Blogs from Europe - page 13063

Geo: 51.5002, -0.126236Met Jen this morning at Liverpool Street and we went to Brick Lane Market. Was average and not really our thing. So we caught the tube to Covent Garden. That was much better. We looked at the stores. Bought some fudge, earrings and matching necklace and a smoothie. Found a little cafe for lunch. Then browsed Oxford St. Used the Internet to buy a flight out of London on Wednesday and book some accommodation. Said goodbye to Jen and will catch up with her again when I return to London.... read more

Today was yet another exciting day of class, although slightly better than yesterday. The groups working on the Branding Presentation for the Czech Republic merged, so I was able to work with slightly more competent people. The program itself is kind of a mess--there is definitely a difference between the US education system and the CR education system. The Charles University students put together two good presentations to familiarize the American students with the Brands CR and USA. This was fine, but we all felt kind of dumb since we had nothing prepared for them. We felt that they had done all of this research on branding the US and we had done absolutely none on the CR. Anyway, when it came time to work on final presentations, the Charles University professor really just wanted us ... read more

Yesterday was pretty uneventful during the day. But at night we went to the Champs-Elysées and walked around before dropping in on a friend of Garance's who was working. Then we had a drink in a café and some dessert. I forgot what it was called. But then the friend, Gaelle, dropped by and I spoke in French almost the whole time with her and Garance said later that I held my own pretty well so I was happy. For some reason my comprehension jumped yesterday...or maybe it was just that I noticed it was better. Who knows? Anyway, on the way home there were jerks throwing firecrackers onto the streets between people's legs and this guy behind us kept yelling 'attention!!' (watch out) because so many people almost stepped on them. I was ready to ... read more

So a quick update: We jetted out of Egypt pretty quickly after a overnight train, a plane ride, a sleep in an airport, and another plane ride we landed back in London....home of Shawn's favourite metro system.....we spent a couple days in London saw Big Ben, Buckingham Palace, the London bridge but decided it was way too expensive to stay there for a month so we headed to the nearest cheapest place....AMSTERDAM!!! (not our first choice we thought we'd do Ireland....but that turned out to be way to expensive too) So here we are hanging otu in amsterdam....we've seen the van gogh museum and the heinken experience.....did alot of walking around....we are both pretty poor so we can't do too much! So were off to London tomorrow...going to a few ARt galleries when we get there ... read more

The train ride to Omsk was decent, my final full day on the train. I was in a full compartment again and I would be the first one off. It was a woman and two men this time, the men related and the the woman on her own. I was the only one with english, so it was another ride of reading and smiliing, though the lady did feed me a bit. It was some nice scenery that final day, and the weather started heating up again, so smiles on my face. When I arrived in Omsk, it was morning and very hot. I decided that I would try my luck with a cab driver as the map said 3km to the town from the train station. As soon as they knew where I was going, ... read more