Stephen Cuffey

With some nice ladies. 

Prague castle and Charles Bridge at night! 

And it's back to school here in Pribram. Today is the first day of classes with students at school. Teachers had to be at school all of last week, but it was just for preparatory purposes. But students just had a quick meeting and then fled, so tomorrow I finally have my first class of the school year. I am ready to just get it started, we have been sitting around planning for it and thinking about it for so long that I just want to be doing some teaching. As for these pictures below, Pavla and Jirka took me to a neighboring town, Dobris, to visit a chateau last week. I had been to it before but wanted to see the gardens while the flowers were still colorful. Pavla enjoys taking the pictures, and so explains my sequence of photos with Jirka. But the weather here certaily has been beautiful. And so begins another year in CZ...

The castle/chateau in Dobris. 

Me at the gardens. 

Pavla and me overlooking the gardens of the Dobris castle. 

me and Jirka. 

Swingers: Jirka and me. 

Jirka, Me, and a statue of an animal. 

Me, Jirka in front of Karl and Josef Capek's house. 

Stacy, Kass 

Ben and Andrew (teacher in Kralupy) at the ESI beginning of the year party. 

Saying goodbye to my parents at the airport. 

Andrew and I. 

Hiking. 

At the waterfall. 

Matt, Aaron, Me at training 

At long last I am back in the Czech Republic and able to update my blog again! For most of the months of July and August I was back in the United States seeing friends, family, new places and revisiting old ones. To give you a quick tour of my summer it involved making a few trips from my home in Urbana to visit friends in various reaches of Indiana, being in two weddings (both were just beautiful!), hosting a family reunion of my mother's side in Urbana, flying to LA to help train the new CZ teachers, driving to Alabama for a family vacation (minus Joel who was in Ethiopia this summer) and some time in the sun and Gulf, driving to Tempe, Arizona to move Daniel into ASU and see other friends in that area, hosting a couple friends that visited Urbana (thanks Dan and Jenny!), learning to ride a motorcycle, and finally flying back to the Czech Republic. I returned on Saturday. So if my summer could be summed up into one extremely long run-on sentence, that was it. The pictures below are select pictures from my experiences this past summer.
I am currently at school where I have internet and where teacher prep has started. We are preparing classes, lessons, and long term plans for this upcoming year. Things feel kind of back to normal, same teachers and same school as last year. The students will arrive on Monday. Stay posted for more summer pictures and beginning of the year photos.

A nice sunset in Alabama. 

Daniel and I near Sedona, AZ. 

Jenny and I. 

Me and Brian Berry. 

My brother and me. 

Sunset in Alabama. 

Jon, me, and Phoenix/Tempe in the background. 

Visiting my dad (in background) and his booth at Quad Day on the U of I quad. 

The majority of the teachers for the 2006-2007 Czech team, though some teachers couldn't make it to this picture, sadly.