mama coffee

ethiopian coffee, banana bread, and "baba" bread.

things are so weird lately. like i mentioned in my last post, i'm incredibly sad about leaving. i taught one of my students today what "bittersweet" meant and used it as an example for leaving prague. i think back to march when i found out i was accepted into the oxford tefl program--- i remember how amazing it felt to make the final decision to move to europe. we had no idea how long we'd be here for. and matt and i were still so new to eachother... yet we made the decision together that we would do it and make it and the decision we made has never given us any feeling of regret. swish. :)

at the moment i am sitting in a cafe called mama coffee. they have 3 different locations in prague and we've never been to this one. it's pretty close to where we live, and it's absolutely adorable inside. there are two floors and they serve sweets and coffees and light meals. i am in awe and kind of disappointed we came here so late in the game.

ugh. that's the problem now. i keep finding places i want to come back to and realize i am going to be gone from here in a matter of weeks. it's upsetting and really getting to me. i loved that feeling in march when i couldn't believe that we were going to be living in europe! now i can't believe i'll be living in florida, again.  i don't want to feel this way. i want to be excited, but it's hard coming back to your stomping grounds with no place to really call "home", yet. i guess i should stop dwelling. i really am trying to have a fantastic last few weeks. really. and i know that having my mom here during our last week will make it insanely good. i can't wait to go to all our favorite restaurants and try out new ones. it's going to be great.

now i may be looking at getting fired from my job. we leave for prague in 2 days! and my work is giving me a really hard time for missing ONE lesson this monday. i literally have given plenty of notice and tried to reschedule it and apparently that is proving to be impossible. i am getting emails upon emails about how i need to have a serious illness to cancel a lesson and that i need medical proof. i am now waiting for an email back that will possibly say they will no longer need me. i mean, great timing. i'm only working another 2 more weeks... and i feel like everything between my manager and i are going downhill. everything i do seems to be a problem lately. i call in sick- she gives me speeches about how wrong that is... and now i can't take one day off. i'm not changing my plane ticket. i'm going to paris and if they want to fire me during my last 2 weeks, fine. it's their loss. i don't get paid enough to be treated like this.

so, we'll see what happens. see you soon, france!

hooters is right outside the cafe!