When I first decided to move to Prague I was an English major in a small college town in Northern California. I had been reading quite a bit of Czech literature and had a friend who had a great experience teaching in Prague. I initially decided to move to Prague for one month, take my TEFL course, and then travel Europe and return to the United States. Two years later and I am still in Prague teaching and working with the people I had met when I first moved here.
I had never spent a serious amount of time in another country before moving to Prague, so I assumed things would be quite different but I wasn't sure exactly what those differences would ...