Sunday, July 1, 2012

Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday!

This title is to be said with the announcer voice like "Sunday, Sunday, Sunday!"
Anywho, Tuesday we woke up early to go to Ledice. I was still feeling really under the weather and stuffy, but you do what you can.
We took the metro to a bus stop where we would catch a bus that would take us to Ledice in about 20 minutes. As we are waiting, what appears to be another school group walks up to the same stop. They are Czech and are staring at us. It seems like there are too many people to fit on the bus, but out teacher hands out the money so we can buy our tickets. When the bus comes, we all line up in front of the first door to buy our tickets, and the teacher from the other group goes through the second door and cuts in front of all of us to buy tickets for his whole class. They start getting seats from the second door as we are all still buying tickets.
I have a few choice words for this man.
By the time I get on the bus there is standing room only. You'd think some of the guys from the other group would have the decency to let girls sit down (especially girls who kept coughing and blowing their nose).
When the bus ride was finally over I let people from the other class out of the bus before me, only one of them said "thank you". Whatever.
Ledice was cold. I was not expecting cold weather because the entire week since we returned from Vienna has been warm, no jacket required. When we got to Ledice we all took a quick bathroom/food break and then met up to watch a video. It was nothing we didn't already know. Townspeople were blamed for a connection to Heidrich's assassination and so the men were all taken out and shot, and women and children were sent to work camps. The entire town was burned to the ground.
After the movie was a small exhibit with pictures and things. After that we were allowed to walk around by ourselves, I walked with a couple other people in the area where the town used to be; there was the remaining foundation of the farm where all the men were shot, a grouping of sculptures which acted as a memorial to the children, and a recreated foundation of the church. After walking around we went to the end of the rebuilt town to watch another movie. I fell asleep.
We went to wait for the bus after that and headed home.
I tried to nap for a little bit before getting ready for the dinner cruise.
When we got to the boat, we were all handed shots of something that is a drink that helps you digest or something. I took it with everyone else just to try, it was awful and my nose burned in a really bizarre kind of way.
The dinner was a buffet and there was chicken, sliced meats, cheeses, olives, bread, and some other things. As well as crepes and cake for dessert.
Everyone got on the top of the boat for a farewell speech from the teachers, and in the middle of the program director speaking, fireworks started going off. It was a really fun show, and one of the teachers said they planned it, but I don't know (at the jazz thing I went to the next night, fireworks went off from the same place).
When we all got back to the dorms, a group of us were in a sing-songy mood so we went down to the basement to sing along with classic rock songs from our ipods. Apparently everyone wants my music library.

1 comment:

  1. Hey girl hey! Wish you were staying in Prague with me,what am I going to do without the daily blog posts! Anyways, yes we all want your ipod tunes haha. Glad you guys made your flight:)
    Kell

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