Dobry Den –
Well life in Prague continues to be good!!! Why? I GOT TO MEET ANTHONY BOURDAIN!!!!
Ok so we have an awesome pub called the Pivovarsky Klub, right below our apartment. It has great food and the Czech Republic’s largest selection of beer. Not too shabby. Well last Thursday night, a kid in our program started screaming and yelling “You’ll never guess who is downstairs right now?!!?” Ok wait, back story. We probably talk about him daily. His show ‘No Reservations’ is awesome. Well we all scurry and run downstairs and in front of my eyes there he is, Anthony Bourdain, filming a segment in MY pub!!! I literally sat 5 feet away from him while he filmed his segment. I might be one of those people in the background!!! I think I almost had a heart attack. He got to take a picture with him and talk to him for a tiny bit. Of course, we became instant friends (ya i wish) but he was cool and his production staff talked to us for a bit. Such a good night!!!
The weather is starting to turn cold here in Prague! I’m not complaining though because the cold reminds me of home : ) I love crisp, fall days. Its a little harder to go out since walking when its cold at night is no fun. My roommates and I threw a toga party and it was a lot of fun! I also had to go to the hospital because I was feeling under the weather, but everything went great! I was nervous to check out the Czech health care system, but I was impressed.
Well last Sunday, four of us decided to rent Mopeds (two Mopeds, four people) and ride 35 miles to a near by town, Kunta Hora, which has the famous Silver Mines and Bone Church. This little trip turned out to be one the most exciting/fun/scary adventures of my life. The trip there took nearly four hours and had muddy detours, trying to find the gas station, trying to figure out how to put the gas in the moped, muddy crashing of the mopeds, falling over and cracking of hence moped. It was also quite chilly. By the time we got to Kunta Hora and had lunch, everything was closed except for St. Barbaba’s Church. Well we were a little disappointed, but decided to head back because it was getting late and dark. The next hour and a half back to Prague on the moped was the SCARIEST time of my life. So two of us are on this tiny moped, in the dark, through back roads with no lights, and o, of course, it started to rain! Luckily I was not driving because I would have killed us all. We were frozen when we got home and glad to be alive. The whole day was a blast and a great adventure!!!
So last Saturday, I made a bad choice. I decided to do an all night 35 mile hike. Yes, it was as bad as it sounds. It was a pilgrimage hike from Prague to the Holy Mountain. The statistics: total distance walked 34.61 miles, avg. speed 3.45 mph, time of the movement 9 hours and 59 minutes, start at 7:32pm on Friday, finish 9:30am on Saturday. I was disorientated by the end and could barely walk and was frozen. But as crazy as it was, I am really glad I did it. Its good to push yourself to your limits…now there seems like there is nothing I cannot do!
This week I turn 22!!! Woo!! Tomorrow night our friend Geiger is renting out a room at the bar where he works for us complete with a piano and accordion player!!! Here’s to my last day of being 21!
Nessie
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