Where else could you meet.... all in one place...?

I've recently been party to a few conversations with similar themes... the wonders and the variety of the people you meet here in Prague.

Before I get much in to that, I'm going to explain a bit how I've had to develop relationships here... by seriously stepping beyond my comfort zone and really extending myself, way more than I have ever even approached in my life in the US.

First - online networking - there are a few different sites you can find to connect you with the local expat community. EXPATS.CZ is one of the main ones... there are other social networks to which I have also subscribed - MEETinPRAGUE, couchsurfing, Internations... various FaceBook groups... and others.

Through these online groups I have been able to participate in numerous in-person events - parties, book exchanges, music, dancing, pub crawls, networking events, and more... and at these events I've met tons and tons of people. So many I leave overwhelmed and unable to sort the names and faces...

So... that's one avenue for finding friends here...

And in this week I've had conversations with:


A closed captionist,
A conductor
A behavioral specialist,
A composer,
A photographer (a few)
Numerous DJs,
A few writers
Quite a few musicians,
Several lawyers,
A doctor,
A translator,
A guy who does the dubbed voices for English language movies,
A bodybuilder,
TONS of IT people,
A number of masters and doctoral students - only one other American, the other all European - none in my program
A man who avoided the Iranian draft,
A seismologist who studies the ocean floor for oil
A geologist who does sort of the same thing - these two don't know each other,
A Romanian AP reporter living in Prague,
Quite a few professors,
Published authors,
Any number of people who work in customer service,
A few diplomats,
Quite a few english teachers (how trite and American!)
And a few very young retirees.

There are more, but my brain has stopped functioning. This shall suffice for now. These are the ones I don't interact with on a daily basis... I'll get to my friends another day...