2400 Kc as a month rent in panelak was maybe some 10 years ago. Even only a 30m flat is difficult to find below 10 000 including energy and water costs. The rents are comparable to austrian Vienna now (but in Vienna one earns 3times more ;-)
You're going to have to clarify... I'm not quite sure what you're talking about Josh... you're going to have to make yourself more clear... about the "
Hmmmm" thing.
I like how you used "hmmmmmmm." in the picture of the statue of the thing from Harry Potter.
Great pictures Kiddo- I love them all! Can't wait to see the rest of them in Myrtle Beach this summer!
back i absolutely love reading these blog posts, but it really makes me miss you! when will you be back?
i hung out with d crowder last night. he did a concert at a local church and stayed after to chill with whoever wanted to stay. way cool!
Sorry about the generalizations I did focus on the Panelak of the communist era in my blog, so I'm sorry if anyone was offended by my comments. I have visited some nicer suburban areas in Prague, and I understand there are a lot of great places to live in the sidlistes. However, some happen to be the poorest and roughest neighborhoods here. I only meant to provide people unfamiliar with Prague on a short lesson about the communist regime in Czechoslovakia. Sorry if I offended anyone.
Panelaks I'd recommend that you visit other areas of panelaks in the city. I am living in a panelak now (in Modrany) and find the area to be a welcome relief from the city center. Your overgeneralizations of the "ghetto" should be taken very lightly. I always think it's funny to hear views, like yours, that paint the panelaks to be such depressing, oppresive places--this view is wrong. While there are some less desirable places, these are still "homes" to a lot of people. Before you give a short lesson again, I suggest you do a little more research.
Wow- those pictures look so good, where did you get them? I mean, they could be on postcards or something, don't you think ;-)
Vondel Park- definately one of the best days of my life.
no but seriously, my favorite part of this entry is where you talk about mocha fraps.
ps: krista says hi & she´s currently working on a project about the medios de comunicación. what a crazy! oh, and she´s sad your penpal scheme has been reduced to blog updates. and no emails from her. sidenote from me: you guys suck. :D
best quote eva "The strangest thing I've tried to snort? My father. I snorted my father, he was cremated and I couldn't resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow. My dad wouldn't have cared, it went down pretty well, and I'm still alive."
BEST BLOG EVA Hey. so seriously. I am in the university lab right now (you know how quiet it gets in here) and I saw your caption of me looking like keith richards visiting the parthenon and i was drinking water out of me old trusty nalgene smerrr and i spit the water out onto my lap and laugh so loud, but only one like stop motion chuckle and seriously EVERYONE everyone turns around and looks at me. It was so Kafka-esque. Great post girlfriend, I really enjoyed it!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hey Anonymous Wow, for finding me on google, you seem to know me pretty well, or understand my humor at least. Yes, I do think that Facebook is the devil, hate to disappoint. Next time leave a name or something... anonymous is so elusive.
sunny mexico eh? Hey Anni, its good to hear from you, I'm glad you like the blog, pics and all. I'm jealous of your sunny weather, but I had my Spring Break this week and went ot the Greek islands and laid on the beach, so I got some sun in. Can't wait to see you guys in the fall? Are you or Krista planning on taking Spanish Language with Bellos?
Dinosaurs are sweet, but what I actually love to look at in natural history museums are the exstinct mammals. Weird half-armadillo-half-giraffe things that were apparently walking around Iowa back in the day... Or Dayton Ohio. And the hoards of exstinct marine life, brachiopods that looked like clams but were more closely related to starfish. Anywho, I am glad that google finally led me to a blog of yours. I've already made the assumption that you have some objection on principle to the douche-baggery of facebook, but I'm delighted to have found this.
Still seems like it would be better than those toilets that flush automatically... They freak me out! It's like whoooooosh - omigod - what the frilly heck?! - oh yes, annoying self-flushing toilet, nuclear powered or something, flushing my waste all the way to China.
jen! great pictures (i´m uber jealous you could get them to upload!)... i especially enjoyed the beauty and the beast captions on the last entry!!! we miss you down here in sunny méxico. krista (are you guys even still penpals?) is doing a project in her econ class on los medios de comunicación, and she´s ... naturally ... verrrrrry excited about it. what a nerd! see you back at valpo in the fall? ¡adios! nos vemos.
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2400 Kc as a month rent in panelak was maybe some 10 years ago. Even only a 30m flat is difficult to find below 10 000 including energy and water costs. The rents are comparable to austrian Vienna now (but in Vienna one earns 3times more ;-)