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There are cer­tain par­tic­u­lar things I find inter­est­ing about Prague. Firstly, there are no fat peo­ple, the extent of fat stops at a gut, and with beer at two dol­lars a pint, its hard to blame them. Sec­ondly, see­ing a black per­son is rare, the only ones I’ve met so far have been try­ing to bring me to some kind of red light dis­tract, lit­er­ally every sin­gle one so far. Thirdly, this city is absolutely amaz­ing, every­thing from the cob­ble stone streets to the cheap food, so far I haven’t had much to com­plain about.

Walk­ing around, almost every­thing feels older then any­thing built in Van­cou­ver. In the main areas of Prague, almost every build­ing you run into looks like it was build hun­dreds of years ago. Its funny because while most places look amaz­ing, we didn’t get so lucky, it doesn’t get more com­mu­nist then Kolej Komen­ského, our dormitory.

Sur­pris­ingly, there is quite a bit of vari­ety in this city when it comes to food, and for those of you who know me, that is a key fac­tor when it comes to hav­ing a good time any­where. So far, the cheap­est place to eat seems to be Chi­nese, where you can get a plate of food for about 60CZ, or 4 dol­lars. They also have a lot of Ital­ian restau­rants, but they seem to be sit­u­ated more towards down­town then they are in our neigh­bor­hood (about 20 min away from the down­town core of Old/New Town Prague). My favorite so far has def­i­nitely been Czech Cui­sine, where I had Chicken topped with cheese and pep­per­oni, with a side of fried pota­toes, although it was a bit pricey, so I in the end my wal­let will save me from heart clog­ging awesomeness.

Now, there are a cou­ple things that do bother me, but they are so minor that its not that big a deal, but I’ll share any­ways. So far, the worst thing about the Czech Repub­lic is that if you ask for water in a restau­rant, its not free, its bot­tled. I’m guess­ing its because the tap water here is less then san­i­tary, but still, I’m quite used to Van­cou­ver in this sense. Sec­ondly, so far this isn’t that big of a deal, but I’m sure it will be even­tu­ally; Room 220 is made up of about seven smaller rooms that fit up to 10 stu­dents, and it con­tains 1 bath­room. There is going to have to be some solid coor­di­na­tion going on up in this bitch. Oh, and there is no fan in the bathroom.

And finally, this is what is going to force me to go for a run every so often, unless I want to get a job a Santa when I get back, it’ll be that time of season!

Any­ways, so far we have just been set­tling in, explor­ing the city, and worst of all, get­ting adjusted to the time zone, I didn’t think jet lag would be this hard to get used to. It’ll get really crazy once all the other stu­dents move in, so until then, I’ll leave you with some pic­ture albums:

Going to Prague

Prague Day 1

Ciao!