5/8/2011 - The second half of being abroad

Sorry for the delay, but more then two years after my abroad experience I am now posting my notes about the second half of my abroad experience. This definitely isn't as my blog posts from the first half, but it's more so for my purposes anyway so I don't really care. HA! Anyway, here it is:




• Prague

- This girl in my class who was nice and helping me with studying said some borderline anti-Semitic shit. And I go “Im jewish.” And she goes “NO YOU’RE NOT!!” and I go “yup.” Her face turned so red. I don’t remember what it was about. It was something about us being stingy. Funny.

• Naples

- pizza is bommmmmb (and everywhere else I've been it has been also)

- beautiful city

- castle nuevo

- exhausted at night from waking up early so we just got a good dinner and some bottles of wine, passed out

- took train to rome sat across from guy from swingers

- at metro station saw woman without a nose. Never realized befor this
- how important a nose is until I saw someone without one. Jokes made at her expense: "I wonder if she cut off her nose to spite her face" "hey, its mrs. Potatohead" "a: how do u think that happened? B: who nose."
- collaseum, fountain, and pantheon

- sick street performer, I helped out and danced… theres a video

- grown man whistle at hot woman in dinner… real classy

- went out to a bar

- I now like sparkling water occasionally. Accidentally ordered it but ended up being a great call. Kinda similar to dr pepper. (used to hate it but based on a technicality I love it)

- saw swaztika at bus stop. Big wake up call that I was in another country.

- prostitute flashed me. Not very appealing.

- colloseum tour

- midget beggar was well dressed.

- pig head at where we ate lunch

- palestinian parade. Theres a video of this. Crazy.

- area di tito (forums) by dude

- went to club

- 1 and a half hours of sleep before vatican tour

- vatican tour with dude

- kicked out of sistine chapel

- took nap all day, then woke up and got dinner with some of my roomates friends from camp (bomb chicken parm), afterwards we walked around to trevi fountain (which wed already been to but at night its illuminated and beautiful). Then were walking and an irish homeless man (michael) comes up to me with a guittar asking for money. I told him only if he played a song for me, played the worst guittar ever but was so funny. I videotaped it.

- next day woke up and went to the pantheon. Round building. Over 1800 years old. One of the only totally round buildings in the world. Skylight in the middle.

• Florence
- Got in went to our shitty hostile... The guy there tried to use reverse psychology on us (he's a germaphobe, he doesn't give out towels because of it etc...) Were like riiight ur saying that so we don't think its dirty and u don't give out towels cuz ur cheap. Anyway we put our shit down then go to piazza di g _ and get a great view of the city. We chill, get a couple of beers, then hang out there for awhile..
- That night I got dinner with amie kugler (mia friend) and her two roomates at this restaraunt aqua. I had a top 3 steak of my life there (blueberry). Then after we went and met up with like 10 of my other miami friends who study in florence to pregame at this bar (including dan shaer, alyssa neufeld, jamie strauss, alex lyons, kerry sauber, and jackie roney). They all suggested that the following night we do a big miami dinner, I said thatd be great. Later that night, at the club we went to I ran into my baltimore friend Emily brilliant (luckily ran into her b/c found out she was going to berlin the weekend I was planning on going alone). That night I slept at amies.
- Next day we woke up and got sandwiches with my miami friend dan. He showed us the leather block where there are many shops selling a variety of items. it was here that I probably made the biggest impulse buy of my life. I saw a belt buckel with the "&" sign on it and decided I needed it. The thought process went something like this... My name is andrew. Half of that is and. The belt buckel is of the "and" sign. HOW CAN I NOT BUY A BELT BUCKEL WITH MY NAME ON IT?!
- Then we went to make reservations to see michelangelos "david"
- On our walk back we ran into these 2 girls id met the night before and they invited us up to their apartment to hang out a little bit. We took a nap afterwards.
- That night my roomates and I met up with my miami friends including dan shaer, alyssa neufeld, jamie strauss, alex stetzer, amie kugler, alex lyons, kerry sauber, lindsey ullian, jackie roney, amanda grabel, and abbey sharpe. Nice seein everyone, and even nicer that they took the time to organize something like that for me.
- After that we split off and went to a bar where they had a beer pong tournament. Before the game started I went up to a hot girl with a sign around her neck to ask her what it was. She said she was turning 21 and had 21 tasks she had to complete by the end of the night. One of them was to give a lap dance and the other one was to take a body shot off of someone. I let her do both. Happy to help out whenever I can. Good Samaritan. I lost in beer pong 2nd round but my roommates made it to the finals. Overall great night.
- Next day we had a reservation to see david at 930 cuz we had to check out at 11 from our hostel. We then woke up at 8 so we could get food, etc before hand. We get to the museum and it says on the door "staff meeting until 12." The entire definition of a reservation is undermined by acts like these. The guy who made the reservation did the country difference concept "I do not know how u do this in america, but this happens in Italy." Bullshit.
- finally we make it to david... Not that impressed. Maybe because vatican and sistine chapel were so ridiculous. After that we went back, packed, and left for venice.

