Prague pictures at last!

Ok, this is a really random assortment of some of the photos I have taken here in Prague. Some of them, like the laundry photos, are just to get you acquainted with my living situation and such. I will update again tomorrow probably to let you know how my first week of classes went. I need to get a lot of this little information out of the way, because Molly, my best friend, is coming to visit on Friday!! And I know that it will be a while before I post again once she gets here. I just have to say that I am sooooo excited that she is coming I can't hardly even stand it! Anyway, there isn't any specific story or sequence behind the photos, so just enjoy their randomness :)

1) Black and White photo of the main school building of Charles University, Faculty of Philosophy, where I take some of my classes. I am on the beginning of the bridge which would lead up to the castle.

2) Closer-up photo of the school building.

3) For those of you who might not be able to read the words in the picture, it says "Karlovy Lazne, The Biggest Music Club in Central Europe." It is five stories, and each story features a different type of music. My favorite floor was the oldies mix floor, where I heard "Surfin' in the USA" and "Cotton-Eyed Joe." It really doesn't get any better than that, my friends! "Cotton-Eyed Joe" in Prague...who would have thought?

4) Jewish synagogue from the Jewish quarter.

5) View of Prague Castle from Charles Bridge.

6) This is the Black Light Theater that I went to a few weeks ago.

7) Advertisement for the show I went to see, Aspects of Alice.

8-10) These next few pictures are from the Jewish cemetery in the Jewish quarter. People have been buried there since like the 16th century. I think I wrote some more on this in a previous post.

11) Me inside St. Vitus's Cathedral.

12) Main hall, or nave I think it is called, of St. Vitus's Cathedral.

13) I love this picture! My friend and I were there at the perfect time, because the afternoon sun was shining through the stained glass windows on one side, and this picture doesn't even do justice to the beautiful colors that were reflected off the stone.

14) Me in front of the main doors to the cathedral.

15) The front of the cathedral.

16) My friend Stephanie and I with the Cathedral in the background. She was the one who explored the castle with me.

17) Disclaimer: The reason I have a ridiculous amount of pictures of the cathedral is because I thought it was the castle. My friend and I were walking through the cathedral, and we were like, "it's really weird that they would call this a castle when it looks so much like a church...." Turns out it was a church...go figure! It was a little embarrassing :) But now we know, and that's what is important.

18) Stephanie and I when we first spotted the "castle."

19) The laundry room clothes-lines, a.k.a. "the drying machines."

20) The one washing machine...told you the situation was tragic :)