Myah Myah. . .

So it's quite warm in Prague. They've been saying it's the warmest Spring Prague has had in over 100 years. . . Global warming? Maybe? oh it's mid 70's btw.

So this past week, we had a bunch of Serbians living with us in the hotel. A bunch of rowdy, adolescent, Serbian, Handball, playing boys. Annoying kids...

Ok story time. So one of the girls in our group was using one of the two computers downstairs to you know, check email and look up things on facebook. So she's sitting there minding her business, with a bunch of the Serbians in the lobby doing what they do (which pretty much is just being creepy and annoying). So her roomate went down to the lobby to use the computers to, and saw that the girl who was using the computer (Kristen)'s profile on facebook, was not only open on her computer, but open on the other computer the Serbian boy was using too.

So Sarah, the roomate, says, "Kristen? Why is your profile on his computer too?" And to that they both look at the Serbian boy, and he says, "Add to friend?" AHAHAHA!

That little creep was looking up Kristen while she was on her own facebook!

so creepy.

Anyway now they're gone and the hotel is quite once again.

SO! Recapping the...6th.

We went to Strahov Monastary which near Petrin Hill and leads down towards the castle grounds. Anyway, we started there, went into a super old library with old books and highly decorated rooms. They also had creepy preserved birds and animals and glued on google-y eyes on them which made them even more creepy.

So after that we headed down to the castle where we explored the courtyards, took in the views, and sketch some more.


Crazy blocks huh?


HAH Just Kidding! Actually it's a technique they call sgraffito. They actually etch the facade of the building so it exposes the dark underside to create the illusion that the structure is made of 3d blocks. But really. It's pretty much 2D
Me standing awkwardly in front of Prague Castle
Professor Louise Shiller telling us something important.

On the castle grounds is a wonderful cathedral called St. Vitus. We were there are a magical time of the day. The rose window, which is the stained glass window that is ususally on the top of the face of the cathedral, was emitting a orange and purple glow onto the collumns of the cathedral!



It was spectacular. St. Vitus is my favorite Cathedral/ Church thus far. It just has a real magical, but not scary feel to it.

After that, we continued through the grounds, mapping out in our sketch books the series of spaces we were traveling through. Eventually we came to a part called the golden alley. Here there was a gate with guards telling us we had to pay to enter. And so the entire class was like, meh, we don't need to see it. Why should we pay for that. But our professor insisted that we see and proceeded to drop 100 dollars of our student fees for the 16 of us to walk down this alley. . . look at the pictures. . .



I guess using me as a scale doesn't really add to the drama of how short these doors are since i'm short. hahaha
Jeofferey could not stop laughing. He could not believe we spent so much money to walk down this tiny alley. Yes it was interesting to look at, because of the tiny stores and dramatic change of scale, but really for 100 dollars? I don't know about that.

Any hoo I don't remember what we did after that. . . oh nm yes I do. A couple of us who lagged behind ended up eating dinner at this pizza place with our professor. It was fun, and it was interesting to hear our professor loosen her tounge and talk about our department and strange things you wouldn't think an older professor would talk about. And that then concluded the day.
I leave you with a picture of this beautiful city.