Prague!!!

So in case you couldn't tell from the title, I'm in Prague right now using one of the computers at the youth hostel.

We had to leave on the bus at 6:45 am yesterday morning, but the ride was only two hours or so. When we got here we had to exchange our euros for krones (although most places will accept euros as well.) It was pretty scary being in a new country where we didn't speak any of the language. Silke knew her way around pretty well, so she got us on the metro to downtown. Once there we had an hour to wander around before our Sightseeing Bus Tour. Lin, Anthony, and I found a Headshop that sold Absinthe-Lime slushies, so of course we couldn't pass that up! (Hopefully Silke doesn't read this blog...)

Prague has some really nice old castles and churches, but the city itself seems rather dilapidated. There's a lot of graffiti everywhere, and it definitely reminds me of what I heard about Communist East Germany. Downtown was nice and clean, but our hostel is in the ghetto-fab part of town (at least the food and drinks are cheap here!) Our hostel is really nice too. We got a room just for the 7 of us, so we don't have to worry about locking our stuff up or sharing space with strangers.

We also made friends with two Swedish guys who live next door! They're doing the classic Eurotrip before they start college. They were planning to take a train to Paris from Amsterdam, but the tickets were too expensive so they just got on the cheapest night train, which happened to be going to Prague! I wish we could travel like that. BU or our RA's always try to plan everything out for us, and if we want to leave Dresden we need to fill out an "Official Travel Request" form at least three days ahead of time with our complete itinerary and phone numbers and addresses for where we're staying. So annoying. Even when I only went to Hamburg last weekend I had to send Silke an email when I left and when I got back. Also the RA's are pissing me off because they asked if I wanted to stay in Berlin for the weekend, and I said yes, but then they went out and booked a hostel bed for me without even asking! Since Oli is going we're probably going to stay in a hostel together, and if he wasn't I would have stayed with my friends in Berlin. It's just so annoying when they assume that we can't take care of ourselves. Now I have to pay my RA back for the room deposit! And this is why when you assume something you make an ass of u and me, kids.

Ok, I know you wanted to read about Prague and not just hear my bitching. Definitely the best part of the day (and the reason I wanted to stay the weekend) was Karlovy Lazne, a 5 floor dance club downtown. I thought every floor was going to be techno, but only the second was. The first floor and fourth floor were old hiphop and pop (like 5-10 years old) and the 3rd floor and 5th floor were more 80's and 90's music. Each floor was packed and had sweet laser lights and fog machines (plus light-up floors <3!)

Oh the but the 2nd floor...it was exactly what I imagined techno heaven to be like, minus the creepy guys lol. There was a giant iron woman statue with green lasers all over her body and red lasers shooting out of her eyes. The DJ was on an elevated stage behind a strobe light and fog machine, but I could still see him pretty well. The sides of the dance floor were elevated so people could dance up there at the edge of the crowd, and there was also an elevated section with blue floor pads and red lasers shooting down out of the ceiling! The two shots of Absinthe I drank really enhanced the experience as well. :-) The speakers had the perfect level of bass and of course it was synced up with the strobe lights. The music was all techno and eurodance of course with a bit of House (Swedish House Mafia FTW!)

Ok we're going now! Ciao!