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are you zach?

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Every Thursday at noon I meet my pastor, whom I call Philly D to the double D (it’s his hip-hop name), at St. Bucks for mentoring and sharping; well today while we were talking about life, ministry and etc. I was asked by a stranger, “Are you Zach from the YouTube videos?” I said yes and began to turn red, as this stranger said, “I work at the Malostranska Starbucks and saw your video about us on your blog, it’s really cool, I like them.”. Thanks! I didn’t know how to respond but needless to say it made me laugh and I also realized I have more people on this site than I could even begin to imagine. Which is cool and scary too. So here is to all of you out there in zACHhARROD.com land whom I don’t know! Thanks for reading and stopping by! This has made me want to write more and get more zhtv’s online! We will see what I can do about that. I’ll post that St. Bucks zhtv video later when I have more than my iPod to write on. Okay I’m off to my daily spanking, a.k.a. my Czech lesson!

Here’s that video:


Here is a picture Phil took of me today at St. Bucks. This is phonetically how Czechs spell my name, Z-A-C-H, I guess! It’s fun!

podzim je tady!

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“Fall is here!” I love cool weather and temps, with that said, they have arrived! (Sorry to my friends who are from warmer climates and don’t enjoy this as much as me. I understand I’m a little “different,” as my roommate likes to say.) Soon the leaves will change color and this city will burst into colors that I love! Today was the first day that I took out one of my blazers, scarves and hats for cooler weather and, attempted, to rock them well! I loved it! I thought I would share my joy with you!

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what’s in a name?

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Not too long ago I posted a rant (it’s czech people!) about people on both sides of the political divide in the States calling my home, and the place I love dearly, Czechoslovakia. Which it hasn’t been since January 1, 1993, but that’s okay continue to call it Czechoslovakia… No, no, no! In fact, to help us all out, here is a wiki article, Dissolution of Czechoslovakia, to enlighten us all about the so-called “Velvet Divorce” between, the now, Czech Republic and Slovakia.

I also have a little more to help us in our journey of recognizing this very dear country as the Czech Republic. This week over at Radio Praha, an article was posted, Czechoslovakia, Czech Republic or Czechia – what’s in a name?, that should help us on this journey. Here is one quote that I wanted to share with you:

“Well, there are a couple of aspects to it. One is, that it used to be Czechoslovakia, so there are people who were born in Czechoslovakia and there are people who consider themselves Czechoslovaks. And there are certain agreements and events that actually took place in Czechoslovakia. So when you are talking about Czechoslovakia, you should properly speak about Czechoslovakia. The problem comes when people don’t realise that there was a transition and they think that they are talking about Czechoslovakia and in fact they are talking about the Czech Republic, which is difficult in and of itself, and that is where all the confusion comes in of course.”

I must admit that I know this is a hard one and I can show grace, but there is part of me that feels that its my duty to help many distinguish my new home from a country formerly called Czechoslovakia! Here is a map as well, which should will help us locate where we are in the world here in the Czech Republic.


As you can see we are, probably, the most centrally located country (and Prague is probably the most centrally located city) in all of Europe. We are no where near Former Yugoslavia. Well, I’m off to a staff meeting and prayer… Thanks for stop by zACHhARROD.com for this history/geography lesson!


DisclaimerI hope you pick up my sarcasm and realize that I’m just having some fun, while trying to make a slight point. Thanks for understanding! Blessings…

life in prague…

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A few days ago my friends, the Syvertsens, posted a link for the J. Crew ad/short film, which highlights Prague! I just had to follow and post it on my blog as well.


Unfortunately, (or Fortunately I’m not quite sure) life doesn’t quite look like this for me – no cool car, no girl, no cute kids running with balloons, and no strong jaw like the one guy model – but a young man can dream right! At least for some of that… Haha! You could probably leave the strong jaw (I’m okay with my jaw) and car off, but I’d take the rest! J. Crew really did capture some beautiful pics that are showcased in their fall catalog. I tried to find if they had the pics up somewhere outside the catalog but I could only find one (found at Love Made Visible).

Beautiful stuff and I’m stoked to see Prague featured like this!

zhtv 14 – the beard

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This is probably the oddest zhtv episode yet! I enjoy it though. I laughed pretty hard while throwing this one together. I hope you laugh as well. This week was a week were I needed to step back, take a deep breath, and laugh. So this brought some much needed laughter. By the way, please pray for my visa process. I have to go to Dresden on Tuesday and hopefully get a short-term visa that will keep me legal until, Lord-willing, my long-term comes in! Needless to say, I’m not a fan of the Schengen Agreement and how it has made this process more difficult than it already was. Praise God, I’m learning dependency through this!

By the way, here is a picture of Krakonoš, the mythical Czech character I was being told I look like prior to this episode of zhtv.
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