i suck at keeping up with this.

And now for the update I really did write today!

Sorry to keep you in suspense about my adventures for so long haha! It's surprising how "little time" I feel like I have here. When I last left you I was off to Berlin. Sadly, Berlin did not see me. Mallory & I set off towards the bus station, in the direction we were told to go by the lady who sold us the bus tickets, but she lied to us. We ended up going to a whole other far side of town, and by the time we figured out where we really were supposed to be, got back on the tram to go there, made a mad dash for the bus, we got there to find no yellow bus in sight. And miraculously we had made it just on time. Some guy waiting for his bus said sometimes they run late, so we waited until a yellow bus showed up 20 minutes later, but it wasn't ours and the driver said that bus had already come through.. which meant it left early. Well we decided since we had a return ticket we'd just catch a train to Prague, then Dresden and finally Berlin. We got to the train station with an hour or so until the next scheduled train to Prague, and the lady there wouldn't sell us tickets! She just kept saying "no, no." We then decided since it was going to cost more money to get to Berlin than we would have actually spent the whole weekend there, that it just wasn't worth it. Needless to say we were pretty bummed. We just really wanted to see the Brandenburg Gate, which is the symbol of Germany, (among other awesome things in Berlin of course!) but that didn't happen unfortunately. A few kids had stayed around for the weekend so we all hung out, did some grilling, all that good stuff. Our Friday grill out also included a 5 hour marathon of The Office. That was wonderful. That Saturday four of us took a train to Brno, which is the 2nd biggest city in the CR, and spent the afternoon there. We saw a cathedral and walked around the palace, and played frisbee on the royal grounds.. that was pretty cool.

I spent this past weekend in Olomouc as well. Much like last weekend, with a lot of grilling and hanging out lol. Thursday went to a festival and saw a band from Prague that's apparently pretty big in the CR, and they were pretty good! Friday night we went dancing which was fun. Saturday I went to the Olomouc zoo, which was pretty cool. They had a pen of goats that you could go into, so I went in a held a baby goat - probably my favorite part of the zoo haha! It was just so darn cute! They had a lot of cool animals, but unfortunately we went during sleeping time so most of the animals were a little less than energetic. But it was still pretty cool. I don't know if I've ever mentioned how everyone brings their dogs everywhere here, but if I didn't now is a perfect time. People take their dogs everywhere, into stores, McDonalds, the trains, and the zoo! Quite interesting huh?

Our group is no longer the only group of Americans in Olomouc. Last week a ton of kids from Georgia came. There's about 30 of them from Valdosta State who live at the other set of dorms across town by the University, and another group that's kind of from a lot of places, about 30 of them as well. We kind of feel like our territory is being invaded lol, we really liked being the only Americans.. and we've met a few of them, and they're kind of the stereotypical Americans in Europe.. and I don't think our group was like that, we adjusted really well. Oh well right?

We're all starting to freak out a little because Wednesday we have our Czech language final... this language is so hard! So lots and lots of studying will be done today and tomorrow to get ready for that, and then Monday is our last day of classes. Tuesday we'll be leaving for Southern Bohemia and we'll be there for 4 days, come back and then we have the last weekend and week free before heading back to the states. A good friend of mine just arrived in Italy for a month study abroad there, so I'm trying to get there for a few days that last week.. we'll see if $$ allows that to happen! :)