Prague.2

Woah 2 blog posts in a month?? I’m on a roll. :-P Lets see where did I leave off… I think the trip to the country. We took the train about an hour out of the city to a small town where we went to the restaurant of the mom of a girl who did the course last month (with some of my roommates). After the train it was about a 30-45 minute walk through the woods and a field and it was so beautiful. My camera died shortly into the trip and I still haven’t gotten pictures from my roommate yet. The food was delicious… I had a meat roll (filled with… more meat, and cabbage) with dumplings (Czech dumplings are basically like bread) and then for dessert a crepe/pancake thing with blueberry yogurt inside. Um, so.good. The country was so beautiful though, and actually felt like I was in Europe. The next day (Sunday 14) Sally, Amanda and I went to the zoo! Always a good time. Evidently the Prague zoo is one of the top 10 in the world. The day we were there, there were over 10,000 visitors. (That is not a typo. When we got there the ticker was at 8,00 something and when we left just over 10,000.) And it felt like it. :-P Lots of people and kids and dogs (people bring their dogs EVERYWHERE here). We got too hot and tired and only ended up walking through about half. We found a really delicious pizzeria with the nicest owner on our way home. Then came another week of classes and teaching… nothing spectacular must have happened because I don’t remember it.

The next weekend I went down to a farmer’s market on the river and wandered around the city all afternoon. I also tried to find the church I wanted to visit and was unsuccessful. That weekend was a real low point emotionally, full of self-loathing and the urge to cry every hour or so. Last week went by so.fast., which was great because I was definitely not excited about it. :-P (No really, it feels like last weekend was about 2 days ago.) Nothing real spectacular happened… besides going out to a delicious Irish pub for a roommate’s birthday. Last night (Saturday) we went out to Mexican and it was pretty good. Today I walked around the city again (also tried to find the church… you’d think they’d have better directions for a TRAIN STATION… *ahem*) and took a lot of pictures. I saw the TV tower (with the creepy baby sculptures) and walked up to the castle. I stopped along the castle steps (or whatever it’s called) and had a coffee (which wasn’t that great but the view was) and walked across Charles bridge and through Old Town Square back to the metro.

This week is our LAST WEEK of the course and I’m SO EXCITED. I’ve learned so much and it’s been a good experience but it’s getting on my nerves. Teaching has gone well (better than I expected)- all my lessons have been successful and I’ve been told I have a great rapport with students when I’m up there. It just doesn’t excite me and I think if I had to do it for a living I’d hate it. Plus the job market really sucks here… I know of 2 people who were offered jobs and then basically told “nevermind” when they went to sign the contracts. Prague is nice but I wouldn’t want to live here. I also don’t think I’m independent enough to live completely on my own in a place where I don’t know anybody. I’m also not very good at traveling on my own but too late to realize that now… :-P So I’m gonna go back home and try to find a big girl job and move out. (What else is new, you might ask.)

Anyways… I’m gonna be homeless in a week so maybe I should come up with a plan? ;-)