So I have been slacking on my blogging. Sorry everyone, it has just been a busy couple days. I think I may change the format of this journal. Instead of recapping my day-to-day activities I think my new approach will revolve around specific topics. For instance:
There are birds everywhere here. Nothing spectacular or out of the ordinary, just regular ole’ birds you can find in the states. If you have been looking at my recent pictures you may have noticed several pictures of birds. The most prevalent type of bird in Prague would be the omnipresent Pigeon. In America this bird is viewed as dirty and bacteria ridden. Something about the Pigeons here differs from in American. They wander the squares just like humans, eating scraps of bread and hanging around. Sometimes you have to move out of their way or you risk a run-in with a “flying rat”. I’ve grown to love these critters. Yesterday one was just hanging out on one of the statues on Charles Bridge. I was no more than 2 feet away from him, and me and him/her connected.
The next most popular bird in Prague is the seagull. It always baffled me seeing seagulls somewhere other than a costal region. Ya know it’s like when you’re driving around the suburbs and you see 20 seagulls hanging out in a pool of water in a Walmart parking lot. Weird shit right? Anyway, these seagulls stick to the river and bridges. When people feed them they fly all around making for great additions of already picturesque photos (see Prague photo album).
Next are ducks. Normal ducks here, the brown ones and the mallards. It must be mating season or something because they’re always chilling in pairs bobbing for food or just hanging in the Vlatava river. They haven’t proven to be as friendly as the Iowa City ducks, but maybe like the Czech people, they take a little buttering up before they’ll eat bread out of your lap.
Lastly, swans. Fuck swans. They think they are so elegant and graceful. They are mean and make very ugly sounds. Although I will admit, they do add a certain “cherry on top” vibe to the Prague river scene.
I am glad to say I have money again thanks to Western Union and my mom. I will spare you the details of what may have been the worst day of my life trying to get a cash advance on my credit card. HSBC sucks.
Classes technically started on Monday. I have yet to attend one. This is due to the fact that the entire registration system at Charles University is retarded and could easily be solved if someone spent a week gathering information from professors and then putting it all in one neat and lovely PDF file. This disorganization does make me miss Iowa and the ever so lovely ISIS registration system. But, I have finally discovered the times for ¾ of my classes, one is tomorrow, I am very excited to begin learning again. I left Iowa over 2 months ago, time to give the ole’ thinker some work again.
I have been waking up with the worst sore throats that linger throughout the day and I refuse to go to a doctor unless entirely necessary. I have been eating healthy and drinking juice/taking vitamins but the weekend starts tomorrow so sorry immune system, you’re just going to have to toughen up and deal.
Today was spent meeting with my advisor, walking around the Jewish Quarter for a bit with Mark and then spending the afternoon with my awesome Scottish friend Katie. Hit some organic vegetarian place for lunch, walked to one of the islands that are in the Vlatava river, then got some hot chocolate in a Café near campus before heading to our respective homes.
Tomorrow is Crazy Hair Night at club Saszu. ALLLLLLL RIIIIIIIIITTTTTEEEEE.
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