Praha 23-25 July 2010

Prague was one of my favorite cities that we visited. It is very well preserved, and so much history has taken place here. Our hostel was really good and had very helpful and funny staff. Our room was nice, and it was basically just our group because all eight of us were in a room designed for 10. There were two other Israeli girls staying in there with us, but we did not talk to them very much. We went out to eat when we got there at a restaurant right down the street from our hostel, and the food was amazingly good and amazingly cheap. Some of us then got ready and went out to a club. It was not a very good club, and we did not stay long but it was a learning experience. The next day we walked through Prague and went to the palace and crossed the very famous medievil bridge. The views from the palace were spectacular, and although I liked that the rain made everything cool it also made it less enjoyable walking through the city. We ate lunch at some little brewery that we found, and I am glad we did because I had a really good meal and one of the best beers I have ever had. After this we went to find the Patagonia outlet store, but when we found it we realized the prices were about the same as the prices in America. Michael bought a pretty cool jacket and then we went back to the hostel. This night we went on a pub crawl that we read about in a brochure. We got ready and went to the meeting place. When we got to the meeting site there was only like five people already there, and we thought we were in for a lame night. We did not have to pay right away so we decided to just check it out. We were lead to an old five story church that had been converted into a night club. It was packed full of people from all different countries around Europe and the world. The drinks were free for the first hour and a half, and we walked around and met people. We then went downstairs to a dance club area, and we were there for about an hour. We walked through the city to the next club and hung out there for an hour, and then the whole group went back to the hostel except for Kavi and I. We went to the next bar with the group and met some other American medical students. Somehow we lost track of the group when they left to go to the next bar, and we ended up staying at this bar to almost 4 am. When we left we decided it would be best to get a cab. We were much farther away than we thought and ended up not having enough Korona to pay for the ride, so we had to pay in Euros. Eventhough we got ripped off on the exchange rate, I was glad to be back. I felt like I slept for about 5 minutes, and that might have been true because our train was leaving at 6:55 in the morning so we left the hostel very early. After finally regathering my faculties I made it to the train station with the rest of the group and tried to sleep on the train on the way to Berlin despite Matt waking me up to tell me we were getting off several times. I was glad to finally make it back to Bonn and my host family after this adventurous weekend.