javorina

After a few days of eating, drinking and lying around ;) we decided it's time to move around a bit. Mathias and his cousin, Kevin, arrived yesterday and we planned a hike up Javorina for today. In the end, it was more of a walk than a hike. Well. Anyway, as we got up there, we were genuinely surprised to see snow because, even though it snowed on Christmas Eve a bit, there's no snow down here. It was one of those very pleasant surprises so I jumped around like a small kid :) The weather was gorgeous and we also met a few of our friends up there. We grabbed dinner on the way home and went to the teahouse in the evening. A nice day :) 

bystrica

This week I spent two days in Banská Bystrica. There was a training I went to so I didn't have a lot of time for fun stuff but I at least got to walk around a little bit, checked out the Christmas markets and managed to take a few pics. It's always fun to go back to places you used to walk every day. The only problem was the weather - it's been so warm and there's no snow :( Something went wrong somewhere... I'm still hopeful though, and looking forward to white Christmas ;) Merry Christmas everyone!

zobor & christmas market

On Saturday morning, my colleague Mišo and I went for a little hike up Zobor. It wasn't as muddy as I had thought, even though it had been raining almost all day Thursday and Friday. The view was beautiful because the clouds were really low and there was fog everywhere around Nitra. On Sunday, Mišo, his wife Silvia and I went to see the Christmas markets. I bought only roasted chestnuts because the lines for Christmas punch and trdelník were too long. There were a lot of people and no snow, but the atmosphere was nice. Only two more weeks till Christmas, yay! 

mikuláš

As you know, Mikuláš is coming tonight to bring candy to good kids :) So clean your shoes and put them in the window! Mikuláš came to our school today, too. I have a club at school and we organized some fun activities for kids from a kindergarten. My students were dressed up as Mikuláš, angels and devils and prepared a fun morning for the little ones. They played sports, colored paper Christmas decorations, decorated a Christmas tree, sang carols and in the end got candy from Mikuláš. The most important thing is that we all had fun!