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Published: November 27th 2007
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The cool part about lending your camera to your roommate is that they can take pictures of you. This is me bonding with A Czech horse. he was actually trying to tell me that he would rather live in California where it isn't so cold, but before he could finish the group moved on and I had to leave him. The weekend after mom left I had a class trip to Prague. You may not remember this but I had actually been in Prague two weekends before with mom. The main difference, besides the company, was that for the field trip we took the train. This SUCKED. Now I know that I do not like long never-ending train rides. We arrived really late that Thursday. This is actually the same Thursday that mom left on. Everything happened so fast. This is why I am behind on my blogging. Sorry!
The first night in Prague a group of us went out exploring a little to find some dinner. It was strange seeing the city at night with a bunch of people from school after having explored it so recently with mom.
The next morning we met up with the entire group and headed out on our tour with the professor. She took us around to mostly the same things I had seen with mom but it was kind of cool seeing them again. This first day the plan had been to check out the Jewish Quarter but the next day there was going to be a giant Neo-Nazi demonstration in the Jewish
Mike
This is what happens when you lend your camera to your roommate. You get pictures of Christmas decorations.....and Mikes face. Quarter so we weren’t allowed to go there as a group. Instead after the tour had broken up a group of us went to go check it out on our own. Since the demonstration wasn’t until the next day it was really pretty normal. We bought the ticket required to check out all the different Jewish things such as the cemetery and the synagogues. This was fairly interesting stuff but since it was later in the day my energy was draining so we finished up and headed back to the hostel.
At the hostel I decided to take a nap before dinner. While I was napping, everyone went out to dinner without me. This was a bummer. Turns out no one else was napping as they had said they would. I took this as a sign and went to bed early.
The next day we toured around the castle area. We watched the changing of the guards which was a big deal. It was pretty exciting. It involved a lot of marching and funny music. I believe that this big production only occurs at the 12 o’clock changing. If you’re there, this is worth seeing.
It was interesting to see
Horses
The horses in Prague, like the horses in Rome, have ponchos. But these look almost more like down jackets. Spoiled horses. the difference between when I went with mom and when I went with my class. The weekend mom and I were in Prague it was the last weekend of “Tourist Season” so there were still tourist things available, however when I went with my class a lot more things were closed. I think the time mom and I went was really quite perfect, we got the benefits of tourist season without the masses of people.
That night we went out to dinner as a group. On the way to dinner it began to snow.
It was so incredible watching it snow in this crazy old European city.
After dinner I walked one of the kids from the group back to the hostel. My only task was to make sure I got him back alive. As soon as we got to the hostel he said, “I feel better now, I’m going back” and he turned around and ran away. I took this as another sign and decided to call it an early night again.
The next morning, despite my early night, I had a migraine so I went to the train station after checking out of the hostel, and took a
Graves
This is the Jewish cemetary. it actually wasn't nearly as packed full of graves as some of the other ones I have seen. nap in the waiting area.
I feel like this is kind of a lame entry but really it was just all of the same things I saw with mom, just colder.
But I do have an anecdote for you…here goes:
So I’m sitting on the train on the way back from Prague typing away on my lap top trying to write my Berlin entry. I decided to take a break and rest a little, so I turned to put my feet up on the empty seat next to me. As I turned my legs underneath the table I hit my knee really hard against the table support. It hurt SO BAD. So there I was sitting on a train with my knee throbbing, resting my head in my hands. Then……the next thing I know all I am seeing is black and someone is smacking my face going “WAKE UP! WAKE UP!” while other people are yelling “KRISTIN!!!!”. Turns out there is a spot on both knees and both elbows that when hit hard enough can cause a person to pass out (And potentially vomit, but this didn’t happen to me). I guess I was sitting there resting my head
On The Train
This is a shot out the window of the train on the way to Prague. At one point we even saw a rainbow, but I couldn't get a good picture of it. when I just passed out entirely and hit the floor of the train. It must have been quite exciting to watch as the entire car of the train was standing around looking. The poor guy in the row across the aisle from me had pulled me up and started smacking me in the face to wake me up. Now I can officially say that I have passed out on a train in the Czech Republic. How many people can say that?
Actually the most embarrassing part of this story though, besides having to explain that I passed out from hitting my knee, was the rug burn I got on my face from hitting the floor face first.
The moral of this story is: if you hit your knee or elbow really hard and it hurts like CRAZY, sit down on the floor quickly so you don’t fall as far. Last time this happened to me I was standing at the top of some stairs. I don’t recommend it. I do recommend Prague.
The End
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