• Venice
- We get into venice and its literally on the water. Like, we took a water taxi from the train to the area of venice where our hotel was. Their are no cars at all in venice. Water taxis and gondalas. As we get in, there is like no one there but couples. Store wise it's only the nicest: robert cavali, gucci, hermes, etc... We check into our hotel. Killin it. Best spot yet. They changed sheets every night and gave us new towels etc...
- We walked around, shopped a little bit, got dinner. Salmon and shrimp was bombbbb. Had some wine, chillin, went back to the room, showered and planned to go out. On our way leavin the hotel we ran into our friend mario from prague and invited him to come with us to go find a bar. he followed. Findin a place to go out wound up being a lot harder in venice then we thought. As were walking we ran into jeff, the dude from our vatican tour. I knew he was traveling alone and he was a nice guy so I invited him to come with us to find the bar. He agreed so now we have a crew. We finally find a bar and go up. Very chill night.
- Next day we slept in and then got breakfast at the hotel. They had chocolate cornflakes which I haven't had in awhile. Then we went to glass island. It was rainey all day, though. Watched them blow glass and make glass sculptures. Picked up presents for my fam. This was very cool. He said people who blow glass here do it as a result of tradition, its not like a job choice. Got myself glass penguins. After the glass factory we took the water taxi back to our area and just walked around. I was trying on fedoras because I always wanted to be the kid who can wear a fedora. Unsuccessful. Conclusion is I don't see myself becoming that kid anytime soon.
- Came back, watched the new lost in their internet cafe. Got ready to go out.
- Got another bommmmmb dinner. Sea bass was sick.
- Then went out and made friends with italians. It was an awkward intro but I finally got into their crew. "Yerp" they said it like “yehhhp”
- Next day woke up and had to leave to go to milan (the last stop on our spring break). We all got in an argument on when we should leave. It was a beautiful day and because it was shitty the day before half of the group thought we should chill a few more hours and the other half thought we should just leave. Instead we compromised and went on a gondala ride. Mad funny. generally, for those who don't know, gondalas are for couples who want a romantic getaway. So sure enough, my four roomates and I took one. I blackberry dj'd. The playlist was as follows: fuel - shimmer, hootie and the blow fish - only wanna be with u, vanessa carlton - a thousand miles, blues traveler – run around, snoop dogg - sexual seduction, common - the light, kanye west everything I am. Killin it.

• Milan
- In milan we get in and walk to our hostel. We get there and they tell us that they are doing renovations and we have to go to their brother hotel which is even nicer. We get there and they tell us they only have a room with a queen sized bed and a room with 2 twins. It’s 5 of us. I flip out on them, and they don’t budge. We all wind up having to rock paper scissor to see which 3 dudes had to sleep in the queen. I lost I was pretty pissed when it happened but it was actually pretty funny.
- Its already 8 by this time so were pretty hungry, go get food, everyones really tired but we were still trying to go out. Half of us made it out and we went to a bar on the corner for an hour or so. Since we had a kinda early flight the following day we went back and passed out.

