Just with your eyes I will see
"I've been looking forward to this all day! Except when I forgot about it." -Kelsey
"Lookout! That must be piss--oh you don't care." -Cass, pointing to the stream of horse pee cutting into our walking path.
"I have the bladder of a two year old girl." -Ryan, sitting outside of some German club.
A room with double threaded yarn strung across white walls. A bench in the center of this room, a man in black pants and a light blue dress shirt. The days spent working here. Protecting the art, the yarn. Lost in a world of white wall. All of your thoughts tied together by yarn.
"Wow, a lot of guys want to marry you!" -Kelsey
"Yeah, a lot want to marry me but no one will date me." -Katie
"Did you have a great time? Besides the 60 year-old man wanting to have sex with you...aggressively." -Kelsey
"I didn't know that happened in real life!" -Cass
"The movies are real!" -Kelsey
"I like muscles though, that's my major." -Katie
"Rockcoach." (As in cockroach) -Christian
"We will fight through this...and by we, I mean the only one with a guy." -Cass
"I get along better with cats." -Tony
"I'm stuck in the middle of information." -Christian
"Oh my gosh, is that why Lukas gave you that look?" -Katie
"What the hell did happen?" SMS from Thomas in response to hearing that Katie, Cass, and I had stranded ourselves in Kromeriz.
"What happens in Kromeriz stays in Kromeriz." -Katie
"No no, you are not stupid, you just feel stupid." -Cass
"In England, it is a compliment for the cook if you poop and burp at the end of the meal." -Thomas
"I try to remind myself that conservatives are people too." -Kelsey
Thomas while wrestling Christian: "Ich habe Kramt in Arsch!" (Ah! I have an ass-cramp! sorry if i spelled the german part incorrectly...
"It's cabbage day or something. Everyone had their wagons full of cabbage." -Thomas
"Hey Irish girl, what do you write?" -Christian
Kelsey: "To je bezmasa, yo?" (This is without meat, yes?)
Waiter: "Yo, Yo."
And then my slovakian specialty arrives with bacon bits scattered all over the top of it.
Me trying to say dekuju in Prague. After several miserable attempts Cass says "its dekuju, what's wrong with you?"
"Some say cup the balls, I say cup the boobs." -anonymous
Palicinky --> PHalicinky.
"...while people are fairly young and the musical composition of their lives is still in its opening bars, they can go about writing it together and exchange motifs...but if they meet when they are older, their musical compositions are more or less complete and every motif, every object, every word means something different to each of them." -Kundera
From the "Good Tea Room" menu: AFRICA, Kenya Fop: A tea from the wild black equatorial region of Africa, dark in the cup and dark in taste. For lovers of the scorching sun, hippopotami, and braids.
At the Rendevouz Cafe with Cass: we order a chocolate milkshake and chocolate pudding palicinky. What comes out is some berry something with whipped milk and berry palacinky. When trying the "milkshake" I ask Cass, "What is it?" Cass replies, "Dimatap!"
"...he loved her in his memories as well." -Kundera
"You're going outside with wet hair?? But its too cold..." -Tadeja
"Okay, you ready to go?" I said to Kasia. "Yes, yes! Oh, but wait, your hair, its still wet--you can't go out with wet hair!" -Kasia
"Oh, your hair is wet, you can get sick you know?" -Goschka
"Your hair is still wet. This is not good. My mom says this is a dangerous thing to do." -Christian
From Katie's book for class, "The Monk," by Matthew Lewis: "Away, impure ideas!"
"Blbicka."
"She turned to him. But Thomas did not respond. He kept his eyes on the road ahead. Having thus failed to scale the fence of silence between them, she lost all courage to speak." -Kundera
As Cass rips the Vienna and Bratislava sections from my Europe guidebook, Thomas says with a look of fear and disgust, "What are you doing?? Its a book! You can't rip pages out of a book!"
Cass: "Yeah, so. You want me to carry around all of fucking Europe when I only need 5 pages?"
From "Lets Go-Europe." Slovak Republic: Safety and security, tap water varies in quality and appearance, but is generally safe..the SR is friendly toward lone women travelers, though they may encounter stares.
