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The Argentian born Sicilian sitting next to me just said something about that, so I thought that'd be a fun title for today. So I left off in Prague. The 2nd, we went to Prague Castle and wandered around, despite that fact that it was absolutely freezing. The first thing we saw was the Lobowitz musuem which is a musuem about the Lobowitz family. They were a family of princes in Prague for about 6 centuries and incredibly rich and powerful. Their musuem was interesting, just because they had Beethoven's original manuscripts for his 4th and 5th symphonies because one of the princes was Beethoven's patron. Other than that, it was basically just a family history musuem. The rest of the Prague Castle was an effort of the Czech to prove how old Prague is. We ... read more

In their guide to Prague they refer to "lunacy" and festivities in Prague's Old Town square (not it's real name, but there's no way I can type the Czech) on New Year's Eve, and everyone had told use the Prague was an awesome place to spend New Years, and now I feel like lunacy was so the right word. It turns out that fireworks and firecrackers are not only legal here; they are sold with reckless abandon, so in the tiny windy streets of Prague teenage idiots from every country that has the money to get to Prague for New Years were setting off anything that just needed a lighter. We almost got singed a couple times, but it was more important to dodge the firecrackers because the noise was worse than anything echoing off the ... read more

I've had a very long day, without any real reason too. And we actually only had the waffle portion of the title. I did, by the way, manage to get on a train yesterday with relative easy to come to Brussels to meet Kira, through the first train I wanted to catch wasn't running because the train in front of it broke, so I just caught the next one. It's about 3 hours by train from Amsterdam to Brussels and I used my hour in the train station to buy some much needed shampoo that was confiscated by the Russian airport authorities. Kira got to Brussels late last night because her bus from London was three hours late , but we still went out and wandered around St. Katherine's square and got some tapas. We're staying ... read more

So boys and girls, I've been on a bit of a hiatus. Or my computer has. My lovely life-sourse of a computer has been on the fritz lately so when I get on the internet it's been the take care of high priority items like emailing my mom and checking facebook ;). I've got a couple entries that've written, so I'll get them up here back dated soon and everyone'll be nicely caught up before the whirlwind adventure begins. Everyone happy? Good, you better be, cause you don't really have a choice. Everyone around here is getting ready to go home, seeing as the people from this semester leave next week. We have finals next week and everyone is thinking about packing up and going home for the holidays. Actually, one person has already left, but ... read more

I'm sitting at a cafe with free wifi with some friends, one of whom is talking to her brother over skype. Her brother is apparently making teradctyl noises (I don't know why), and she just said, "I like the inquistive teradactyl noise." Aside from that, I've had a very chill week, filled with re-adjusting to St. Petersburg. It snowed for the first time on Friday and it's now beautiful and freezing in the city. I've only indulged in a few things of winter preparation. Yesterday I ventured out to the book market, which was interesting, but expensive for a market. I have very little news except that I'm loving the snow; I'm sure that will end long before it melts. I hope you're all doing well. From Russia With Love... read more

Also can I say that I seriously disagree with the Olympic Committee? So my experience in Sochi was greatly tainted by the weather this week, but let's be honest, weather will probably affect the Olympics too. It rained a lot while we were there. We had a couple days of sun, but it wasn't nearly what we were told it was going to be and very disappointing. But I can take you through the week. Monday was the first day of hardcore rain. Leah and I slept late and by the time we had woken up, Andrea was there. Andrea wanted to see the town so we took the marshrutka to Sochi (our hostel was halfway between Adler and Sochi and therefore a pain in the ass) and wandered around for a little bit. We ended ... read more

Yes, I know I'm a day early, but I don't know if I'm going to update tomorrow. So remember Guy Fawkes tomorrow. And since I'm writing from the world of political repression, celebrate dissidents, though let's not kill anyone, ok friends? Ok, happy subjects. I'm in Sochi and it's warm and pretty and I'm wearing flip flops. Basically it's fantastic compared to life in Peter or Moscow. It wasn't quite warm enough to go to the beach today, but hopefully it will get there at some point this week because I'm determined to go back to Peter with a tan. Even if I don't, the little bit extra sun is nice. Getting here was a pain in the ass I must say. It shouldn't have been that big of a problem, but we pushed it took ... read more