Alright, I am going to try and sum up the last few days of fun since my last story and class. Thursday night a group of us thought that bowling would be a good time. Since i had a late class I had a little bit of catching up to do before bowling. A box of Sangria did the trick. Then off we all headed to the bowling alley. This is not your everyday bowling alley. It is in a place called Boby Centrum, which has all the major sporting courts and venues for the city. For bowling they only have 4 lanes however, 2 of them were in use and one was broken. So now the 14 international students all attempt to bowl on one lane, which was the easy part compared to how hard it was to figure out european shoe sizes and then translate that into czech and then try to pay for it all at one time. This all had to take place in an hour and a half so needless to say we only bowled 4 frames each, but there was plenty of socializing, singing, and drinking going on that nobody cared.
Next we all head out to the pub below our dorm. As we are walking there we notice that a few special people have Joinked some bowling shoes (Joinked is one of the words we are teaching the germans if anyone knows any other fun amercian phrases let me know).
The next day, friday, since we don't have class Kelsey, Irina, Tadia, Joerg, Thomas, Rene, and myself go back to Boby Centrum to play some badmition. I think the last time i played was in middle school gym class and it showed. Kelsey used to play competetively in high school in Arizona and the germans, dutch and slovinians all played pretty well.
Then we went and had a picnic in the St. Peter & Paul Church Park that over looks a portion of the city. It was beautiful. We sat out in the sun playing ENKA, which is more or less the Slovinian version of UNO. After that we enjoyed some zmrzlina (ice cream) on our walk to play Czech Mini Golf. And I say Czech Mini Golf because it is not like any I have ever seen before. Once again trying to tell the people we would like to play and to pay was tricky but pointing and handing money has not failed us yet. On the first hole the first players steps on the course to putt and all of a sudden this starý muž (old man) come out yelling at us in czech. Apparently you are not allowed to step on the course you have to hit from the outside, which makes it a whole other game. Also the course is not turf it is some type of unlevel warpped rotting wood. The next trick is that not all of the holes actually have holes. For example, Hole number 12 is a hoop attached to a net that is suspended vertically about 3 feet off the ground and you have to put the ball into the net. Of course I took the stroke limit on that hole. Then the next hole was again not a hole at all but a flowered shapped bucket full of sand that you had to get the ball up a narrow ramp just so and try to lunch the ball into the bucket. Once again I took the stroke limit.
After that we went to eat at a place called INDIAN JONES, yes it is an Indiana Jones themed resturant in the czech republic. Our food was served to us on huge silver platters and there was very little light. There were Boas and lizards, as well as ancient masks and walls that crumbled when Kelssy touched them. Here is where we found out that a few of us enjoy logic problems so for the rest of the night we were sharing logic problems. The next stop was for more zmrzlina of course and then off to the upper portion of St. Peter and Paul's church. After that it was the hunt for the perfect disco. We found a place called the Crockodial, which played rap, rastafarian, and african music. And had the largest multiracial population we had seen so far. It was so crazy.
And then finally Today. Cass, Kelsey, Irina, Tadia, Arno, Annett, and myself went to a pottery festival in Kunštat. The pottery was beautiful and so was the hours bus ride out there. Oh yeah the bus ride I almost forgot. . how could i forget this. . .So we are waiting for the bus with about 15 other people and are thnking man i hope there are enough seats that we can all get on the bus. Well the bus comes and we all get on but we all had to stand. Then we got to 3 more stops where even more people are entering the bus. By the time we leave Brno, I am squeezed in between both people standing and the seats. I am also trying to eat breakfast and not fall over. This was very tricky but i manged to get it done and only elbowed some one in the head once. But the hour bus ride was not as bad as it seemed, I am getting used to all the standing, walking and crowded means of transportation.
Alright so now that I have wrote way to much I must head out to celebrate some birthdays, catch a movie and then go to a castel on sanday before heading t the theater to see Othello.
