Alas, Babylon!

When the hour's late and fires low :: Remember back to long ago :: To an ancient age forever gone :: The glory of lost Babylon!

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:: Saturday, September 17, 2005 ::

Pilgrim's Prague-ress

Ahoj from the lands of Bohemia and Moravia!

Yes, I'm finally back online after a longer time than I had planned, so my apologies to all who have been eagerly awaiting my next post for some news, and to those who may have thought I had fallen off the face of the earth.

I am in Prague now (in the suburbs of Prague 11, actually, somewhere between Chodov and Opatov) and indeed have been for 24 days now. Sadly, I just got internet at home this past week, and I have been so busy that I really haven't had time to send out emails or update my blog until now.

My teacher training course is going well, but it's very intensive. For the past three weeks, 12-hour days have not been uncommon, with an additional 2-3 hours of homework on top of that. Weekends haven't been much better: no classes, but plenty of assignments and lesson plans to work on. I've been in Prague for almost a month now, and besides wandering around the Old Town a couple of days before my program started, and quick trips to Karlstein Castle and the Prague Zoo, I haven't been able to be a tourist at all. Fortunately, there's only one week left in the program, so I hope to be able to get out more and see some sights.

Prague is very nice, and very beautiful, as they all say, but of course there are hordes of tourists everywhere. I've even successfully given directions to poor, lost tourists, so apparently I've become a real Praguer already! Out in the burbs where I live, of course, it's not quite as beautiful. I have a flat (US: apartment) in a nice gray communist tower block, complete with tiny, rickety lift (US: elevator) scrawled with graffiti and painted a delightfully horrid 70s shade of orange. But my Polka dot and I have already been to IKEA to spruce the place up a little bit, and once we both are pulling in steady salaries, we hope to be able to do more.

Opatov's not so bad, though. It's a 5-10 minute walk to the Metro station (or you can take a bus if the weather is bad), and then another 20 minutes on the Metro to get to the center. I'm looking forward to being a tourist again after next week.

Of course, then the job hunting starts. Ugh. Wish me luck...

So goodbye for now, and start checking back again - I should be updating more frequently now that I have internet and (hopefully) time.

:: posted by Rob 9:57 AM [+] ::
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