Prazdniny od “prazdny”? Budou vase dny prazdne? My si prave rozhodujeme o svych…

Sice skolni rok v UK trva typicky do druhe tretiny cervence kvuli trem tydennim ‘half-terms’ v prubehu skolniho roku, letos ale kvuli pandemii a zavreni skol provozujeme vyuku z domova uz 4mesice a skoly se jim do konce skolniho roku neotevrou, takze je v podstate jedno kdy pojedeme a kam (pokud tam bude wi-fi) nebot jejich aktivity jsou online. A ja jsem odabsolvovala, jen musim vratit knizky do universitni knihovny kterou udajne otevrou 1/7.

No a protoze uz driveji jsem se rozhodla ze letosni leto venuji detem abych jim vynahradila skolni rok kdy jsem je ponekud zanedbavala, (a vyuzila toho ze se mnou jeste chteji byt), zbyva rozhodnout jak ten spolecny cas bezpecne a pritom dobrodruzne, pokud mozno zazitkove, aktivne a smysluplne stravit.

Puvodni plan byl zustat v UK a najit nejake zajimave destinace tady, a podnikat male ci vetsi vylety z naseho noveho domaciho zazemi v jiznim Londyne. Jsme pojizdni a nove mame psa, situace na hranicich kvuli covidu se meni a regulace a narizeni s ni, rousky se nam nosit nechce, ani se pohybovat nekde mezi mnozstvim turistu.

Ale jak cas plyne tech atraktivnich destinaci v Anglii se stale nedostavalo, pres airbnb uz jsem mela procestovany skoro vsechno a volby mezi chatou/srubem jako pristavbe nejake farmy nebo karavanem v primorskem letovisku zadne uzasne vyhlidky neskytaly.

Zacala jsem zjistovat realitu pozemni cesty do CR se psem. Nejdriv neslo ani smluvit schuzku u veterinare kvili pasu a ockovani psa protoze neslo o ‘nezbytne nutnou’. Pred par dny se ale zadarilo a pes je oockovany a pas ve vyrobe. Vlak v tunelu po morem  zabookovany a nocleh v Nemecku na pul cesty taky.

Cechy krasne, Cechy me, pres rezervovanost mych deti (“nechceme jet, jsou tam rasisti” a “mami ty nas tam zas nechas jak posledne“)…..teste se na nas, jedeme!

Sami you are growing into an extraordinary young man. I know you will be increasingly annoyed by me trying to influence you, but its absolutely fine. I’ll keep trying, maybe just for next few years and soon you’ll be ready to enter the adulthood. I think you are doing brilliantly so far. I love your calmness, its good contrast to Roxy’s craziness. We make a good team! And I love the fact that you have a good relationship with your dad, it means a world to me, keep it up.

Thanks for killing all the spiders at home and being a man in the house! Thanks for your independence and efforts with home learning, I know its not easy. I keep wondering what growing up in this part of London means to you, what memories will you have when you grow up, because mine are beautiful and wonderful and I fear that life here can’t offer you as much as growing up in Czech countryside, the freedom to discover, the games we played. I sometimes worry about the influence of digital word and social media and the pressure you might be under. I hope we manage to keep healthy balance and good outlook at life as I think we have right now.

I love you Samuel!

Happy Birthday x

(PS: sorry we couldn’t have a party like last year because of the lockdown but I’ll make it up to you)