Music of the Night

While I love having 3 roommates and 2 more flatmates (seriously, I love it), getting to sleep when three of the four of us in one room are sick proves quite difficult. I almost wrote this blog last night because of the snoring, but I did fall asleep eventually. I apologize for the delay in a blog update. My life has found a groove, so it feels less exciting, "bloggable" if you will, of late. However, this weekend included a couple of good tourist activities. Descriptions and updates will come first. Pictures later.

On Saturday, Jenweb, Leah, and I took a bus to Cesky Krumlov, a small Bohemian town about 3 hours South of Prague. As a testament to the "cheap life" as people here call it, I spent an equivalent to $16 getting there and back, including a store-bought water. It had been described to us as the quintessential Bohemian village, and that's precisely what it was. It has been on UNESCO's World Heritage list since 1992. Unlike Prague, it was spared the "ugly Communist buildings" and has preserved all of its Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque architecture. Not that I know enough of each to guarantee that my pictures include evidence, but alas:).

That night, we met up with friends who had been watching the England/Scotland rugby match: apparently a big deal:). Then we went to a joint going away/birthday party for another group of friends of one of my roommates. She technically lives with a close friend, who's Czech, from her study abroad undergrad experience, but spends 75% of the time at our apt for various (understandable) reasons.

The pub was the smokiest I've experienced yet, and the pubs are all pretty damn smoky. The minute I walked in, I was choking. Combined with my impending headcold, I counted down the coughing and sneezing until midnight when we could leave. Lucklily, there's this threshold of how late we can stay out. If anyone's taking the train home, they have to catch the last one by 12:30. If we're all walking, then we can close a place at 5am, or whenever, but I also have the easy option of walking home alone if need be. One beauty of multiple roommates is always having someone either to go out with or to go home. And I'm the lucky one who doesn't have to go to class, so I have a guaranteed hour minimum of empty apartment 3-4 times a week. I have yet to go stir crazy, but Leah and Jenweb are feeling it, I believe.

Yesterday we went on the Jewish tour in Prague. It was really great. More to come about that, too.

Good news!! I had an email from the ED at La Strada, the THB NGO, today, asking me to come in for a meeting/interview on how I can help them with fundraising. I'm excited!!

Searching for a paying job chugs slowly but surely. I'm committed to submitting 5 resumes per day.

I'm headed to Munich next week to visit my friend Tobi. Also exciting!