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October 17, 2006
Yes! I am in Europe!
Believe it or not fine friends that i am indeed writting on my blog! I know, try not to have a heartattach.
Ok, two things before i start blogging, 1 On the Czech keyboard i am typing to you right now the z and the y are in different places. So, if i am tryng to say the word my for example i might accidently type it as mz. 2 I can not type my entery in word and then copy and paste it, so i may have many misspelled words... sorry about that! 3 all the gramatical marks are in different places, so if i screw up periods and commas and things like that, you know why.
With that said, a big hello from Europe and the Czech Republic! I arrived in Prauge safely on Friday the 13th, whewh, and stayed the weekend there until i travled by train to Havirov, Czech Republic. I'll start off with filling you in a little bit about the trip and my initial impressions, and will have to elaborate more a little bit latter. Right now I am at an internet cafe paying for my internet service, but within the next week or so we are hoping to have internet at our flat, or apartment as you may call it.
From Chicago, we flew the German airline Luftanze, to Frankfort Germany. The flight went great, a little turbulance here and there, but all in all not too bad. As i already e-mailed some of you, when i fly, my most favorite thing to do is look at the clouds. Yeah, I know that i am a dork, but there is just something about flying above those big puffy things that i love. We also watched some great movies, including the Lake House, which I REALLY wanted to see. In the end though, i was a bit dissapointed, and a little confused. Oh well, it was still a good movie to watch on a 7 hour flight. We had a bit of a layover in Frankfort and then flew from Germany to Prauge, where we were thrown off of the plane into the brave new world. Notice here friends who like to make fun of me for spelling plane wrong, that i just used the right kind of plane...
Alright, so i will admit it, getting off the plane and adventuring into a country where i didn't know the language was VERY scary. First, Jennifer and I could not read any of the signs. My dad tells me before i go, yeah, most of the airports have signs in English when you travel in Europe... well Prauge didn't. We followed the arrows and somehow found our way out. Next, we needed to find our way to the hotel. We didn't want to get a taxi that would rip us off, so we tried our best to find a service that was legit. Again, a bit stressful seeing that we couldn't communicate with anz of the drivers. So, we picked a Taxi, got our luggage loaded in, and pointed to the paper where the address of our hotel was written. By God¨s grace we got to the right hotel about 15 minutes later.
I am sorry that this might seem very short and vauge today, but again, i am on a time limit. Next time I will let you know about how the weekend in Prauge went, and how my frist day of school went, which was today.
I'll keep you updated as much as possible and can't wait to tell you all about my trip to the grocery store... oh man, it was quite an adventure.
Chow everyone!
Amber
Posted by Amber Ruppert at October 17, 2006 11:38 AM
Comments
"try not to have a heartattach"
Czech keyboard strikes again, or freudian slip? :)
Posted by: Matt at October 18, 2006 10:40 AM
hurry up and finish those adventures so you can COME HOME. our room is too clean without you!
Posted by: Autumn at October 18, 2006 12:38 PM
I'm happy you are there safe. Not to add to your already growing list but "chow" is spelled Ciao. :) Love you and miss you tons.
Posted by: Elizabeth Fisher at October 18, 2006 12:59 PM
Getting outta the airport is the first step to success.
Posted by: Sarah D at October 18, 2006 10:07 PM
Did you read about the girl with the guys name yet?
Posted by: paul at October 18, 2006 11:21 PM
You were in Chicago and you didn't visit? I guess I can forgive you ;)
Posted by: Tom at October 20, 2006 09:09 AM