A weekend in Cesky Krumlov and an AMAZING Sunday!

Hey all! I am sorry for the delay in posting. I have been super busy with midterms and traveling. Friday our entire group left for Chesky Krumlov. It is a small town about 2 and a half hours away. When we arrived Friday afternoon, we had a couple hours to walk around and do a little shopping. Then at three we had a hour long tour of the castle there. It was so awesome and huge! After the tour we had the rest of Friday and Saturday to do what we wanted. Friday after the tour I went back to our hotel and slept for a couple hours while Nikki was taking an amazing bath in our rooms Huge bath tub. When she was finished I was up and had an amazing bubble bath! Our room was so cute but very small. Plus with us just taking two baths our room was very hot. Nikki and I started to get claustrophobic and I guess sense a little culture shock. We both just had random thoughts and watching the news didn't help. So when we finally went out, we got some dinner and then I went dancing for a little bit with the group. It was not that fun because the place where we were was full of smoke and people drinking. Saturday was so fun. A big group of us went rafting! It was a BLAST! After that we all got dinner and then the bus picked us up and we headed back to Prague. Sunday was so amazing. Nikki, myself and Janet were able to witness a local girls baptism and were invited to say after for what they call "Fat Sunday". In America it is called "Linger Longer". The spirit I felt was so strong and missionaries were so amazing. We ended up staying there for SIX hours! The best six hours ever. Usually in church I am tired and really don't pay to much attention but I was taking notes writing everything down anyone said. Plus I have started reading more at night when reading alone. Being here has really made me realize how much I appreciate my mom and the little things like not having to pay to use a public bathroom. I realize how grateful I am for my amazing friends and what an impact they have on me. Thank you all for everything you do for me. Tonight Nikki and I went to the Book of Mormon class at the church and had a blast. We have really made some good friends with sisters in the ward and the sister missionaries and elders. Well I hope you enjoy. Love you all big! Oh p.s. My camera died our first day there so I didn't get alot of pictures.

Long day

Hey all! Today was a VERY long and fun day. Today in my Ideo class we watched a movie on WWII. It was a very good long movie. After the movie and class that ended at about 11:20am we had time for a lunch break and then had to meet back up at Prague College to go meet out tour guide for the Jewish Quarter. We went to 4 different Synagogue's and saw the old Jewish Cemetery. All of these are found in what used to be the old Ghetto. It was a very eye opening experience and taking it all in was amazing. That tour went from 2:30 to about 5:40. It was long and by the end my feet were killing me! But in one of the old synagogue's they had names of all the Jews killed there. I found on the wall the last name Greenburg( It was spelled kind of different). That is my Great grandpas last name. I'm not sure if there is any connection, but it was crazy to see that and think there might be some connection. We saw a lot of old clothes and pictures, and much more. After the tour a bunch of us went to dinner. It was such a blast. Here costumer service is not big so it is rude to ask for your bill and ask them to hurry. Dinner here is like an all night ordeal. Again it has been raining all day, no surprise there. But it is nice to be in the rain. This weekend both classes are going to Bohemia to go on a tour of one of the castles and then the rest of the weekend is free. I think a lot of us are going rafting. We have heard it is a good place for that. So I wont be bloging for a few days, sorry. Well I think Nikki and I are going to die her hair, well only some and then pack for tomorrow and go to be. I love and miss you all!!

Karlstein Castle

Hey all! Today was a very eventful day. We had the pleasure of having another guest speaker in my Political Ideologies class. She was amazing. She talked about Fascism and communism and how it affected her life and how it affected many different countries. In my Art History class we went on a tour of the Karlstein Castle. Oh man it was something else. When we first arrived there, there was about a mile hike to the top where the castle was. Well we all decided to pitch in and take a carriage! It was so fun! When we finally got to the castle it started raining very hard and it was freezing out. We were not allowed to take pictures in the castle so all the ones are of us outside. The tour took about 2 hours when it should have only taken about seventy minutes. We almost missed our bus back home. The driver of the bus I swear drove like a 5 year old. I guess he was running late and the drive home was about an hour, so he decided to drive like a CRAZY man to try and make it on time. I think I got some pretty serious wip lash. He was seriously trying to kill us. Oh ha I finally did laundry today! Let me tell you how nice it is to have clean clothes! I am hoping that will last me until I come home. Oh all of you keep Ethan in your prayers. He is sick and could us the help hehe. Well I love you all but I need to get prayers and scripture reading done. Love you all with all my heart!!!!!!!! Sweet dreams my loves.

