Wow, snow! It's snowing, really snowing. I had all of these plans to go into the city and get things done, but like most of my other Mondays, i've postponed everything until tomorrow. Its too cold outside. And as much as I don't like it, I do. Anyway ( Read more... )

-Its freezing outside ( Read more... )

Oh wow, I just finished watching one of the most fabulous czech film masterpieces. Or so say the czechs. Last week our teacher commented on how many international students don't like this extremely long, confusing tragedy in which characters die during the first half, but then miraculously come back to life in the second half. I read 95% of the ( Read more... )

This weekend I went to Budapest, Hungary with a bunch of other international students. Budapest is a dangerous place because not only do cars drive very fast and fail to slow for pedestrians, but there are also randomly placed waist high poles scattered throughout the city. They may very well be strategically placed rather than randomly in an ( Read more... )

Right now ( Read more... )

heh. written by cass in her journal (hopefully she won't mind me cutting and pasting it here):
hello, i'm back in brno. kelsey decided to postpone our hungarian adventure, we weren't prepared and couldn't find ANY accommodation on the internet for less than 40 bucks a person. bratislava and vienna were gorgeous, really nice to have a fun, bonding ( Read more... )

Last night, halloween, was full of no dressing up, minimal candy eating, no little kids, serious and light talks with my wonderful roommate, sticking a tiny picture of a drying dandelion to our door, Peter Gabriel songs, Pinback too, huge puddles in between A1 and A2, super fun german castle building games, arm wrestling, tickling, tiger roaring ( ( Read more... )

Time to concentrate and recall all of the funniness which was this weekend ( Read more... )

She said, "oh, I have something to show you!" Walking to her desk she grabbed several colored pencils. "What color do you want, blue or green? Oh wait, I have something even better." She rummaged through her backpack until she found a pencil with 4 or 5 colors at the tip. She tried sharpening it several times, but it was always one-sided. She ( Read more... )

Sometimes there is too much to say and the only thing I want is to try and say it all. As it turns out, this is not something I am any good at. Go figure. Last Friday before leaving for Prague, I went to the Roma museum with my ethnic relations class. There were 3 exhibits. One about the germans being forced from the country during WWII, in ( Read more... )