Russia: Safety and Security, For medical emergencies, leave the country...
Katie goes into Rene's room and asks to borrow one of his REM cds. "Which one?" "The End of the World." "Bush won?"
At hostel in Budapest:
Christian: "What do you think they would say if they noticed later that there's a towel missing?"
Kelsey: "Hopefully nothing, because I took mine as well."
In trying to decide how many cups of chocolate milk are okay for me to drink in the morning (never knew i needed help deciding this, heh):
"Don't you agree?" -Christian
"No, there are no rules." -Cass
"Of course there are." -Christian
"hellooo?"
Written in my notebook and shown to Cass while sitting in a Hungarian restaurant (ah yes, the one that ripped us off): I feel like we are roadkill and the waiters are vultures circling around us.
"Oh Gyor!"
While standing in line at the Delvita grocery store Cass notices the condom display to our right. "Hmm, 'extra-safe,' what does that say about the rest of the kinds of condoms?"
"Why does everyone want to live in Delaware?" -Kelsey
"White, because 'caballo' is spanish for beach." -Jorg
Me to Kasia: "Do you have my camera?? Yes, you have it! Where is it?"
Kasia: "Between my bottoms!"
"It seems to me that if you place music (and books, probably, and films and plays and anything that makes you feel) at the center of your being, then you can't afford to sort out your love life, start to think of it as a finished product. You've got to pick at it, keep it alive and in turmoil, you've got to pick at it and unravel it until it all comes apart and you're compelled to start all over again. Maybe we all live life at too high a pitch, those of us who absorb emotional things all day, and as a consequence we can never feel merely content: we have to be unhappy, or ecstatically head-over-heels happy, and those states are difficult to achieve in a stable, solid relationship." -Nick Horby in High Fidelity
Kelsey: "That's one reason why I am afraid to have kids--what if one of them turns into a serial killer?"
Cass: "Or a republican!"
As Cass and I go into Kasia's home flat she says to us, "Please, take your clothes off!"
Clubs where a 16 year-old Eminem was clearing our glasses.
"Your nose is different than mine."
Cass: "I missed you today."
Kels: "I missed you too." I miss you whenever you aren't directly in front of me. (I go behind my door) Cass, where are you?? I miss you! I miss you!"
Cass: "Okay, okay. Just don't go hug a toilet or anything."
"In the movie 'Celebrity,' Woody Allen plays himself...and he is just marvelous." -Radim Marada, professor of Resurrecting Civil Society in Central Europe.
"It's all in the way you look at life- you too can have a story book life!" -Katie (who indeed does have a story book life!)
"You are a girl of many words, you can do it." -Katie
"A leaf falls and OJ hides in the closet." -Dad
Czech teacher: "Okay, so how many genders do we have in Czech?"
Richard: "Um, seven?"
"I love petrol, its very tasty!" -Kasia
Dark, crowed salt mine elevators.
Me gargling salt water in the bathroom. Kasia from her bed: Deeper! Wider! Longer!...Wider!! More water!! that's right!! again again!!
Strc prst skrz krk.
"So you are brave people, studying czech." -Katia, ucitelka
Kasia: "This dictionary today raped my pony. I don't want him to be in my room." I promptly threw it out of the room.
"Tonight you have spoken more czech than you have all semester." -Kasia
After spilling tea on her microbiology book Kasia says, "well, can't study from this. It's ill. Needs to dry."
"Less informed people like to live in illusions." -Marada
"Boobipher" = Christopher and Booboo = always together
"On the first day, somebody caught my eye. And on the third day I started writing in my journal mostly in broken Spanish." -Kelsey
"Do you have custard in America?" -Phoebe
"I don't know, is it like pudding?" -Kelsey
"What is pudding?" -Phoebe
"you know, chocolate stuff..in the jello family, but definitely not jello." -Kelsey
"No, not like that. It's yellow." -Phoebe
"oh yeah, the yellow stuff!" -Kelsey
"Yeah, what do you call it?" -Helen
"Custard." -Kelsey
Kat: "You know, I thought about bringing Bob home to Englan with me."
Kelsey: "And why didn't you?"
