left a little of my heart in praha
oof.
its been almost two years since i wrote on livejournal.
BUT seeing as i got back today from a month in prague and such, i'll just start back up again. so, things:
1. i am SO upset that i lost my camera. (i was really wasted and lost it at a club). it had 900+ pictures of the trip on it and i don't know if i'll ever get them back... i've posted a lot of things online but who knows if its any use.
2. other than that- everything about the past month has been amazing. i went into it barely knowing anyone and by the end absolutely LOVED just about everyone i was there with. (okay, with a few exceptions, but in retrospect it could have been worse). i'm going to miss the praha gang so much... especially not seeing them until january since i'll be abroad in the fall.
3. europe is faaaantastic, i have great/horrible/hilarious stories about the things that happened to me there... a few examples:
- sleeping/crying/drunkenly being on the sidewalk with a german flag as a blanket. in the rain. at 5am. disaster.
- buying EVERYONE i was with a shot of absinth just because i had cash to burn on the last night (yay hungover international flights!).
- spending an entire day in a dress where everyone could see my polka-dotted underwear (but i was told it was on someone's list of top 10 things to see in prague, so hey, not bad).
- making the facebook group for the trip while drunk & sloppy.
- my teacher (she IS female chuck norris) bribing a bus driver & commandeering a bus in Bratislava to get us back to our botel. (boat + hotel = fun).
- almost being run over by trams on multiple occasions.
- packing for the completely wrong weather the first week, then it hitting the opposite extreme for the next two weeks before going back to freezing & raining at the end. (i think prague was just sad to see us go).
- wandering prague, by myself, very tipsy, in my Czech soccer jersey after they lost the game and still chanting "cesky! cesky!" with some locals in the street.
- there was NEVER enough toilet paper in our apartment. ever.
- coming home at sunrise on multiple occasions.
- going paddleboating in an inappropriately short dress (i was 1/2 of the skank paddleboat) and putting my leg in the Vltava river which supposedly is swimming with disease. oops.
- becoming best friends with a jewish man named Assaf at a bar (he totally had a jewfro, and told me he was going to new york the next day and that he wanted to kiss me. i declined and then he wouldn't dance with me anymore). later that night on the walk home (at 4am) i got a falafel pita in his honor.
- ahh so many more amazing things about all the places i went (other than Prague, also went to Bratislava, Vienna, Kutna Hora, Terezin, Nuremberg, Erlangen). oh how i love central europe <3
4. i missed home SO MUCH while i was there though! one day when i was hungover but couldn't sleep (lulz) i looked at all the pictures people had put up of summery things at home. and i can't waittt for my real 845 summer to start.
5. ryan is probably coming to visit this weekend :) and i feel lame that i miss him SO MUCH and really can't wait.
i don't know why i made a number list? that was silly. anyways i need to unpack everythinggg and then sleep for as many hours as possible. in my big american bed. and take a normal american shower, where the shower head is taller than me and there is a curtain and all that jazz.
can i see friends soon plz?
kthx.
its been almost two years since i wrote on livejournal.
BUT seeing as i got back today from a month in prague and such, i'll just start back up again. so, things:
1. i am SO upset that i lost my camera. (i was really wasted and lost it at a club). it had 900+ pictures of the trip on it and i don't know if i'll ever get them back... i've posted a lot of things online but who knows if its any use.
2. other than that- everything about the past month has been amazing. i went into it barely knowing anyone and by the end absolutely LOVED just about everyone i was there with. (okay, with a few exceptions, but in retrospect it could have been worse). i'm going to miss the praha gang so much... especially not seeing them until january since i'll be abroad in the fall.
3. europe is faaaantastic, i have great/horrible/hilarious stories about the things that happened to me there... a few examples:
- sleeping/crying/drunkenly being on the sidewalk with a german flag as a blanket. in the rain. at 5am. disaster.
- buying EVERYONE i was with a shot of absinth just because i had cash to burn on the last night (yay hungover international flights!).
- spending an entire day in a dress where everyone could see my polka-dotted underwear (but i was told it was on someone's list of top 10 things to see in prague, so hey, not bad).
- making the facebook group for the trip while drunk & sloppy.
- my teacher (she IS female chuck norris) bribing a bus driver & commandeering a bus in Bratislava to get us back to our botel. (boat + hotel = fun).
- almost being run over by trams on multiple occasions.
- packing for the completely wrong weather the first week, then it hitting the opposite extreme for the next two weeks before going back to freezing & raining at the end. (i think prague was just sad to see us go).
- wandering prague, by myself, very tipsy, in my Czech soccer jersey after they lost the game and still chanting "cesky! cesky!" with some locals in the street.
- there was NEVER enough toilet paper in our apartment. ever.
- coming home at sunrise on multiple occasions.
- going paddleboating in an inappropriately short dress (i was 1/2 of the skank paddleboat) and putting my leg in the Vltava river which supposedly is swimming with disease. oops.
- becoming best friends with a jewish man named Assaf at a bar (he totally had a jewfro, and told me he was going to new york the next day and that he wanted to kiss me. i declined and then he wouldn't dance with me anymore). later that night on the walk home (at 4am) i got a falafel pita in his honor.
- ahh so many more amazing things about all the places i went (other than Prague, also went to Bratislava, Vienna, Kutna Hora, Terezin, Nuremberg, Erlangen). oh how i love central europe <3
4. i missed home SO MUCH while i was there though! one day when i was hungover but couldn't sleep (lulz) i looked at all the pictures people had put up of summery things at home. and i can't waittt for my real 845 summer to start.
5. ryan is probably coming to visit this weekend :) and i feel lame that i miss him SO MUCH and really can't wait.
i don't know why i made a number list? that was silly. anyways i need to unpack everythinggg and then sleep for as many hours as possible. in my big american bed. and take a normal american shower, where the shower head is taller than me and there is a curtain and all that jazz.
can i see friends soon plz?
kthx.