A few days ago I went to the Prague Zoo. Okay... 90 Kc (like six bucks) to go to a zoo that is probably even larger than the one in San Diego? SRSLY? That's too awesome for words. As was the zoo. So here's a photo or two. I tried to limit my photo-taking at the zoo, because as one of my Film Studies (hereon referred to as FS) friends noted, you always wind up taking a bunch of mediocre pictures of animals and then do nothing with them.
Except I had to take pictures of the penguins because they're frickin' adorable.
This photo was taken from the chairlift. It was really steep and didn't exactly have seatbelts or reliable straps... livin' on the edge at the zoo.
So there's that. What else have I done these past few days... well, we've had Czech classes in the morning. Those are pretty fun. Sometimes. Classes are like three hours, which is pretty rough, especially if you've been out the night before. And since every night is going-out night, you don't exactly fly out of bed each morning to go learn Czech.
Yesterday we went to Prague Castle! PURDY.
DID YOU KNOW?
Czechs used to have beer soup for breakfast. You mean like a bowl of beer? Yes, like a bowl of beer.
Welp, today was pretty great. Czech class was fun because we pulled a (slightly flawed, but whatever, it was funny) prank on our teacher. He was teaching us how to ask for and give directions, so he brought a blindfold and the class would have to direct one of our peers around the room in Czech. On the last try we made him wear the blindfold, and while he was being guided around the room we "silently" (totes didn't) snuck out of the room. He caught on pretty quickly so it kind of failed, but it was still pretty funny.
After class a group of us went to the National Gallery (or called something like that, I forget) and saw the exhibits. HOLY CHEESE BALLS. It was a MASSIVE 5-story gallery packed with thousands of paintings and sculptures and everything you can imagine. We must have spent at least 3 hours in there and still didn't have enough time. The art was beautiful. I especially enjoyed the surrealist collection. And I stood in front of actual Picasso paintings, speaking of surreal. I looked like a baby watching someone blow bubbles.
After the gallery we walked to a strange miniature carnival of sorts. Only it must have recently been attacked by zombies because NOBODY WAS THERE. But it was open and the rides were going. Buuuuut when we tried to go on a ride the guy told us to go away. What's going on here? So we just walked around and marveled at the unusual place. We sat by this area where I presume there must have been a building at some point, but nothing was left except for the tiled floor. I scooped up some scraps of the tile; I might try and make a mosaic with them.
AFTER THAT we walked to this amazing bar and talked for a little while over some drinks. Seriously, I wish my camera had been working when we were there. It's like a massive bar made out of iron tools and cogs and bits of scrap metal. It's something hipsters would lean against so they could take artsy over-saturated profile pictures. Really cool place. I'll definitely be going back.
AFTER THAT was a screening of some event in the square, about a five minute walk away. I stood around for a bit but I was hungry as a hippo so I returned to the apartment and made spaghetti. Speaking of spaghetti! Guess where we all went for lunch today? None other than the Louvre, a pretty restaurant frequented by the likes of Albert Einstein and Franz Kafka.
SAY WHAT?!
Good gravy I am tired. Last night was... dot dot dot. A couple FS friends put together a bonding extravaganza for our group involving Improv and a homeless Czech dude. It was a great night, but I haven't recovered yet. I need to go to bed. Spanks for reading. Dobre noc!
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