A walk around Prague

No guns!

You gotta love the signs at the bank entrances here in Prague

Visiting hours, and days

Caroline arrived this Friday and she stayed until Wednesday. I've been able to show her Prague and how I live as well as introduced her to my roomies and friends. We had a good time, as well as a bad time but that’s not part of the story.

I finally got my stuff

My parents arrived earlier than I thought they would. The car was brimful of my stuff and it took us quite a while before we were done carrying all my furniture, electronics and clothes. In no time my room floor went from completely empty to being all covered by the big pile of equipment.

I brought my parents a couple of beer and showed them around the flat.
They also brought a lot of food, food that you can’t find in Prague, such as home made blackberry jam, honey, cheese (I went all ‘wtf when I found out there’s no regular cheese – no cheese for three months - ouch), taco ingredients, dried mushrooms, spices, pickled herring and Swedish mustard etc.
Another sweet thing was that now I got all my clothes and can finally put on some nice, clean shirts and pants – after all I’ve been living off my suitcase with two set of clothes only.

Tomorrow is IKEA-time and we'll go there to raid the place once again, this time for my room and I'll try to get some spare things that we need in the common rooms as well.
Since there’s going to be a Freshmen Badge party tonight we’ve invited some friends over for a pre-party. There will be twister, drinking games and a lot of JS drama.

Ps. “JS drama” since Jean and Jax have been watching Jersey Shore a LOT lately and have made me get all into it as well. I usually don’t like series like that but this one is somehow different – great characters, big drama and no fuckin’ competition or rules. Ds.

Enrolment!

Today was the day of the great enrolment. A great day indeed, I must say. I went to the main building of the Foreign Student Department together with Jackie and Jean with a bit of nervousness. Well, nervousness isn’t the right word, you know, more like the feeling of butterflies in your stomach – like when you’re in love – that’s right, I’m in love with the fact that I’m going to Uni.
The first thing we did was to enter a big ensemble hall brimful of students from all different years of the education. I was amazed and utterly happy to finally get into a place in Prague filled with complaisant and smiling people – something that’s not too common by the locals.
We were shown to a wall containing lists of freshmen groups, each of them assigned different “guides”. Our Swedish “group” got divided into different groups, obviously in order to force us to talk to other people, but I didn’t mind that. Sabrina, our group guide, is a third year student with a lot of good information to share. She showed us around campus and told us about the first year randomly interrupted by our questions.

After the 1½ hour walk we went back to the registration room to get some food, more information as well as buying hoodies with the University logo.
We’d been told that the registration process was going to be everlasting and boring, indeed it was but at the same time fun as hell because of the many new faces I could talk to.
I started to talk to one guy especially, Seung Kim from Korea and he seemed to be a really nice guy.
Getting to know new people is going to be a great deal of fun and that’s one of the reasons why I in the end choose to get in a different study group than the other guys from Sweden. No hard feelings mates.

I was the last one to sign in and after this day all my worries sort of disappeared. When I finally got home I was tired from all the information gathering and all the new impressions that I had to take in so I just went to Alex Bistro along with Jax and Jean in order to relax with my PC and a cold dark beer.
Tomorrow I’ll go for a run in the morning and then we’re supposed to be at the ensemble hall again at 10am to hear out the teachers.

In the meantime; cheers!