Prague: A Summary of Sorts

Art papers are no fun, let me tell you that much. Our final one will be due when we get to Oxford, I assume, and that one has a max word count of 5,000. =( Makes me a sad panda. And apparently the average grade for our art class is a B, which is far from what my original understanding was, so I might actually end up hurting my GPA on this summer program. Go figure. Oh well, it's helping my resume right? haha.

Before I go on to tell you all about Prague, I figure I'll share another picture, now that they're all starting to hit facebook. This one was taken on our last night in Florence, and in it you can see (from left to right) Sydney, Me, Carol, and Lindsay.



Cool stuff, right?


Okay, so, Prague. I'll start with yesterday, the 14th of June.
We started the morning off with classes. Music was interesting, as usual. I slept through art, as usual. (I understand now why the average for the class is a B.)

We met down in the lobby immediately afterwards, where Sally and Cristy (our group leaders, in case you don't recognize the names) gave us our Subway tickets. The subway here in Prague is much better than the one in Rome, it can't be more than a few years old. But once we were in the center of town we split up for lunch with the promise of meeting back at 14:00 to walk to the Modern Art Museum. Well for lunch the usual 5 of us wandered into a nearby mall, and sat down at a restaurant named L.A. Finger food. Note to self....Czech American food is....not so good. haha.

But we caught up with Lewcock at 14:00 and started walking to the museum, which was a good ways away from where we started. The walk wasn't bad though, we crossed over the river in the city and got a really good view of things.

The museum was...interesting. Modern art is cool, I think, but only for the first hour or so. After walking around the museum for 90 minutes, I was ready to leave. We were given 2 and a half hours to walk around the exhibit, and I can understand why, given its size, but as I've experienced with art, after about an hour I just can't focus on anything anymore. It's like studying: it's good, but if you do it for too long you stop learning. At least that's how I feel about it.

We came back to the Hotel for dinner, and we ate in one of the restaurants on the ground floor. During the meal, Kate, Carol and Lindsay bet Sydney and I that we couldn't go 2 hours without arguing, and so, stubborn as we both are, we took up the bet.

It went down today, during our walking tour of the city, and naturally Sydney and I won. It wasn't even that hard. haha. But at the end of the walking tour, the usual group of us followed Lewcock and Ulrich to the Hotel Europa, which Lewcock claimed had Europe's best cup of hot chocolate. After trying it, I would probably agree. It was delicious. After that, I followed Ulrich to a nearby cigar shop, just to check things out.

And from there we got back on the subway and came back to the Hotel, which is where I am now. It's downpouring right now, so I think our original plan of grocery shopping has gone out the window. Instead we'll probably end up eating in that same restaurant as last night, or maybe just get some food from the hotel bar. Who knows?

Tomorrow we head to Munich, which, needless to say, I am very excited about.
I don't have much text to update you guys with, but I've been told that a bunch of pictures of me just hit facebook, so I'll post a handful of them here for you guys to enjoy.

Hope everything is going well.