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How to Develop a Friendship While Studying Abroad

Erika Murakami We sometimes find it difficult to make a new friend even in our own culture. It is easy to imagine how difficult it is to develop a friendship between people from different cultural backgrounds. In my first month in Brno, I struggled to make new friends and became seriously homesick. In …

Growing Up in a Digital Media Environment

Miriam Fischer Me, Myself and My Smartphone Take a look to your left, now take a look to your right. I guess your smartphone is situated within your direct reach. The electronic monitoring system is our constant companion through our daily routine and by now indispensable for most of its users. How else …

The Power of Yoga

Monika Olejníčková Nowadays, more and more people suffer from extreme stress. Stress has become one of the main causes of many illnesses – from minor troubles such as a headache or a cold, through digestive problems to serious health conditions (physical and psychological), which may end in death. Fortunately, many people have …

The Beat was Here

Tomáš Průdek The second World War just ended and the average American is richer than he has ever been. There is no reason not to enjoy the fruits of growing economy and buy everything that is being advertised. For many, those were the times when money could buy you happiness …

IN TEACHING YOU WILL LEARN

Veronika Machová If you study at the Faculty of Education you are supposed to experience an internship at a primary school. I am going to tell you my story, in which the main obstacle was not the pupils or the teaching itself. It was my first lesson of the day. I had got …