Laundryday Sunday... again.

Another great Prauge weekend that ends at the Cyber Laundromat. On Friday I had my last day of Czech class. Profesorka Jitka made us do dialogues then read our grades allowed. (I guess the Czechs don’t really care about grade privacy and related feelings of self-worth). But at least she gave everyone As for trying! Then she took us on a trip to the Jewish Quarter where we saw the cemetery and six synagogues, all of which are decorated differently and now feature different museum exhibits about Bohemian Jews through history. The irony of being an American Jew in Prague is that there are lots of Jewish things to see, but no actual Jews.

Friday night I went to see Swan Lake (this time I actually knew it was going to be a ballet) at the National Theatre and it was excellent. Afterwards we went to Café Lourve, which is a really important café where Einstein and Kafka hung out. It is one of the few real cafes to survive communism and now it’s where all the trendsetters and intellectuals in Prague go for cake. SOOO GOOD.

Saturday I visited the Toy Museum which was cool but a bit torturous for me because you’re not allowed to touch anything. You can’t even touch when no one is looking because everything was behind glass! But there was a huge exhibit on the history of Barbie so obviously that made me happy. I also ran into Erica Lundgren of SHS 06 fame. She is in Barcelona for the semester but came up to Prague for a break.

Saturday night was a very entertaining experience. We started at Casa Blů, which is supposedly the best Mexican in Prague. I just ate before though and had lovely Mexican drinks because we all know how I feel about burritos. After I met a Long Lake friend who was in Prague for the week on vacation and we went to U Suku, which is a really authentic, non-touristy (but still a tad Američanky) dungeon bar. It seriously had 5 levels below ground and really cheap pivo. Here, we met a cast of characters including Viki, a huge middle aged Czech who wanted to practice English but was too drunk to remember any, a group of Southern Architecture majors who are doing a grad project on the communist apartment buildings, and a very large, very rowdy group of Englishmen in town to celebrate a birthday. One of them looked like a cross between Aldus Snow and Johnny Depp (Facebook photos to follow soon) and kept trying to pet my head. Really, overall a very special night that ended back in the Kojel with Nutella snacks for all.

Tonight I’m going to the Globe Café, which is also a big name in Prague café culture. They show foreign films on Sunday night and everyone drinks coffee and acts exceptionally intellectual and artsy.

And finally tomorrow I actually start “real class”. Blech.