• Prague

- got back to prague and like the weather transformed. It was literally snowing 2 days before we left for italy and now its 70 degrees here and beautiful. The weather is so rejuvenating. They have little shops out in old town square and tables. I have a feeling I'm going to be hanging out there a lot.

- Went to bed early so I could get up early to see obama... While standing on the metro we watched his motorkade go thru... 20 ft away from him

- Went to soccer match

• Berlin
- just made train with my homie Nick... Found hostel where my friend emily was staying... Got traditional german food... Went out... Pub crawl left while at atm... Got bottle of jager.. Went back to hostel drank there... Went out with emily and friends... Got waaaasted...met up with random ukrainian girls... Back to hostel and woke early for walking tour... Once again juuust made train.

• Prague

- Got back and found ill spot outside to do work, free wifi

- That night friends parents took us to dinner at "barracks" ... No relation. Bomb fish. Afterwards saw cuba gooding jr.

- Next day my parents came in town. Been hanging with them, did a shitty tour with them. Informative but guide was the worst. Great seeing them. Hooked me up with my own room for a couple of nights while they were there.

- Beer factory with parents and roomates

• London

- On the plane over to london we reached adequate the altitude so I reclined my seat back all the way. After doing this, the guy behind me told me I was laying in his lap and asked if I'd please move it up a little bit. Because he asked nicely I obliged but I don't think that my one luxury while riding coach should be shortchanged because of a miscalculation by a czech airline engineer. The guy couldve moved his chair back, or he couldve just not been a little bitch.
- I had my headphones on listening to 808s and heartbreak when I felt a tap on my shoulder. there's little more disconcerting then unexpectedly glacing over your shoulder to find a foreign head peeking over the top of your chair like wilson from home improvement. I wanted to helga patacki his face (that was a hey arnold reference). Bullshit.
- Why do miami club promoters still invite me to their parties when they know I'm in another country? My friend krum said he wished their were an "abroad" button under the "maybe attending" option. I feel that. Sometimes though, I like to reply that I'm coming just to throw the number count off. It's my little way of remaining relevant in the party scene. Anyway that I can mettle in their business gives me pleasure.
- Buckingham palace was disappointing. Thought I'd be able to try to make them laugh.
- Random, but Dad claimed he didn’t “believe in Credit card signature” haha.
- Absolut Ice bar with parents
- Met up with girl I met in florence... Before I met with them made friends with 2 random london guys in the bar.
- Next day woke early and went on double decker bus tour
- My mom asked me to blog about this... I wanted traditional english breakfast. Walked in somewhere and discovered it had a french name "cafe rouge". I then suggested we leave and go somewhere english. My mom thought it was a ridiculous suggestion but acquiesced anyway. We then went to a restaraunt named bosleys and had an excelent english breakfast. She maintains we wouldve gotten a good English breakfast at the other place. I agree we mightve, but it wouldve been a stupid risk.
- That night my parents and i went to see "thriller live"
- Afterwards I hung out with my mom and watched role models.
- Next day went to hard rock café
- Then took rock bus tour
- Facebook is saying miami is the number 1 party school. I’m seeing a bunch of Mini feed hoes who feel responsible posting about it. bLaaaah.

• Prague

- Got back to praha.... 5 story club night story

• Krakow

- That night we took a train to krakau poland... Big party on the train

- Next morning went to auschvitz and Berkanau. Don’t really want to talk to much about this. Disgusting that this could happen.

- Afterwards wandered the city with mike and avi... Met a really legit dude at a traditional polish food spot.

- That night we had a big hotel pregame then went to the club

- Following day we woke up, started to do a walking tour that cea set up for us and after an hour avi and I bounced to get food. We then met up with some kids from our group and laid out by a lake with a few beers

- Cea took us to dinner

- That night took train back and partied as much as we could. Got in at 7 in the morning

• Prague

- In prague thru wed. ... Tuesday both of my classes were canceled which was great..

• Greece

- Wed. We left for athens greece (crew was me jp dave joe jesse avi and nick), we were meeting up with nikki in greece after she visited london.

