The in-between

See, I told you I would be back soon. However, this post won't be quite as interesting as the last one because it's just going to cover the week and weekend following Liverpool, during which nothing really all that exciting happened. So, here we go.

As I already mentioned we got back from Liverpool on Tuesday with just enough time to get to class. So I went to class and managed to fall asleep multiple times throughout it because I was so tired. I went back to my room, and instead of taking a nap I had to do some homework, as well as email the hostel we had stayed in because I lost my camera on the trip. Well, I say lost, but I don't really ever misplace things, so I think that someone made away with it at some point during the trip. I really wish that people who stole cameras would at least be kind enough to leave the memory cards behind. Cameras are replaceable, but pictures are not, and I lost a lot of pictures that I hadn't been able to upload yet...particularly Vienna pictures. I was pretty upset. So, the last half of my trip won't be as documented as the first half. Although a couple of people have been really gracious to let me come sift through their pictures and pick out some ones that I would like to have. And there is always facebook, so I think I am covered. Anyway, getting back on track. Wednesday I also had class, and then after class I can't really remember doing anything so I probably just went back to my room and hung out there for the rest of the night. I might have gone to the supermarket. I wouldn't have had any food since I took a lot of it with me on my trip cause it would have gone bad otherwise. Thursday I had class again (Art & Architecture), and we went on kind of a "summary" walk around Prague, reflecting on some of the architectural styles that we had been learning about. After class was over, and we ended the walk on Charles Bridge, I walked to the closet metro station and on the way discovered a really awesome park that I think I mentioned somewhere a bit earlier. It was really gorgeous, and so I made a mental note to go back there at one point and do some reading or something outside...since the weather is starting to get really nice, and more importantly, stay that way. I took the metro back to the dorm, grabbed my computer and a book, and headed back out to do some blogging and catch up on some reading. So, I spent the majority of Thursday afternoon blogging about Vienna in a cafe and then reading outside in a beautiful park...very European :) My roommate had a friend arrive on Thursday to visit her, and she stayed with us over the weekend. Her name was also Jessica, so it made for an interesting weekend. :)

To be honest, nothing really that exciting happened over the weekend. After Liverpool, I just wanted some down time to chill out and relax. That being the case, I spent the rest of the weekend avoiding going out. I spent most of Friday doing nothing in particular, and then Friday night that I just went in and sat in Robbie and Vaughn's room and hid so that I wouldn't get talked into going out. I usually pride myself on being pretty resilient to the urgings of others once I have made up my mind about something, but the girls here have some kind of super power that gets inside my head. Nine times out of ten I will get talked into going out, and it is becoming a problem. So, I knew I just needed to avoid them until they left. Robbie and Vaughn weren't doing anything that night either, so I just went and hung out with them, and we had a really good time just talking about life in general until about 1 a.m. Then I went safely back to my room and went to bed. On Saturday, I again didn't really do anything to exciting. I did a little more blogging during that day, as well as some homework that I was trying to get out of the way before the next week, which was actually quite busy. I did have dinner with Robbie and Vaughn at a Mexican place that they had heard was pretty good. I though it was actually really good, but also pretty expensive. We walked around town for a little bit after that and then headed back to the dorm for the night. Sunday I woke up a bit earlier than usual because Carly and I had to work on our presentation on psychopathic personalities which we had to present on Monday. We used it as an excuse to watch a little bit of criminal minds as well...I mean who wouldn't :) Then I headed out to church. I have to say I don't get to church as often as I would like to because I travel a lot on the weekends, but on the weekends that I do get to go it is usually the highlight of that weekend. I really like going to this church because they usually have pretty good worship, and this Sunday was no exception. I can't remember if I mentioned this in an earlier post, but I found out that Chris is a fantastic guitar player...and I mean really, really good. He demonstrated his Spanish guitar repertoire for us one Tuesday night at home group, and I couldn't believe how good he was. Not to mention he fact that he has a phenomenal singing voice. So, this Sunday he was actually leading worship and singing a lot of songs that I am familiar with from back in the States, and it was just a really good worship time for me. I had to rush from church though to make a performance for my theater class. Which started like 30 minutes after church ended, and I had to find it as well, so I was a bit rushed. The performance was called Pixy, and it was probably the worst performance I have ever seen. I really didn't have anything positive to say about it afterwards, but half of that could be because I didn't understand what happened after the first 15 minutes of the show. After the show a couple of us from the class who went to go see it went to a nearby bar and we were like, "what the heck just happened?" There was in our group a girl that spoke Czech, and she pretty much explained that whole thing to us, at which point we were like...well, if it is possible, the show just became even weirder. But then we moved on from the play and began to talk about different places in America and Europe because there were three Americans (including me), a girl from the Czech Republic, a girl from Italy, and a girl from Greece who were all there. It was really cool to be a part of such an international exchange, and I hadn't really thought about it up until that point, but I actually hang out with a lot of international students besides Czech students. I am growing to absolutely love how diverse the countries are in Europe. I love meeting someone from England in a hostel, getting breakfast with them in the morning, and then having dinner with a polish guy you met in a museum later that same day. It is a really cool thing. So, I hung out with these girls until like 11 p.m. and then I went home and went to bed...essentially.

Well, I think I covered just about everything I did in the last week and a half minus things like watching cartoons online on Saturday morning, because I am pretty sure no one cares at all about stuff like that. As you can see, it was really a pretty chill week and weekend, and those are my favorite kinds :) The next few days, though, before we left for Amsterdam were crazy-busy however. So I will talk about them tomorrow. Again, I haven't mentioned this in a while, but if you have anything in specific you want me to mention or talk about, or you have questions about anything I have already talked about...feel free to leave a comment or question as feedback...I love feedback! :)

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