Comments on: Free Beer and Chillin’ with President Vaclav Klaus

By: Karen

Karen — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:40:30 +0000

I enjoyed this post so much today, I linked to it!

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By: Tanja

Tanja — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:26:29 +0000

Yes Lenka, I completely agree with you!! But you know what’s the craziest thing? That I have to watch myself sometimes not to fall into the same grumpy footsteps…sometimes I complain about the Czechs how horrible they are at times but then I become one of them because I complain about them so much!!!! Right, Keith?
Now my head hurts….

By: keith

keith — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:18:30 +0000

Lenka,
Ha! funny…She totally has the same thoughts about Czechs. She loves her heritage but has a love/hate thing with Czechs. Sometimes she even says to me, “You are being so Czech right now” (if I am being grumpy). Or when I am too negative or critical she will even say, “You are worse than a Czech!!”. I think it is a post-communist negativism thing. But we just have good laughs about it all now…

This is funny- I got a comment from a ‘Stela’ (who Tanja says MUST be Czech) that was exactly this -”Nice post but it’s visit not visitation and invitation not invite. Watch your grammar”. It’s like…really? We had a good laugh about that one…

By: Lenka

Lenka — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:09:36 +0000

Great post. Congrats. Glad you made it, even without the ID
Unfortunatelly you just discribed a lot of Czechs at those functions. Free food, free booze, more food, more booze. Hm, whom can I benefit from. Especially if you put them in a tux. You should probably know that those same people have been complaining to their friends and coworkers how horrible the banquet was. They run out of food, the beer was too cold/too warm (which for a czech, the beer has to have just the right temperature), the organization was horrible. The line to get in took wayyyyyyyyyyyy tooooooooooo long, the trafic out was out of this world. This is one of the bad trades of Czech people. I hate to say it and I hate it more and more, the longer I am out of the Czech Republic. But I am still proud to be a czech born since we have more good trades then bad. I am sure your wife would agree.

By: keith

keith — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:58:00 +0000

Yes it was excellent!!

By: Lydia

Lydia — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:36:23 +0000

I’m so glad you had a great time in our nation’s capital and meeting the president of the Czech Republic sounds extra special. He is a very wise man. The free food and free beer seems especially inviting.

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