- Sketchy cab driver with me and Nikki... Last minute jumped ship

- We got into athens and nikki and I went to our hotel. We went to the roof restaraunt, shared a greek salad, bruschetta, and had some pretty good beer (mythos). We then meet up with the other dudes who were staying at a hostel. On our way we met a homeless greek man who I thought was gonna ask for money, but he really was just testing his english. He recommended a few movies based on me saying gladiator is my favorite movie (my real favorite movie is fight club, but I didn't know if hed know it.)

- Story: Street vendors running from cops, I made joke and fell on my face. Scraped my elbow and got dirt all over my white hoody (the ladder was more dire).

- While in a square, dave said no thank you to a woman selling shit so she screamed something in greek and spat at him. Hillarious.

- We eventually sat down for dinner which was pretty good... Street vendors kept coming up to us. I bought a lighter that shocks u when u click it... American smokers look out, its comin home with me. Another street vendor came up to us with a loud megaphone. Looking back I definitely should’ve bought it to supplement some of my videos. Prague Is a very reserved/quiet city, running thru the streets with a megaphone has great comedic potential.

- After dinner we went to a bunch of bars and drank...on our way we saw two dogs having sex. We were mortified yet couldn't take our eyes off of them. Then Jp had us get this traditional greek drink which was 40 percent alcohol. I was done. eventually went back and passed out.

- Next morning we woke up and met the guys in the square to go to the acropolis. It was sooo cool. Nikki and I eventually split off from them to get food and do some more touring before we all had to take the fairy to the island of paros (where wed be the majority of the island). Nikki and I saw the library and a small museum that had cool ancient artifiacts.

- We walked back, got our stuff, and took a cab to the fairy

- On the fairy we didn't have assigned seats, which I didn't mind because a few of us sat on the deck and took in the beautiful views. Also on the deck were two golden retrievers who were tied up. I miss my dog ozzy so I hung with the golden retrievers for most of the ride. At one point though, one of the retrievers looked at me strange, so I had no choice but to rap battle him. This freestyle battle is on video. From here, "fink the butcher" was born. Fucking ridiculous, but very funny.

- That night we got into our hotel which was nice enough. Since there were 8 of us we had 4 rooms of two. I was obviously with nikki.

- We got in, got our stuff together then went out to the bars. We went into this bar blaaasting music. We assumed because their music was loud they'd have the strongest party. Incorrect. There were 5 people in there besides us.

- The next day we all set our alarms to wake up early to get 4-wheelers and lay on the beach. We have a funny video of this, but I had to ride with nikki because I didn’t bring my license. Haha so wack.

- We finally get on the road and it's sick. Great weather so we can see far and also the island had plenty of random paths for us to drive off onto. After getting food (and getting jp and I our 4-wheelers), we drove and found a fairly isolated beach devoid of people (with the exception of a topless woman); needless to say we set up shop. It was a little windy, but the sun was strong and the view was great. While here, joe and I heterosexually took pictures of eachother because of the great sights. Nikki wouldn't partake except for shaking her head at us... I missed nikki for shit like that, haha.

- After we laid out for awhile, I battled a donkey... And owned the jackass. Then we got gyros (pronounced hyeeros). Pita sandwiches stuffed with pork or chicken. I ordered pork everytime in hopes to receive the great swine flu. I had no such luck. While on the topic of hyeeeeros... Between the 8 of us we completed more then 100 of them during the entire weekend. We did rough estimates.

- We then took naps to get good for the night.

- That night we pregamed in one of our rooms then went out... Both nights we partied hard, but did so with ourselves. I of course walked up to a bunch of different groups of people each night, but with little legitimate success. Greeks are very polite people. Every group I walked up to were nice, yet everything I said got minor responses except for a formal reply, even if it was a joke. The most I got was one girl telling me "I was funny" but even then I was refused when I asked for her number. The most interesting conversation though was with a girl the last night who broke down greeks like this. "We're not as friendly as americans. We go to bars to party with our friends and people we know. We don't dance with people unless we've met them before or been introduced by a mutual friend. In england, when I studied there, all of the greeks went out together and had similar interactions with the english as I'm having with you. It's simply not our way."

