Came back...

I have came back to my home town, Malaysia. It's hard to get used to it, once you are in a foreign country for 3 years. So the policies, hygiene, I'm not used to it. Even the language I'm not used to.



So there's a lot of diffrence between Europe and Asia. It's hard to get used to it. But in a while, You wouldn't want to go back to the place where you were staying years ago. I guess once you stayed at a place for days, you would think it as your home. So home isn't that boring, you can do a lots of revising and playing outside, even using the computer.

Do not think Europe's adventure has ended, (psst, there are still 20 countries to be written)

Home town of Josef Lada- Hrusice

Have you ever read the book 《The Good Soldier Svejk》 ? If you had ever read it, you must know the writer Jaroslav Hasek. But did you ever knew the book's illustrator Josef Lada? If you don't, this is what we are going to talk today, But mainly about his hometown- Hrusice.

Josef was born 17 December 1887 in Hrusice - 14 December 1957 in Prague, Josef and Hasek are very close freinds, and his name is known because of illustraiting the book 《The Good Soldier Svejk》.

The city Hrusice treats Josef like a celebrity. You can find at least 1 picture of his drawings almost 1 every km. of course, at parks, boards, sometimes even at menus and restraunts you can find his pictures. They even had his own musuem! Let me show you pictures.

Rust- The town of Storks

I went to the city of Rust, which some of the houses rusts(not really). But this is not the main point. When I looked up the sky, There were many storks resting in their nests, but it's not at the trees, it's on the chimneys!







Luckily those 'volcanos' aren't active anymore. If they are, those eggs up there would be scrambled in less then a hour. I saw that those stork have a 'sea' of their own. People protected a lake only for storks which contained lots of fish that they can enjoy. Some storks stand very still. They stand without moving that you can't tell if it's reallife or fake.







So why are storks treated like celebrities?

In Western culture the White Stork is a symbol of childbirth. In Victorian times the details of human reproduction were difficult to approach, especially in reply to a younger child's query of "Where did I come from?"; "The stork brought you to us" was the tactic used to avoid discussion of sex. This habit was derived from the once popular superstition that storks were the harbingers of happiness and prosperity, and possibly from the habit of some storks of nesting a top chimneys, down which the new baby could be imagined as entering the house.

Since Austria was Western, This myth was believed.



So long!