Kat: "Because I thought I might go to jail."
"Lookout! That must be piss--oh you don't care." -Cass, pointing to the stream of horse pee cutting into our walking path.
"I have the bladder of a two year old girl." -Ryan, sitting outside of some German club.
A room with double threaded yarn strung across white walls. A bench in the center of this room, a man in black pants and a light blue dress shirt. The days spent working here. Protecting the art, the yarn. Lost in a world of white wall. All of your thoughts tied together by yarn.
"Wow, a lot of guys want to marry you!" -Kelsey
"Yeah, a lot want to marry me but no one will date me." -Katie
"Did you have a great time? Besides the 60 year-old man wanting to have sex with you...aggressively." -Kelsey
"I didn't know that happened in real life!" -Cass
"The movies are real!" -Kelsey
"I like muscles though, that's my major." -Katie
"Rockcoach." (As in cockroach) -Christian
"We will fight through this...and by we, I mean the only one with a guy." -Cass
"I get along better with cats." -Tony
"I'm stuck in the middle of information." -Christian
"Oh my gosh, is that why Lukas gave you that look?" -Katie
"What the hell did happen?" SMS from Thomas in response to hearing that Katie, Cass, and I had stranded ourselves in Kromeriz.
"What happens in Kromeriz stays in Kromeriz." -Katie
"No no, you are not stupid, you just feel stupid." -Cass
"In England, it is a compliment for the cook if you poop and burp at the end of the meal." -Thomas
"I try to remind myself that conservatives are people too." -Kelsey
Thomas while wrestling Christian: "Ich habe Kramt in Arsch!" (Ah! I have an ass-cramp! sorry if i spelled the german part incorrectly...
"It's cabbage day or something. Everyone had their wagons full of cabbage." -Thomas
"Hey Irish girl, what do you write?" -Christian
Kelsey: "To je bezmasa, yo?" (This is without meat, yes?)
Waiter: "Yo, Yo."
And then my slovakian specialty arrives with bacon bits scattered all over the top of it.
Me trying to say dekuju in Prague. After several miserable attempts Cass says "its dekuju, what's wrong with you?"
"Some say cup the balls, I say cup the boobs." -anonymous
Palicinky --> PHalicinky.
"...while people are fairly young and the musical composition of their lives is still in its opening bars, they can go about writing it together and exchange motifs...but if they meet when they are older, their musical compositions are more or less complete and every motif, every object, every word means something different to each of them." -Kundera
From the "Good Tea Room" menu: AFRICA, Kenya Fop: A tea from the wild black equatorial region of Africa, dark in the cup and dark in taste. For lovers of the scorching sun, hippopotami, and braids.
At the Rendevouz Cafe with Cass: we order a chocolate milkshake and chocolate pudding palicinky. What comes out is some berry something with whipped milk and berry palacinky. When trying the "milkshake" I ask Cass, "What is it?" Cass replies, "Dimatap!"
"...he loved her in his memories as well." -Kundera
"You're going outside with wet hair?? But its too cold..." -Tadeja
"Okay, you ready to go?" I said to Kasia. "Yes, yes! Oh, but wait, your hair, its still wet--you can't go out with wet hair!" -Kasia
"Oh, your hair is wet, you can get sick you know?" -Goschka
"Your hair is still wet. This is not good. My mom says this is a dangerous thing to do." -Christian
From Katie's book for class, "The Monk," by Matthew Lewis: "Away, impure ideas!"
"Blbicka."
"She turned to him. But Thomas did not respond. He kept his eyes on the road ahead. Having thus failed to scale the fence of silence between them, she lost all courage to speak." -Kundera
As Cass rips the Vienna and Bratislava sections from my Europe guidebook, Thomas says with a look of fear and disgust, "What are you doing?? Its a book! You can't rip pages out of a book!"
Cass: "Yeah, so. You want me to carry around all of fucking Europe when I only need 5 pages?"
From "Lets Go-Europe." Slovak Republic: Safety and security, tap water varies in quality and appearance, but is generally safe..the SR is friendly toward lone women travelers, though they may encounter stares.
Russia: Safety and Security, For medical emergencies, leave the country...