- The next day we woke up and went to a different beach. Once again, it was a beautiful day and at this beach there was a volley ball court. After laying out for awhile we challenged the people currently playing to a game. They accepted. We lost 2-1. The terms were that whoever lost had to buy the other team a round of beers. One of our competitors was german. His exact quote (in a thick german accent) was "I can already taste the ___". This may have been my first participation in a competitive sport in the last few years since I played tennis last. I had a good time though. While getting food and drinks with them we got into a serious political discussion with two of the guys that we played volleyball against. I asked them what they thought about turkish integration into the eu because I had to do a project on that subject a few weeks later and thought they might be able to shed some light on some europeans opinion on the subject. They did, as well as various other subjects. From the economic crisis, to greece's corrupt government, to the AIG situation, to the Maddof ponzi scheme. Very interesting getting their opinions.

- We then once again went back and took naps until we went out that night. Once again, we went out and it was a good night.

- Following day we went out on a boat for half day to see some cool sights and simply be out on the water. Yannis took us out. Good guy.

- That night we bounced back to athens... Nikki and I stayed at a holiday inn hotel while my roomates did the hostel thing. Nikki left early the following morning so we said our goodbyes. Great seeing her.

- Our hotel was pretty nice, so the following day I just chiiiiilled till our flight. Met up with my boys, and me and avi drank the native greek drink and got drunk for the flight. Then passed out.

• Prague

- Got in and I got a thai massage cuz my neck was still hurting from how I slept on it during the greek flight.

- The following night I went to hard rock cafe and got my server. She hooked us up with free ice cream. it was cinco de mayo, and they were playing mexican music. Understand, they were playing mexican music at the one restaraunt in prague they actually would play good music. Ehh...

- That night there was a huge pregame at this girls appartment. It reminded me of college cuz there was actually a lot of people there. Another fun night.

- The following day I got my life in order to prepare for my paris trip. During this day I realized how tired of traveling I really am. I felt guilty because I was in the middle of something that others would die for, but regardless, hopping around gets really tiring.

- That night I passed out early for my flight the following morning.

• Paris

- We got in and met up with our friends at our hotel who had been in allready.

- After grabbing food (there bread is bomb) we went and did a free walking tour. Now let me clarify this, as grateful as I am to have the opportunity to do what I'm doing, I am soooo tired of tours. I did it anyway because my roomates were all going and I figured I should suck it up for a few hours and learn about the city. I'm trying to think of a piece of useful information from this tour right now but I can't... Cool enough pictures though. Oh, the gypsies suck. But I couldve told you that.

- That night we went out with the intention of doing a pub crawl. Based on our dinner it didn't work out.

- Went to the eifle tower with Joe. So sick

- Afterwards I got some muscles (a french specialty)... We then went out, nothing special

- Following day we came home

• Prague

- The day we got back was a saturday so I was able to nap then go out. I did a lot of wandering this night. Pregamed in a bunch of different kids from my programs rooms, and went to chappeau (there was a czech rap group: 3 rappers, one singer, one dj). Though I didn't understand what they were saying I complemented them on their performance afterwards (one of them had a strong rapid-fire delivery). He didn't even understand english. I love that shit. Hip-hop is so much bigger then the u.s. Afterwards wandered to 5 story, and wandered around even more after. Haha.

- Next day I chilled online a lot and did a project on google.

- Monday night I went to chappeau despite being tired just to push myself and go out and be social. Wound up being a great night.

- The following day I did my project on turkish accession into the eu so that I could go out that night for my programs booze cruise.

- Booze cruise was wiiiiild, very very serious pregame. After it we went to a club, then I wandered over to chappeau. Great night.

- It was on this night I decided against going to sensation white that upcoming weekend (a big rave in budapest). School work was a reason I was giving, but looking back it was really that I needed a break. I am writing this the sunday after I wouldve gone to sensation white and I can vouch that I did no work this weekend. But I feel totally refreshed.

