Tommy's rotary exchange

      This post is quite short, mostly because I have not been taking many photos. While I totally want to blame it on being in the moment and always being busy with something, I will try my best to take a bunch of photos, especially with the holidays coming up. I also said I would post again before December in my last blog post, so this is also so past me can save face. I will almost certainly post twice in December, as I can kind of feel things picking up (yet again another promise that I might end up breaking).     School has once again been mostly the same. The math teacher finally realized that I am not Czech. Other than that nothing much happens in school. I did sign up for a school floorball tournament in December. I have never played floorball before, so I am really hoping my classmates can carry the team to victory. I will tell you all how it goes next month.     I have still been going to orienteering practices, though the races have ended with the cold weather. The team I am

    Hi again. I forgot to post for a whole month so I'm just going to post whenever I remember from now on. I think I haven't posted recently because of school intensifying and the weekends becoming more consistent (they are still very fun, but I would just be describing the same stuff in every post).      One thing that is still crazy to me is how unexciting people find castles to be. A while back we went some ruins after an orienteering meet and I was blown away, but my host father said, "This one's okay... there's a better one close to  Jihlava". I thought he was joking at the time but he was serious. There was one less than 20 minutes away and it was AMAZING. We flew a camera drone to get some shots of it in the sunset, and it was very cool to explore.         I am starting to understand more words in Czech, though I know I am far from fluent. In some sentences I can pick up enough words to at least partially understand it, but I do not understand the gram