July 27, 2009 - Spelled right!

How to express the deep feeling of homecoming when the person checking passports at the airport in Prague, who had just had a fluent conversation in English with a couple from Australia ahead of me, looked at my passport, gave me a big smile, said my name correctly out loud, and greeted me in Czech. This after a youth and young adulthood spent with people routinely questionning whether I, in fact, knew how to spell my name.