Monday, June 25, 2012

More Tea

Last night for dinner I tried to make my Czech spaghettios. But it was more like dehydrated pasta...so red sauce and pasta in shapes of planes, trains, and cars; the picture looked good but the directions were in Czech, so I decided to use Google translate just to be sure (I have made dehydrated food before and it's usually not too difficult).
This is what is translated to:


Instructions for preparation
topping the dustbag to 0.75 liters of cold water and stir well.
Soup Clearly, stirring occasionally to the boil and simmer for 12 minutes.

Well. Seems simple enough, so I did what it said and it was terrible. The noodles weren't even cooked. So I fail at life and ate a bowl of cereal.
Everyone left when Ali and I were pretending to go to sleep. It took me a while to finally get to sleep because of my congestion, but I was able to sleep through the night.
Fast forward to this morning, I woke up and my throat felt even worse. But that's how it always is in the mornings. I made breakfast and took a shower, still blowing my nose every 5 seconds and feeling overall messed up. I had another cup of Earl Grey with no sugar or honey. Meh.
The lecture was good, but I kept having to get up to blow my nose or cough my lungs out. It was delightful.
One cool thing we learned was that in most of Europe, the term "liberal" means slightly right of center, whereas in America it means leftist. It's part of a neoliberalism movement, according to Dr. Pehe:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism
After the lecture, Ali, Kelly, another guy from class, and I went to a tea house called Dobre that Kelly loves. I had a pot of Earl Grey (surprise) and pita with cinnamon sugar. The pita was amazing.
After that we walked to a movie theatre where they sell posters and shirts, I bought a poster for my boyfriend. We then walked across the street to this tiny record store called Happy Feet. I love records, but I usually buy them used so I think I must be spoiled with prices (Hospice of the Valley donation center, for example, sells 10 records for $1). The records in this store all seemed to be new, and they were all between 5 and 10 USD. I was thinking about getting some kind of Czech jazz record but I don't want to risk carrying it on the plane, and I don't know if I want to spend the money. It was also crowded so I might try to go back later and ask the lady who was working if she has any recommendations.
Tonight I am going to a Czech movie subtitled in English with Ali and Kelly so that should be fun!

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