It's beginning to feel like fall.

Actually, the subject is wrong. In Prague, we've been getting 70 degree weather with clear skies one day and the next day highs of 55 with pouring rain. It's very confusing.

I've been so terrible at updating, but there is always something to do so I find myself with not a lot of blogging time. Even now I'm looking anxiously at the clock, knowing I have only ten minutes or so to get something out into the world of the internet before I have to head of to class (Kafka to Kundera). To borrow some lines from John Mayer:

I'm writing you
to catch you up on places I've been
...
didn't have a camera by my side this time
hoping I would see the world with both my eyes
maybe I will tell you all about it when I'm
in the mood to lose my way with words

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That's not entirely true, either - I did document many events in photo format, but I haven't got time to upload them now (eek).

I dont remember the last time I posted so I'll give a general run down of what's been going on. Last Thursday, my friends and I ventured out to Rapture again. Rapture is an "indie electroclash dance party!!!" Right up my alley (although I'm still a bit unsure of what electroclash is, but it seems to be electronica rock from what I can gather). I ended up meeting a boy who is friends with Claire from William and Mary!!! What a small world! Apparently he moved to Prague after he graduated and got a job with an American marketing company based in Prague. Very cool.

Friday I slept in late and sort of lounged around for a while. Then I got a letter from the czech post office (all in czech) informing me that I had a package that they were holding hostage (although if i could translate it literally I dont think those were the exact words they used). Anyways, I walked down to the post office- it was a pretty long walk, but it was a nice day- and had an extremely crazy adventure. Once i got to the post office, I learned that- like the letter- nothing nothing was written in english, so instead I had to match words between my letter and signs and about 45 minutes later I finally had my package. It was the boots I ordered!! They are really awesome and I've been wearing them around a bit which I guess is kind of silly since it isn't cold enough for snow boots yet. Friday night I made dinner with Olivia, Mikey and Gina (everyone else was out of town for the weekend!) and stayed in and read. It was really nice.

Saturday, Olivia, Gina and I went to the base of an old statue of Stalin. The story is fairly amusing, actually. They erected this HUGE statue of Stalin (his nose was as big as I am) overlooking the city. Then they decided that maybe Stalin wasn't so great after all and they should take the statue down. But, given the Czech mindset and inability to admit they've made a mistake, they decide to take it down secretly. As if no one would notice that a huge towering statue had disappeared... they ended up putting a big tarp around it like they were doing construction on it. When they took the tarp down six months later, the statue was gone. The base was way too large to be taken apart without TNT- but TNT would have attracted attention so they left the base and now there is a big pendulum on it. The base offers beautiful views of the city- I got a couple of nice shots. Saturday night, Gina, Mikey, Olivia and I went to the Globe bookstore (where I beat everyone in Scrabble, woot woot). Afterwards, Jordan showed up and we stopped by a few bars in Nardoni Trida.

Sunday, I went to this amazing coffee shop that Chad and I had stumbled across teh week before. I plan to take every visitor to this shop. It is called "Dobre Traffika" which translates to "Good tobacco." They sell cigars in the front, but over all the place isnt smoky (and is also mostly free of tourists!). Very cool. Sunday night, I got everyone addicted to The Mighty Boosh. I am infinitely happy about that.

Yesterday was Forum 2000 and I'm really going to have to write another post about that entirely as I've run out of time. It was amazing- so cool!! I'm going to another panel this afternoon - Women and Gender in Peacekeeping. The one yesterday was Freedom and Responsibility in the Media.

Last night I went to see Stereo Total. It ruled.

more later!!!

xoxox