- Wed. Night I passed out hard

- Thursday night I got dinner with ariel at "pragues best burger joint" called yama burger. It was her last night so afterwards we went to this other spot in old town square and got drinks that overlooked the square. Very pretty. Then she took me to a whisky bar. It was sooo good. Its called bar and books. I will be back before I leave to do a tasting. We met some l.a. Girls at that bar.

- That Night there was a pregame in our appartment complex. Really fun... We went out to radost after. I almost got into a fight on this night. Kid tried to start a fight with me last night cuz he said I was a pretty boy. So I called him a fag cuz that's essentially him calling me good looking. Then he called over his big friend and while sparking a cigarette told his friend to "handle it." This enraged me because he's clearly the type of kid who starts shit because he knows he has his big friend backing him. I then asked his friend if he was his bouncer. And if he was I'd pay him more then his bitch-ass friend was.

- So then the big kid said "stop running your mouth, I'm not tryna fight, just break it up.". So I told him I didn't have any beef with him just his homosexual friend and it was over. Later on one of my friends said to the kid who started it "it's cool to start fights when your on coke." The kid replied "I am on coke." It explained a lot. Also on this night I earned a free beer after using the word "usurp" and someone betting me that it wasn't a real word. Totally usurped a beers worth of money from his wallet. Ahaha.

- The following morning when I got back I slept through 3 or 4 o'clock the following afternoon (my roomates left that weekend). I got about 13 hours of sleep in total.

- Friday night we pregamed and went to a random club... Good time. This marked the first night of me having the appartment to myself.

- The following day I watched movies all day and was a lazy piece of shit. I was supposed to see wolverine but fell asleep again by 6 at night. I then woke up at 1130, started another movie, then fell asleep again until 930 the following morning. Around 14-15 hours of sleep.

- Sunday morning I got a bomb breakfast at globe and did some studying for exam tuesday. Went out to chappeau for a little and had b-52s.

- Monday went around to clubs with avi negotiating. Ended up at chappeau.

- Tuesday studied for biz ethics all day, negotiated club for thursday. Took exam. That night went to chappeau, strip club. "Swag." Nick’s last night.

- Wed. No class. Met up with girl in park. Bought pastel picture. Walked around prague with avi and mike at night. Didn't make it to eiffle tower. Baught bottle of wine. walked and with mask on. I bought russian hat. We were turned down at lavka. Big bouncer said to me "your fucking idiot" then went to chappeau and made south african friends. Came back and girls next door had sausage fest pregame which resulted in police coming. We were in our rooms so it was ok. Then we went to mecca for the last time. Still hate it, ha. Came home early to meet with friend. Great night.

- Thursday I woke up and finished my criminal law assignment. Went to pick up tickets for duplex (club I planned big party for) 100 in total. After I finished my assignment I went and got the stuff for the white russians (my appartment was russia). We named it All OVA TEMPLOVA… it was around the world themed pregame before we went to the club. Every1 came to pregame including professors marta and radka. No police because we spoke to next door people. Every1 came to duplex. Awesome night.

- Friday woke up and it was raining hard, as a result I just hung out with all of my roomates until I had to give my ppt in my advertising class. Went to alberts and got chicken. Finkelstein with a ph. Silly southerners. Moved upstairs. That night I got back and we had a pregame between the 3 of our rooms and we went to this random club then ended at chappeau rouge. Avi had beef with sonya the bar tender for them not remembering his name. Avi made a huge play with only 20 crown.

- Went to the zoo with my old and new roomates. Zoo is rated 10th best in world. After discussing idiot kids who do reckless things for attention, my boy jp jumped into the moose pit. Hillarious. There was a sign that said no ice cream, knives, or dogs. Funny sign. Also I pet some goats. That night we got back, took a nap, then woke up at 12 to go out. We went to a pregame first and guess who was outside? The guy who started shit the other night. This time though it was me and my crew of 15-20 dudes and just him. I go, yo, remember me? And he’s like yo man and goes for a handshake and I don’t give him one. One of my boys, Jesse, goes “pretty big pussy move to start shit when you have a crew with you”. He ended up walking away.

