hope to have a fluent Czech speaker in the family by year's end. Her classmates come from all over the world. In addition to the Czech Republic there are kids from Hungary, Slovenia, Ireland, and Japan. Talking with other parents at drop off and pick up time is fascinating. Katrina's reaction so far, "When do I get to go again?" Charyssa was also busy this week gearing up to teach. She was hired by a language school to teach English for Business and International Communication. She will teach classes four afternoons a week beginning next week. It is sure to be interesting.
Rod had his first "normal" week of work after traveling to conferences in England and Brno (Brno is about two hours east of Prague). He doesn't begin teaching until the beginning of October, so is working on various projects, preparing for a seminar, and eating Czech cafeteria food for lunch. His coworkers are very nice but his Czech needs work before he'll understand a lot of what they're saying.
However, this week wasn't all about work. This is the time of the traditional grape harvest festivals. We took in a celebration at Prague Castle on Saturday afternoon. There were folk groups singing and dancing, and we had the chance to sample the drink called "Burchak", which is unfiltered freshly fermenting grape juice. It looks like cloudy white grape juice with some fizziness. It's quite good, but can be dangerous... you can't taste the alcohol, but it's there! 
The kids had fun turning the wheel of the grape press. 
There were also children's activities, the highlight of which was trying on medieval armor and weapons. A good time was had by all.
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