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Welcome to my Blog! I will be updating this blog everyday I am in Prague, and other places in Europe, with a picture and an interesting story that happened to me. This is my way of documenting my trip for all to experience this wonderful oppourtunity of studying abroad in Prague. I will be taking a photojournalism class while abroad so watch out for some AMAZING (hopefully) pictures that I will share.















Sunday, May 23, 2010

Ahoj Praha!

I'm in Prague. I'm here. I think the best way of knowing where you are is to go back and look how you got there. So, How did I get to Prague? Let's go back to Saturday around noon. My mom, grandma, little brother, and I headed off to the airport. First, we stopped at Gringo's in Pearland to get some amazing Mexican food before I took off to a place where all they eat are dumplings and potatoes. After we ate I stood in line for the bagage drop off at the airport and said goodbye to my family before going through security. In security I set my passport and boarding pass down and almost forgot them but, some nice man handed them to me before I took off. So, a special thanks to that guy. After I was on the plane for sometime the girl sitting beside me started vomiting all over the place. It was pretty gross, but I got moved to first class! After the 9 hour flight to London Heathrow, I was already getting tired because of lack of sleep. We had a 4 hour lay over in Heathrow, where I discovered that the toilets in Europe are very small and square. Also the toilet paper comes out in individual sheets. weird. Anyways, I was then off on my 2 hour flight to Prague. Nothing exciting really happended on that flight, which was where I got most of my sleep. A whole 30 minutes! The Prague airport was really small compared to Heathrow and much less hectic. Marta, one of our tour guides, got a taxi bus to carry us to the apartments. I have learned that in Prague there are two speeds on the road, fast, and faster. We arrived at the apartments, which look like a catalog from IKEA. Then I went grocery shopping and bought food;I have no idea how much I spent or what the food even was. At night all of the students on the trip went to old town and watched the hockey game on a giant screen in the center of the square while drunk Czechs, painted in their countries colors, cheered their team on. There were so many interesting people, I cannot wait to start my photography class to capture all of these moments. So, taking a look back can show us alot. It showed me how I got to Prague. It showed me how beautiful this city is. It showed me that this oppourtunity is priceless. It showed me that I can. Yes, I can.

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  2. The beginning made me LOL!!! That's so gross that the chick threw up, but hey....first class?! Was it nice? I looked at some of your pics, they are REALLY good. Love ya!

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  3. haha nice, first class! and thats hilarious that the apartments actually look like you hoped they would! glad you got there safe and are already building the memories. awesome!

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