My friend Ashley's boyfriend, Brian, has been in Prague for two weeks with another study abroad program and I've been meaning to contact him since I've been here. I finally got ahold of him on Thursday and went out with him and a bunch of his friends to a fun, small bar. I really liked his friends and they were much less intimidating to hang out with since they weren't already friends before they came here like a lot of people in my program. One of his friends actually looked really familiar to me and in a major "it's a small world" moment, I realized that we had been friends at soccer camp the summer before my freshman year of college. I'm really excited to have another outlet to find people to hang out with.
On Friday, the three of us went to CEA's orientation dinner. We met up with a group of girls that we knew on the way there and even though we showed up 40 minutes late we were still the first ones to get there. We enjoyed the free food and the band and more people arrived throughout the party. It ended up being a lot of fun and an opportunity to meet a lot of great new people.
On Saturday, the three of us made a Valentine's Day dinner at the apartment. I made chicken and pasta and Lisa made a huge salad. We went out for some very decadent desserts. It was a really nice way to celebrate the holiday.
For my Prague Art and Architecture class, I was assigned to go to the Prague City Museum some time this week, so Lisa and I went and checked it out today. Most of the museum is a history of Prague with artifacts going way back to the pre-historic era of the city. The best part of the museum though was a temporary exhibit called Prague at Turns of Centuries. It had side by side photos from all over Prague at the turn of the 19th century and the turn of the 20th century. It was really cool to see how the things that we see every day have changed over a hundred years. We actually were really lucky that we got to see the exhibit because today was the last day that it was running.
Lisa and I also went to the gym for the first time today. We found the local YMCA yesterday and got memberships for the duration of our stay for only $35. We're not sure if we misinterpreted something through the language barrier, but if not it was a really great deal! It felt so good to be active and sweat today. I'm really glad to have Lisa here so that I'll actually be motivated by having someone to go with.
The big plan for tomorrow is doing laundry...it's so weird having SO much free time! I'm going to hopefully start work on my independent research project soon, so that should take up some time. I function better when I'm a little bit busy and stressed, so hopefully all this free time doesn't turn out to be a bad thing.
Love and miss you all :)
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