1 month

So now that I’ve been in Prague for a whole month, I am completely fluent in Czech.

My sister Audrey and her friend Nisha arrived on Thursday so I had fun being their tour guide and taking them to all of my favorite places to eat (yes, I ate at Bohemia Bagel twice this weekend). We also had tickets to a Laterna Magika show called “Grafitti”. The show combines modern dance, video projection, lights, and screens that make an overall really trippy and amazing show. They have other shows too so I really want to go back and see more from this company.

On Saturday after I shipped Audrey off to Vienna, my friends and I took a day trip to Melnik, which is a small town about an hour outside of Prague. We climbed a church steeple all the way up to the belfry and had an incredible view of the rivers and countryside. We also took a tour of a Castle that has been recently restored. Owing to the fact that it was a disgusting, rainy, freezing February day in Czech Republic, no one else was in the castle except for us which was nice. We also had a wine tasting included in our ticket so we walked around the wine cellars and saw the giant barrels. For the actual wine tasting, I kind of expected a little explanation and taste of each of the wines they make at the vineyard. Instead, we were sent into a cellar where there were 10 bottles of wine. Then the woman from the ticket desk said “30 minutes, ok?” and we proceeded to drink as much as we could in thirty minutes. It was swell.

Today was a chill Sunday- grocery shopping, running, Bohemia Bagel and finally schoolwork. Ech. I don’t really like this having to read and write papers so much, but I guess its worth it to be in Prague.

Tonight we also had a meeting with Zuzana about being English tutors at the high school near our dorm. I hope I’ll be able to fit it in my schedule and do some quality Jr. Drama games with trendy Czech teens. I think they’ll like woosh.

This was my last weekend in Prague for a while… next weekend I’ll be in Austria!