End of workshop party

Shaya and I laughing over our ice cream.

Roommates: a brit a german and an american

The depths of the bar we went to after the school party.

Shaya and I :)

Almost Home

The workshop is finished and most people left to go back home this morning. It's really odd to be here without them and I actually grew to really like and get to know everyone just this past week. That being said, I don't really know what to do with myself. I'm rather homesick, especially with nothing to distract me like school, and I didn't manage to do any sightseeing today because it was raining and I've lost my umbrella hah. I'm currently staying at one of the actresses apartment's in Old Town on her couch which is lovely of her but I'm starting to think I want some personal space so I may get a hotel for the remaining days. Some of the girls and I got the most lovely ice cream yesterday after our evaluations. I got the most amazing mint ice cream with a scoop of cookie ice cream and it was heaven. The mint ice cream had real mint leaves in it :)

Borders

I just got an email that all Borders stores are officially closing. I am so sad :( I can't even go enjoy it while it's still open because I am here :( ugh, so so sad.

Awkward conversations in Czech

I ran around all day looking for empty white pill bottles for my film. No one could understand why I would want such a thing and thought I was very strange. It turns out, that the pharmacies here are anti-bottles. They even sell generic pain killers in boxes and little white boxes are just not gonna do it for me. Anyway, I located a few clear ones and I bought some fizzle tabs that came in a white bottle and I'm going to try and print "labels" for them and glue them to the bottles tomorrow morning. I start filming tomorrow evening so wish me luck! *falls with exhaustion*

Happenings

I think my life has been looping for the past two days. I'll explain:

1. Yesterday, I saw some of my friends from the film school at a tram stop as they were walking home. I took the tram home, dropped some things off at my apartment and then went to get thai food in the neighborhood. As I'm walking to get food, I see them waiting for a tram to go to Old Town. Lucas looks at me from across the street and says, "no freaking way." Haha.

2. That same day I got off at the wrong tram stop when I was trying to find a photography store so I am waiting at some weird tram stop and a man walks by with his pitbull. Naturally, I notice that right away. I get on the tram and literally as I am stepping off of the tram, this man has walked the same root and we run right into each other.

3. The weirdest one of all (and I literally can't understand this one) happened this afternoon as I was heading towards the school. I got on the number 10 tram heading west. At the next stop, a man got on the tram and was standing across from me. I get off 3 stops later to transfer to a tram that heads northwest. I wait at the stop for about 5 minutes and then get on the number 22 tram. As I step onto the tram, there is the man I just left on the last tram. How on earth had he managed to head in the wrong direction on the number 10 tram and then SOMEHOW end up on the number 22 tram before me. 

Food Abuse

I can't eat anything here. Last week, I almost ate ham that came in my dish that I didn't know about. Yesterday, I think there was meat in my "vegetarian" black bean nacho dish and 30 minutes ago I dug into my vegetable risotto under the vegetarian options menu and found huge chunks of chicken in it. The restaurant also charged me for eating pistachios that were sitting in the middle of the table on a plate. My check even said vegetable risotto on it...F the service people here. They are the worst.

Photos

View from my bedroom window.

This is a couple streets away from my school. I ate lunch outside at a cafe and took this on my way back to school.

Yes, of course I found a dog. So pudgyyyy.

Kava

There is not nearly enough coffee in Prague to fulfill my needs this week. 

Hmm what to say about Prague. Well, I could tell you a lot about the school because that's where I spend all of my time. Yesterday we were all there from 9:30 am to 10:30 pm. I went grocery shopping a few days ago and a czech woman was actually really kind to me since my arm was in a cast. She scolded me for carrying a basket, unloaded and then bagged everything for me all the while I'm saying, "nerozumin" uhhh "dekuje" uhhhmmm, meaning I don't understand you, thank you, I don't understand, and on and on haha.

On Sidewalks

So long story short, I fell on the sidewalk in a really extreme way Friday evening and now my right arm is in a cast. I missed shooting a short film on Saturday to go to the doctor (which was highly terrifying as you can imagine..). The kicker is, my left elbow is also hurt so I am unable to move either of my arms to the point where I can't brush my hair, wash my face, take my contacts, or get dressed in less than 10 minutes. We'll see what happens with this film workshop :/ I'm so behind now and it takes me like 2 hours to "get ready" every morning.

On a side note, I've been trying to take a few more pictures recently so maybe a few will go up soon when I have sufficient internet. Ciao.

Dobry den, hello hello

I am safely in Prague. It's much different than I imagined. My flight went pretty well (although I can't say that having to be still on a plane for almost 10 hours is enjoyable in the least). There was a lot of turbulence and at one point the flight attendant woke me up in cesky (czech) yelling for me to move my feet so she could sit down haha. I was the only lucky person that had an open seat next to me, I couldn't believe my luck. I didn't sleep at all on the plane and I didn't sleep the night before, so if you do that math correctly I didn't sleep for more than an hour or two at a time for 78 hours. That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard of and I woke up this morning in Prague (monday) without even knowing where I was.

The flat they have given us is interesting--old building, really high ceilings, interesting little balconies, etc. I have two roommates, one from the UK and one from Germany. The one from the UK has nicknamed me "olive", so I suppose I'm olive now. I really like most of the people here! Getting around and having my basic needs met is still a challenge (i.e. eating, bathing, getting to the school). I left my plug adapters at home in another suitcase so blowdrying my hair and plugging things in is out of the question until I can locate someplace that has them.

I will try to update but it is not easy here. Once I get more comfortable with my surroundings I may bring my camera places with me. Until then, wish me luck.