The most popular sport around here is clearly tennis. EVERYONE has taken tennis lessons and goes and plays matches against their friends for fun. The schools don't offer organized teams for any sport either, so kids have to pay to join a private team or league or whatever if they want to play sports. Most Czech athletes are known for their tennis abilities though. Henk has said that if anyone from here tells me they suck at tennis, that means they could kick my ass with ease :) Alex takes tennis lessons once a week. There are 3 or 4 other little boys that play with him and he has a really nice and patient teacher. OK, so I have no clue what the teacher says, but he smiles a lot and seems to be really good with the kids. Ivana also takes private lessons once a week (from the same teacher even) and is all concerned about her back hand or her foot placement or whatever. I'd just be excited if I could get on a tennis court and hit a ball remotely in the direction that I was intending too.
We're still working on my work permit and resident visa so I can be legal and not kicked outta this place in two months. Tomorrow I'm heading to the embassy again to see if they can help me get an official US criminal background check. Here it's also a legal requirement to have every open job approved by the Czech government, so to hire me as an employee of Henk's company, they had to come up with a job description that only I could fill. If the government thought that someone other than me was more qualified, they would be forced to interview other candidates and the government would have a say in who they choose to fill the position. Fortunately they were convincing enough to get a position for a native English speaker approved, so now we can write up a contract to present to the government. After all of that is finished we can think about choosing an embassy to process my visa. We'll probably go to Dresden, Vienna or Bratislava. Last time I visited the embassy they didn't let me in, and they're still not answering their phone (I wonder if it's Czech or American employees who clearly don't wish to speak to me! haha), so we'll see how my attempts pan out tomorrow.
We're still working on my work permit and resident visa so I can be legal and not kicked outta this place in two months. Tomorrow I'm heading to the embassy again to see if they can help me get an official US criminal background check. Here it's also a legal requirement to have every open job approved by the Czech government, so to hire me as an employee of Henk's company, they had to come up with a job description that only I could fill. If the government thought that someone other than me was more qualified, they would be forced to interview other candidates and the government would have a say in who they choose to fill the position. Fortunately they were convincing enough to get a position for a native English speaker approved, so now we can write up a contract to present to the government. After all of that is finished we can think about choosing an embassy to process my visa. We'll probably go to Dresden, Vienna or Bratislava. Last time I visited the embassy they didn't let me in, and they're still not answering their phone (I wonder if it's Czech or American employees who clearly don't wish to speak to me! haha), so we'll see how my attempts pan out tomorrow.
Wow, what a process with the embassy! I hope it goes well! :)
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