Once upon a time it was last Wednesday... (enter lilting music and a dreamlike fadeaway...are you still with me?)
Wednesday night we went to an Afghan restaurant as a group and, despite my apprehension, the food was delicious. After that we walked around for a bit, but eventually Me, Stacie, Kris and Geremy split off and headed back to the Kolej. We ended up buying a bottle o

Fast forward to Friday, where during our morning film class we watched an artsy Czech film that I found quite offensive actually. I probably missed the main message but there was a lot of overt sexual behaviour and religious blasphemy. Didn't really do it for me, needless to say. However, after that six of us headed for the train station to head to Vienna for the weekend. The train ride was an experience--two of the strong-minded leader types in our group butted heads the entire time as first we went to the wrong train station (who knew there was more than one in Prague?) and ended up in a car that was unbea

Fast forward again to Saturday night--the people from our group who took the bus arrived
ran-tan: can I just say that despite the horrible-ness of the train ride and I am happy that I did that, now I feel better about travelling around after...and it was a TRAIN, not a bus. Which really is the biggest trumping factor.
Anyway, Stacie and Melody and I had been shopping all day and so, decked out in our newest Austrian fashions, we joined the rest of the crew for what I have now lovingly dubbed as 'the night where everyone finally shows their real personalities'. Many of the girls in our group picked up some guys at the hostel and so by the time we headed to the first bar (called Pandora's Box, that should have been our first clue), our group had reached about twenty people. Stacie, Geremy, Kris and I managed to stay out of the way of the OLD BIKER MEN that apparently frequent the bar though, and found a pretty cool corner where the black light made my drink look pretty appealing. The bathroom was an experience, there was no girls washroom and the stall in the guys bathroon was pretty ghetto. I'm talking tiles-falling-off-the-walls-no toilet-seat ghetto. I got Kris to guard the door and when I came out he literally pushed me out because five old biker men had come in and were peeing. It was gross. Him and I also had a pretty good talk re: how much we miss our significant others back home. I checked my email a bunch of times on the trip. Still no word from Adam...soon enough I'm sure.
Eventually we migrated to another weird trance club. But I left pretty soon after that. I lost a lot of the girls to the texans, the australians and the guys from detroit. Very scandalous. Also on the walk there, a MOUSE crossed my path. Rodent sighting #1. I shudder at the ver

To make this entry EVEN LONGER, I'm going to fast forward to Sunday afternoon where Stacie, Geremy, Kris and I went PADDLE BOATING in the Danube River. Fun, but uneventful except we saw a swan and were almost attacked by a mallard. He swooped down!!
Add duck to the list of things I am afraid of.
With that, the Vienna trip came to a close. But not before taking the night train back to Prague. You back at home might think that a train in glamourous but let me dispel ANY of these romantic notions. "I can see why there was a murder on the Orient Express". We had to switch trains at one in the morning and sit in THIS station. A happy camper, I was not. I am sure you can fully understand the terror of this station. It was as though someone had dropped it down in the middle of nowhere. We (stupidly) explored the underground part of it, as we had a good 40 minute wait. There was no station! Just more, empty

Alas, despite all this, here I am safe and sound back 'home' in the Kolej. Vienna was magnificent, the shopping was lovely. I definately felt more alive there than I have in Prague. For me, you see, it's as though I have been trying to live partially in Vancouver, and partially in Prague at the same time. Now, though, with 'friends' here, a 'vacation' under my belt and the love of my life finally on the same continent as me, i think i've finally been able to dig in some roots here. Or at least a stable support system. And for the first time since the beginning of May I finally feel like maybe I am meant to do this.
Well thanks for reading the longest post of my life. I promise next time- short and funny!
Also, may I just reiterate now how much more I love German than Czech!?
"Entshudegun bitte"
Guten nacht,
jd
1 comment:
hey hey, well, another late comment from me, but i gotta say i know what you mean when you feel like you're half in prague and half in vancouver... that was how i've been feeling since i got back...
~jolly
(i'm signing this coz I don't want it to show up as anonymous like my other one, and i'm not gonna try to figure it out yet... perhaps in your later entries..)
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