The Threshold

I have been in Prague for a little over a week now and can't believe how lucky I am to call this city home for the next four months. Last week, our school arranged a tour so we could see some of the many major sights of Prague. We went to the Prague Castle, Monastery, Old Town Square, and Wenceslas Square just to name a few places. It is so historical and I just walked around in awe of how absolutely beautiful everything is. Prague definitely does not get enough credit out there in the world and I urge you to come take a look for yourself. It isn't called "Golden Prague" and "The Mother of Cities" for nothing! There is still tons to explore because the city is divided up into three sections, Old Town, New Town, and Jewish Quarter and there are about a million things to see in each section.

The food here is delicious and most everything is extremely affordable! Traditional Czech food is not vegetarian friendly though, with pork, beef, duck, gravy, and dumplings as the main staples. Also, I think they feel bad that we are missing out on all those calories so they just fry EVERYTHING on the vegetarian menu (cheese, potatoes, cauliflower, etc.) and try to sneak pepperoni on it. At our tour the other day, the vegetarian alternative to eating goulash was fried cheese, with a side of french fries and ranch. Don't get me wrong, it was really good, I would just prefer most of my dining experiences to come sans heart attack.

There is always something to do here, which is quite different from Brunswick and Ashland. The nightlife is incredible and we have only gone to a few places so far. Saturday, we went on a Pub Crawl that only set us back $25 and gave us free drinks and VIP admission to 5 clubs. We totally danced the night away and had the time of our lives. (Side Note: European boys take their dancing seriously and are very forward; very amusing and kinda awesome.) Everyone survived until the end, a rare occurrence from what our adorable tour guide told us, and the last club on the crawl was Karlovy Lanze, the biggest club in central Europe. This place was massive, equipped with 5 floors to dance on and each floor had a music theme to it, such as Black Music (their words, not mine), Oldies, Techno and so on. The bottom dance floor was made of lights that changed colors to the beat, so of course we chose that floor and techno it was! We survived the entire thing, finally got home at 4:30 am and went straight to bed.

I start my first day of school tomorrow! Prague literally means "Threshold" and how fitting that I begin my senior year here =D