Anyway, the last few days have been pretty uneventful - just class and a few CIEE activities here and there. A few of us are planning a trip to Karlovy Vary this weekend, the big spa town west of Prague. I'll have a big surprise story about that on Monday, if all goes well, you'll see why. I'm also probably going to Oktoberfest with my family in two weekends.
Eh, I'm a bit in a rush. I have a bunch observations about Czech life in general though, so I'll leave with that:
- Czech drivers: they're nuts. They drive about 100 kph in the city and stop for nothing. Of course not pedestrians.
- Trams have the right of way over pedestrians.
- Tesco labels their food in English, but the cooking directions are only in Eastern European languages. Tough for people like me who really don't know how to cook/estimate.
- Czech fashion: also nuts. Today, the women on the metro next to me was wearing snakeskin print cotton pants. I was worried I wasn't going to up to snuff with European fashion, but honestly, very very few of the Czechs would qualify as stylish under our (US) standards. A lot of women dress like US hookers, in Tesco...
- Czech "gangsters": this is as amusing to me as seeing my skinny, translucently white younger brother pretending to be a rapper.
- Although, Czechs and minorities: hardly any. I've seen two black people total while here. One was wearing a shirt that said "I'm not a rapper," I found this to be especially funny here.
- Food, in general, goes bad in about two days here. Milk, fruit, bread. This is why people go grocery shopping pretty much every day.
- Not an observation, but when I'm commuting alone, people keep approaching me and talking to me in Czech. Do I look Eastern European? Also, Czechs are supposed to be reserved, we learned that in Czech class.
- People (generally) LOVE IT when you try to speak Czech, even if you kill the pronunciation.
- Chocolate bars are amazing. Kinder Bueno especially.
- Czech love their dry cookies.
- Tesco bill a couple days ago: two bottles of wine, two bottles of liquor, soda, cookies = 400 CZK. Or, about $24.
- $1.50 bottle of wine, verdict: terrible. That was a dare though.
2 comments:
No doubt computers/internet can be frustrating. Keep up your blog. I enjoy your observations as a student in Prague. Uneventful can be interesting.
*hehe* kinder bueno is wonderful! but try out the kinder maxi king. it will top it finally! :-)
well, dear emily, i am german. i live near the czech border and i was in prague and in carlsbad very often. prague is exciting and carlsbad boring. but you have to find out by yourself. i wish you lots of fun, also on the octoberfest. but don't think that this is all about germany. i have never been there. germany has got much better things to offer than thousands of drunken fat men in leather trousers and big busty girls *hehe*. little tip: try out berlin...cause THIS is the real germany!
sending best wishes your way from chemnitz. if you like you can leave a comment on my blog, too.
didiana
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