Katie goes into Rene's room and asks to borrow one of his REM cds. "Which one?" "The End of the World." "Bush won?"
At hostel in Budapest:
Christian: "What do you think they would say if they noticed later that there's a towel missing?"
Kelsey: "Hopefully nothing, because I took mine as well."
In trying to decide how many cups of chocolate milk are okay for me to drink in the morning (never knew i needed help deciding this, heh):
"Don't you agree?" -Christian
"No, there are no rules." -Cass
"Of course there are." -Christian
"hellooo?"
Written in my notebook and shown to Cass while sitting in a Hungarian restaurant (ah yes, the one that ripped us off): I feel like we are roadkill and the waiters are vultures circling around us.
"Oh Gyor!"
While standing in line at the Delvita grocery store Cass notices the condom display to our right. "Hmm, 'extra-safe,' what does that say about the rest of the kinds of condoms?"
"Why does everyone want to live in Delaware?" -Kelsey
"White, because 'caballo' is spanish for beach." -Jorg
Me to Kasia: "Do you have my camera?? Yes, you have it! Where is it?"
Kasia: "Between my bottoms!"
"It seems to me that if you place music (and books, probably, and films and plays and anything that makes you feel) at the center of your being, then you can't afford to sort out your love life, start to think of it as a finished product. You've got to pick at it, keep it alive and in turmoil, you've got to pick at it and unravel it until it all comes apart and you're compelled to start all over again. Maybe we all live life at too high a pitch, those of us who absorb emotional things all day, and as a consequence we can never feel merely content: we have to be unhappy, or ecstatically head-over-heels happy, and those states are difficult to achieve in a stable, solid relationship." -Nick Horby in High Fidelity
Kelsey: "That's one reason why I am afraid to have kids--what if one of them turns into a serial killer?"
Cass: "Or a republican!"
As Cass and I go into Kasia's home flat she says to us, "Please, take your clothes off!"
Clubs where a 16 year-old Eminem was clearing our glasses.
"Your nose is different than mine."
Cass: "I missed you today."
Kels: "I missed you too." I miss you whenever you aren't directly in front of me. (I go behind my door) Cass, where are you?? I miss you! I miss you!"
Cass: "Okay, okay. Just don't go hug a toilet or anything."
"In the movie 'Celebrity,' Woody Allen plays himself...and he is just marvelous." -Radim Marada, professor of Resurrecting Civil Society in Central Europe.
"It's all in the way you look at life- you too can have a story book life!" -Katie (who indeed does have a story book life!)
"You are a girl of many words, you can do it." -Katie
"A leaf falls and OJ hides in the closet." -Dad
Czech teacher: "Okay, so how many genders do we have in Czech?"
Richard: "Um, seven?"
"I love petrol, its very tasty!" -Kasia
Dark, crowed salt mine elevators.
Me gargling salt water in the bathroom. Kasia from her bed: Deeper! Wider! Longer!...Wider!! More water!! that's right!! again again!!
Strc prst skrz krk.
"So you are brave people, studying czech." -Katia, ucitelka
Kasia: "This dictionary today raped my pony. I don't want him to be in my room." I promptly threw it out of the room.
"Tonight you have spoken more czech than you have all semester." -Kasia
After spilling tea on her microbiology book Kasia says, "well, can't study from this. It's ill. Needs to dry."
"Less informed people like to live in illusions." -Marada
"Boobipher" = Christopher and Booboo = always together
"On the first day, somebody caught my eye. And on the third day I started writing in my journal mostly in broken Spanish." -Kelsey
"Do you have custard in America?" -Phoebe
"I don't know, is it like pudding?" -Kelsey
"What is pudding?" -Phoebe
"you know, chocolate stuff..in the jello family, but definitely not jello." -Kelsey
"No, not like that. It's yellow." -Phoebe
"oh yeah, the yellow stuff!" -Kelsey
"Yeah, what do you call it?" -Helen
"Custard." -Kelsey
Kat: "You know, I thought about bringing Bob home to Englan with me."
Kelsey: "And why didn't you?"
Kat: "Because I thought I might go to jail."