Read A Book , Okay ?
I like to read from time to time , I mean , who doesn ’ t ? But , unfortunately , I ’ m not made of money ( to be honest that would be mostly inconvenient ) so I have to resort to more economic-friendly way to get the food for my mind .
If I hadn ’ t been clear up to this point , by all of my rambling above I mean that my first steps often steer for the library .
Shaped like a giant shelves , with names of famous authors and everything , the library consists of two main floors – the children section and the adult section . Here you can choose in myriad of books from various areas of interests . Some are in foreign languages too , like German or Russian and , of course , English .
Help from the overseas
And just to add a little side story here . Our town has very low altitude so we , unfortunately , suffer from an awful lot of floods . The last major flooding occurred in 2013 and our library , situated unfortunately on the shore of the Labe River , was flooded and many books were destroyed .
What we hadn ’ t expected was the help we were provided with . It turned out that there is sizable community of Czech immigrants and their children living in Iowa in the U . S . that were eager to help the country their parents and grandparents came from . They put together about 50,000 USD to help the Czech Republic recover from the flooding . The money went to the Děčín Library , along with number of English books .
But mind you , our town official had NO IDEA we were getting financial help . You can imagine the looks of surprise on their faces when they found out . ( T . V .)