Just the "Czech" Please!

Soooooo Lots of news!

First: VIVE LA GRÈVE!! so the french love their strikes. Today there's a transportation strike going on which means the metro is basically non-existent along with the buses and the Commuter trains. This was awesome on Monday when we found out that we didnt have classes today.....THREE DAY WEEK!!! however, not so awesome when we found out it started at 8pm last night so all our plans of moroccan dinner and going out were shattered. However, Anna and I still enjoyed some wonderful wine by the canal since it was a beautiful night out!

Secondly: Anna and I came to the realization today that France doesn't have thanksgiving.....now you might be saying "well duhh" BUT this is not just about not having a holiday filled with turkey, pumpkin pie and American football...this is about Christmas! and the fact that here we get to start celebrating a whole MONTH earlier. No holidays to get in the way so from October-December it is a total christmas party! SWEEEEEEEEEEEET!!!!

Thirdly: My family is coming in a WEEK (plus 2 days)!!! and i am soooo excited!

Finally: PRAHA! oh mon dieu. What a weekend!

Friday: We had to up at the crack of dawn to catch our flight from Orly and we were off to the land of the Czechs. Once we arrived we made our way to the Hostel which was totally awesome. Their "claim to fame" is that they are the most multicolored hostel in central europe.....yeah weird huh? But the place was GREAT! Totally clean, very secure and we got a free welcome czech beer.....who could ask for more. Oh and our room was a 17 bed mixed sex room....quite the adventure but totally worth it.
That day we did lots of walking and site seeing and we even got BAGELS! Yes there is an american bagel style place where we enjoyed some wonderful bagels with Philadelphia Cream Cheese. Then we did lots of wandering and finally ended up at a restaurant for a dinner of Czech specialties! For me this was Beef Goulash and "paste" dumplings....SOOO GOOD! We finished the meal with some wonderful apple strudel and chocolate cake.

side note: in prague they give you bread on the table...however it is not free. If you touch it you pay for it.....thus the phrase of the weekend "DONTTOUCHTHEBREAD" *spoken very quickly and harshly* Also one restaurant told us "its part of the cover charge, like the ketchup and the salt" so apparently you pay for everything in the Czech Republic.

Saturday: Prague Castle and more siteseeing/wandering around. It was another night of Czech-ish food and some of the best fruit drinks we have ever had!
After another long day we decided to hit up the FIVE story club in Prague. We tried some absinthe (pointless and just tasted really bad) and hit the club. We ended up on the "black" floor (hip/hop) for most of the night with a little house music mixed in. It was great until the end of the night when we were attacked with the worst verbal assault EVER!

Story: As we are leaving and talking to some American guys we met some Eastern European guy turns around and says "Stop being so fucking loud! Thats why 911 happened because you fucking Americans are so loud!" Immediately we are appalled by his comments and dont know what to say other than OH MY GOD! then as he walks away he goes "Im glad 911 happened you sluts" (Mind you we are wearing jeans and tshirts to this club)
Basically we were really pissed and just wanted to get home

Sunday: EXHAUSTION STRIKES! we get up and enjoy our complimentary breakfast of cocoa puffs and then head out for another day in prague.....we try to find Kafka's grave and are unsuccessful. we walk through the part of prague you arent supposed to see. we almost collapse from starvation before eating some AMAZING pasta and HORRIBLE "nachos". and then we sat in a coffee house for a ridiculously long time before choosing to get pizza and apple strudel to go and head back to the hostel.

side note: in prague they have a bus system and you have to buy tickets and then validate them on the bus....well we decided that rather than keep buying tickets we wouldn't validate because we had yet to see anyone check.......bad news bears.
As we are taking the bus home saturday we get "webbed" by the spiderman of czech transportation police and are hit with a 500ck fine each (only 25 usd but still!) So needless to say. When in Praha-- VALIDATE!

another food story: EURODOGS! the first thing we saw when we got to prague were these things called eurodogs, basically they are hotdogs that are put inside a bun that just has a hole for the hotdog rather than a slit all the way down the side. They were magnificent.
At the end of our trip i said "well we may not have gotten to see all the sites but we did get to eat all the food we wanted to!" oh what a culinary adventure!

Sunday/Monday: Well since our taxi to the airport was coming at 4am we decided it would be a great idea to just not sleep. Some of the girls went back to the club but Caitlin and I hung out at marabou, ate our apple pie and chatted about the ridiculousness of the weekend. At 3am we all waited around looking like zombies for our taxi. We arrived at the airport very early and i proceeded to nap across 4 seats in the terminal trying not to look homeless. I couldn't sleep on the plane but was amused by anna's half-asleep tantrums with the guy in front of her.
Monday was the most miserable day of my life. I tried napping and then had a museum visit with Cecile before writing another essay for school. it was just bad.Anyway now i am enjoying my four day weekend even though im stuck within walking distance of my apartment due to the greve for today! The weekend consists of a wine tasting, le malade imaginaire at le comedie francaise AND le salon du chocolate on sunday to taste lots and lots of chocolates!!!!

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