- Then we went to 5 story club. Then we went to mcdonalds. "I'm from israel" "I'm jewish!" "... I'm arab" ahaha Worst service ever. Also pricing didn't make sense. "How much for bad service" "prohseem?" "Nevermind, that's free"

- Woke up, went to radost fx for their classic brunch, studied for an hour or so with my friend for our criminal law class then me and a crew from templova (our building) went to beer fest. There we met up with my roomates (old and new, haha) and chilled. It was sick, like 5 or 6 tents of people just drinking different exotic kinds of beer. My boys made friends with some random czech dudes who rap and we cyphered. Afterwards they said there was an open mic night I should go to because they were impressed. We went out there and I was pretty nervous, it was one of the first times I'd ever spontaneously performed like that. The dude got on stage with me and we basically went verse for verse. I wasn't that happy with how I did, I'm a perfectionist. My 2 boys who came with me said I did well and they thought my stage precense was good, but I know personally I can do infinitely better. This was a huge experience because it basically showed me that I really need to work on my live performance, and specifically breath control. I know that I can write really well but if what you write isn't heard, it doesn't really matter, does it? Sick time though, I got some of the dudes contact info. I was wasted from the day and all I wanted to do was go to sleep, but my boy avi pushed me saying it was one of our last nights. I knew he was right so we went to the bar next door for a little bit before I passed out.

- Monday (the day before I leave prague) I woke up which was very hard to do considering the past day and went to school to take my exam, and turn in the two papers that were due. Also I turned in my books. Because I had to take my exam I was cracked out on adderall which was unfortunate for the rest of my day but I made a list of things I had to do before I left (because I was cracked out). Following is the list midday Before leave - synogogue, mini eiffel tower, tulip, and whiskey tasting, and huge castle. Then I got lunch at a sick czech restaraunt. I got sparkling water and spicy beef goulash. Last czech meal here. I'm glad though.

- Left there and went to buy nikki a "czech me out" shirt... Cuz someone in my family needed to own 1 and it definately wasn't me. Then gave the panini press and speakers to our fam friend andy. Then went inside the chapel (find name) that looks like magic kingdom. Then went to jewish quarter and walked through jew cemetary and saw 2 synogogues including the spanish 1. Kinda cool. Came back and got 3 of my friends to go with me to the eiffel tower. After that we met up with our friends for our "last supper" at crazy cow. After dinner we packed (since we didn't pack all day). While packing we kept taking absynth shots preparing to go out to chappeau rouge for our last night in prague.

- Chappeau was sad, emotions were running rampant. Everyone was wasted also which I'm sure contributed but still. Sad. Said goodbyes etc and rolled back to our appartment with a bunch of my boys. We all hung out late. I passed out around 3, while my friend avi decided he was gonna pull an all nighter. Hillarious. When I woke up at 6 the next morning to my boy mike saying bye (had an early flight), avi was cracked out. Haha. After finishing packing we walked to the lenin wall to lwave our mark in prague. "Templova, yerp. Once in a lifetime. -fink". Then we walked back and cabs were there to take us to the airport. The airport delayed our flight 2 hours cuz they had to change a tire. As a result I missed my connection at heathrow to dullus. On plane to heathrow woman went crazy. I was in emergency row. Once in heathrow the option of either connecting and having my mom drive 3 hours to pick me up or stay with 7 of my boys at a comped hotel for the night. I chose the ladder. We got comped dinner, breakfast, and it was all really nice. Hotel was 4 stars. It was a fun last night. The next morning jp and I left for the airport. On the plane I watched curb, gran torrino, and the simpsons. This was all before I passed out. Should have shaven my playoffs beard. Fuckin customs. Walked out, saw my mom and it was then that I knew my trip had ended. Fucking crazy 4 months. Best experience of my life. Anyone who is fortunate enough to have the oppertunity to go definately should. I feel like I've matured a lot. Blah blah, thanks for reading.