Blogs from Czech Republic, Europe - page 230

Hello Everyone! Good news! Laila said yes to Fred at the wedding so that was a big relief. It was great to go back home for a month to see all our family, unfortunately we didn’t get to see as many of our friends, but we were quite busy helping with the wedding. Before we knew it we returned once again to Europe for a month, but this time we had a new side kick. Our great friend Alan was going to be touring with us for two weeks of traveling fun. The first time Alan visited Germany was with me on the same exchange back in ‘97 so we had always wanted to go back and have a little reunion trip—now it was finally happening! Germany was on the itinerary, naturally, as well as exploring ... read more

Ahh, spontaneous action. The awakening of the zombies. I was in Beroun for 2 weeks to participate in the Meet the Freak camp which has the ambitions of practicing inclusion, and collectively getting our act together to do performances. It was a special time for me in which 60 people were truly united in the space of the long Plesnik campground full of chatas(huts). At this place there were no pretenses of anonymity as you passed familiar faces to the campfire or back to the zachod. If you felt a touch lonely, you just walked 10 feet from your hut and joined the nearest soul or group to “chew the fat”. In other words, it was what a neighborhood could and should be. The most memorable moments for me were doing the actions at the ... read more

This past weekend, I went on a field trip to Southern Moravia, the southeastern part of the Czech Republic that borders Slovakia and Austria. It is a beautiful region of rolling hills, pine-covered mountains, pastoral villages, country estates, vineyards, and quaint mountain-top towns. We started the trip at 7:45 on Friday morning in a Soviet-era (AKA gross) bus: twenty students, a few staff members from the university, an art historian, and my Czech teacher. Everyone else went back to sleep when we started moving, but I had to stay awake to read poems for my atrocious postwar poetry class (more on my classes in a later blog...). I'm actually kind of glad I had the work because it forced me to stay awake and allowed me to see the beautiful Czech countryside. The towns we passed ... read more

Now heres a city with no morals! But i must say im having fun, hookers and pushers aside of course, man they bug my. Found a club which is five stories high, each level a different sort of music. Everything from techno, hip hop and 80's. Supposed to be the biggest club in europe. Eaten really well here as there are some phenominal resteraunts. Last night for three people we spent 200 at a seafood resteraunt. Oysters, lobster the whole hog (so to speak). Man it was lush. But there's more to Prague than partying. There's some really cool buildings and an Astronomical clock that no one can read. Off to Berlin (im sick off TRAINS!!!) xx... read more

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