Doing Just Fine!

It was raining this morning when I woke up. Not a heavy rain, but steady rain. I had to walk back to the copy center to pick up some documents we dropped off yesterday and even though the gentlemen didn't know English, he remembered me. I guess when you say "Dobry den" (pronounced dob-ree den), which means "good day" and is proper to say when you walk in an establishment, sometimes they assume you can say more than that. Well, he started speaking Czech and I gave him that "yeah I'm not understanding you" face and he just shook his head, grinned, and wrote the amount I needed to pay on a piece of paper. Riiight. I gave him the money and said "thank you" in Czech and left. I'll have to get you the spelling of thank you later. The rain ended around 9:30, but b/c it was still wet it meant no rubbings in the Jewish cemetery. So Anael guided us to a European poster exhibit. Kind of interesting. Anael returned to the institute which meant I had to guide the students back to the institute. Success! We didn't get lost at all. I'm really thankful to God for a decent sense of direction or at least being able to visually remember. Because trust me, those students weren't paying any attention on how to get back.

I grabbed some fruit from the market, which I'm in love, for lunch. All of the fruits, vegetables and souvenirs they have are so appealing even though not all of them are locally grown. These pictures are especially for my gardening grandma. The way she and my uncles take care of their garden, I bet they could have a stand at the market.


Tonight, we went to the opera. As we were coming out of the metro station I looked up and saw Neyo (the R&B artist) and his girlfriend coming our way. I had to tell someone, but wasn't sure how familiar these students would be with him. So I asked the girl walking beside me if she knew who he was and at first she said "No". Then she said "Oh the rapper!" and I didn't want to correct her b/c I don't consider him a rapper, but said "yes" just to get to the point. She said she knew who I was talking about and I told her that he was right behind us. She looked and was like "Oh my goodness, let me take your picture with him." Uh, No! He was just chilling and no one was bothering him so I didn't want to be the one to draw attention to him. So she convinced me to let her take this picture.

He is there on the right in his signature black hat. I don't know how to zoom on this computer when cropping a picture so that's the best I could do for now. Oh I figured it out.

The opera we saw was "Prodana nevesta". It was a light harded comedy about love. They sang in Czech, but at the top of the stage were English subtitles so I was good. I would read the subtitles and then look at what they were doing on the stage because I felt like they said most phrases twice. It was kinda long (3 hours), but entertaining. One of the students at the end said "everyone should experience the opera at least once." I think that was "once" for all of us.

Outside and inside the National Theater. In the first shot you will see the Graphic Design and Industrial Design students. Right above their heads is the "dancing lady". This image moves back and forth and sways to the beat inside her head. In the second shot, I am standing with Dr. Sawyers (accounting instructor) during one of the two intermissions of the opera.


I haven't seen a "Welcome to Prague" sign. Perhaps that's just a U.S. thing. Welcome to Virginia, Welcome to North Carolina, Welcome to Las Vegas. However, when we were leaving the National Theater tonight I was excited to see "PRAHA" in lights. This will do!