User:RiDeana/sandbox

Hello everyone, My name is Deana, and I was born in Manchester, UK. From there I went to a management course in Alabama, US, part of which was also a global conference, where I met my future husband Jan. He was sweet and nothing like the guys I met before him. Soon, we got married, expecting a child. Since my course-studies in the States were almost over, and so was Jan's contract with his company in the US, we decided to settle down in Jan's home country- Czech Republic, to where we moved in the mid 2002. For the retail-shop-owner I am, definite moving cross-the-countries is not easy. I was facing the decision to either physically move my entire business to another country, or to leave it behind.

Esentially, I came up with a third solution. I took all my work on-line. I've lost the shop itself, though kept all the business, while saving on the shipment and stocking fees, and, of course, I was able to go living with my husband in his country.

Being essentially from the historical town in the UK, transfer to the gorgeous surroundings of Prague was really easy on me. Coming straight from the States to Czech Rep brought up a couple of problems, though.. First of all, my Czech was nothing but poor. From Jan, I knew a couple of words like "Hi", or "Thank You", which are really useful, though on their own a bit tricky for a married woman. The czech attitude towards English was a bit lacking.. I understood that being either Russian or German speaker, I would have no problems talking to the locals, though English seemed to be a bit strange language here. Probably due to the Czech History, partly being overruled by Germans, partly by the Russians.

2013 speaking, I have to say that a lot has changed, amongs the Czech global approach. I started giving private English lessons in 2005, when my e-shop took a little break due to some overseas shipment difficulties, and immeditely I started working with children. Watching my own kids growing up in a multicultural household, struggling with not one, but two languages to learn, earned me some useful tips and tricks...