Budapest

Hey everyone! Sorry for the delay on a new post, I have been in Budapest for the last 3 days and did not have time to post. So Budapest was for sure amazing! The train ride there was horrible ha. The cars were very small and there were three beds on top of each other. Me and Lix ended up having to sleep on the very top bunk. This stunk because we always would forget how close we were to the ceiling and hit our heads. When we first got there it was about 10 in the morning and we had a couple hours to do whatever before we went to listen to a guest speaker. He talked about communism and WWII and how it affected Hungary. After that we had the rest of the day to explore and do whatever we wanted to. Donna, Jane, Liz and I just walked around and looked in shops and messed around. Saturday morning our class met up and went to the House of Terror. That night we went to this bridge that had tons of fun things going on. Shops and food stands were set up all along the sides of the bridge. At the end of the bridge on both sides were bands playing different kinds of music. Later that night me, Donna, and Jane went dancing and had a great time. There are so many good looking guys here ha ha I'm guessing nine out of ten are naturally good looking. Sunday we hand to be out of our hotel rooms by noon and had the day to do whatever until six thirty when we met back up at the hotel to leave for the train station. Our train was and hour late. Me and Liz were on a mission to get the two middle bunks ha ha and we did. Our train ride back took to long because it stopped many times in the night to let other trains pass so they could be on time. But during the night there was an awesome storm and I was able to watch the lightening and the rain hit the window. It kind of made me feel like I was in Sioux Falls again. Today was kind of a lazy day because I was dead tired and missed class because I was kind feeling under the weather and decided to sleep today. Me, Nikki, Donna, and Kyle took the tram to the other side of the river and did what we like to call "Souvie" shopping. We found some cute things and I bought the cutest jacket for 200 K, which would be about 17 dollars in U.S money. It was an amazing buy! Well I am off to bed so I will feel good for tomorrows classes. Goodnight all. Love you

Fun Pictures

New Moon. . . Addicted

Dinner Party

So tonight we had a huge dinner party, with all of the Mcc students and some of the NYC students that are here. Each of us made a little something to bring. It was way fun and a good way to meet people. Everyone decided that we would eat the dinner in mine and Nikki tiny little kitchen on our floor. Some how everyone fit. Oh and here is what happens when you wear shoes walking that are not comfortable. This is what you do to fix it. Nikki and I decided to do a little surgery on my heal. No worries it only hurt a little.

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First day...

Today was the first day of classes and they were intense! In my Political Ideologies class we had a guest speaker and he was awesome. I'm not sure how to write his name so I don't want to butcher it. He talked to us for about 2 and half hours about The Czech Republic from 1920 to day. It was hard to understand a lot of what he said because of his accent. Which was really cool. Then I had about a thirty minute brake for lunch before my next class Art History. That class was packed full of 2 and a half hours of all different kinds of artists. I cant wait until Thursday when we get a tour of Prague castle. When class was over me and Nikki walked home to make a quick little lunch and then go explore! But I ended up not feeling good, I'm guessing to the lack of sleep, so I tried to read but ended up falling asleep for a few hours. Ha i better get this time difference in gear pretty soon or all I will be doing is sleep! and that will not be good. Tonight I am planning to go out to dinner with another friend name Liz and her roommate Jane. Well I hope you all have a great day!

Hey everyone! Today we had orientation at Prague college and took another tour of the city. The tour was not as much fun today because it was raining the whole tour and we were walking. It was still amazing just freezing outside. My legs are so sore from all the walking and going up and down the stairs. My dorm room is on the 4th floor and the buildings here are super tall. I bet I have done more walking here in the past three days then in the the past year haha. My leg muscles are going to be AMAZING when I get home. When we got back from the 2 hour tour that ended up being about 3 hours I tried to read New moon but was falling asleep and took about a 3 hour nap. I am still not used to the time change yet. Here we are 9 hours ahead. I just got back from going out with some of the roomates getting drinks and talking. Well I am going to try and sleep, we start school tomorrow bright and eairly! Goodnight

A long flight and three days...

Hey everyone! So I made it to Prague safe and sound. Our flight left Thursday night and because of that freak storm that came our plane just sat on the run way for about three hours until we finally took off. I just thinks it funny that the one time it decides to rain it happens to be on the same day we leave. Anyways, I slept for most of the flight and read New Moon. When we landed in London due to the storm, we ended up missing our connecting flight to Prague. We were able to get on the later flight and spent a couple hours in the London airport. When we landed in London it was raining and our connecting flight was half and hour late. I think the rainy weather from Arizona followed us the London and then to Prague! Yep you heard me right it was raining when we arrived in Prague! When we arrived a bus was waiting for us to take us to the dorms. When we arrived at the dorms we found our rooms and all of us decided to get ready and go out. Let me tell you that was a mistake because I am so tired now! We did not stay out long but it is hard to sleep at night because 2 am here it is 5 pm back home. On Friday we took a short tour to Prague college and around New town and then made our way to Old town. Okay so the pictures do not compare to the real thing. I can not even describe how amazing everything is. Then after touring all day, all of us met up at the dorms and then we all got ready and went to dinner. It was a blast getting to know everyone better. After dinner we went dancing! It was way fun but it is way different here. Today me and my roommate Nikki went to church! Yes my roommate is LDS! I was so excited when I found out. We both were worried that we were the only ones until we met up at the airport. Exciting right. Church was amazing. We took the tram and thought we were lost but we were on the right street the whole time. It was raining the whole time we were lost outside. Then we spotted the sister missionaries and found out we just needed to go down the street a little further. The church was a little building on the corner of a street. It was a blast being there and we had a translator so we knew what the talks were about and everything. There were more Americans there then I thought would be. Ha the missionaries were happy to see us. After church we can back to the dorms and slept all afternoon. Well I am going either to play games with everyone or go to bed. Love you all!