Last Day in Prague

I had a really lovely day today. I revisited the Castle in the morning and then ate lunch on the Vltava river with Denise, a woman from the workshop that is still around. I walked around Charles' Bridge numerous times and ducked into some tacky souvenir shops (everything was deplorable). Afterwards, I saw my directing teacher and we ate cheap snacks in the park and got tea. I took some evening pictures over the river and of Old Town square before dipping into a small jazz cafe for dinner.

Jazz Cafe

I especially liked walking by the statue on my way back and seeing groups of people about my age sitting around it. The weather was perfect for it.

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.