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By Cari, on January 28th, 2008%
Prague Airport Drives Homeless out of its Premises
I think it’s an interesting step by the Prague government to deal with the homelessness issue, I wonder how it would effect those of us who look less vagrant?
Yes, I’m thinking back to May when I spent the night at Prague Airport. To be honest, I didn’t notice a huge number of homeless. That was far more of a problem at Praha Hlavní Nádraží when I’d head there to catch a train. Then again, it wasn’t the depth of winter either.
Judging by Prague’s section in Budget Traveller’s Guide to Sleeping in Airports, I’m . . . → Keep Going: but what about the rest of us?
By Cari, on October 17th, 2007%
‘Zine Proves Prague Students are More than Tourists … interesting article in yesterday’s Washington Square News.
“We want to expand our perspective, see each other as locals might and constantly push the limits of our role as tourists,” wrote Duke University junior Casey Dean and NYU’s Billy O’Hare, the magazines editors-in-chief, in a letter featured on the site.
I was vaguely aware of The Prague Wanderer, currently in its second semester, while in Prague this summer but it didn’t seem to have much relevance to our short summer term. I think it’s definitely a good idea to push not only beyond the . . . → Keep Going: More than Tourists
By Cari, on June 7th, 2007%
Two weeks in and one class down.
We basically wrapped yesterday with a tour of the Prague Sports’ Facilities including Sazka Arena, Czech Lawn-Tennis Club (where Navratilova trained before immigrating to the US) and Toyota Arena, home to AC Sparta. We had a great tour of Sazka and received a book about the development of the arena, and were even allowed on the field at Toyota. Even not being much of a soccer fan, that was pretty cool. Although we didn’t have a tour of the tennis center I enjoyed seeing pictures of Martina, since she was Queen at the time . . . → Keep Going: Prague: 2 Weeks In
By Cari, on May 31st, 2007%
So according to Flight Memory, I’ve flown 112,781 miles since August 2001. I’m not sure whether I expected that to be higher or lower, but I wish there were an equivalent for the bus since apparently the circumfrence of Australia is 10,000 miles and I doubled up in some areas and also went up and down the middle. Re: flight travel, I could go back further but I’m not sure I’ll remember all flights and I don’t think it will add a significant amount with the exception of London in December 2000 and Spain in April 1996. Translation the . . . → Keep Going: Distance Travelled/River Cruise/Tickets Booked
By Cari, on May 29th, 2007%
Well, mostly on foot. We “cheat” and take the number 11 tram from Pod Jezerkhou (on the bottom in the middle) to Muzeum but that’s because it’s way too hilly and/or early.
We had a very interesting lecture this morning from Jiri Pehe, the Director of the NYU in Prague program. I had a rough idea of Czech/Czechoslovakian history, but loved all the holes he filled in. Of course like any good lecture, it left me wanting to know more so I spent part of the afternoon on a quest for books. Came up empty, but I’ll find some when I get . . . → Keep Going: Prague on Foot/Skype/Citibank, etc.
By Cari, on May 28th, 2007%
except it’s not a very good vocab lesson because I still don’t know the word.
On our way back from ‘class’ (more on that later) this AM, I wanted to stop for bandaids because my new shoes chewed up my feet. I brought bandaids with me but they didn’t stick very well in the heat under the strap of the shoes. So I go into the drug store near the apartments and ask for a ‘band aid’. Got offered a tampon, then a pad. Finally I slipped off the sandals and showed him the blisters.
I got a box of “Bang-Ze”s. . . . → Keep Going: Czech Vocab Lesson: Band Aid
By Cari, on May 27th, 2007%
When I can’t figure something out, i.e. the coin operated cold drink dispenser in the local shop, I think people will expect it. After all, I’m a foreigner. And then I realize that I don’t look like one. When that happened in Spain, it didn’t seem abnormal because I was only one month removed from Japan, but now it’s been a year. I’m surprised it hit me the way it did. Of course the whole foreigner thing (as well as thinking ikura desu ka? when I was wanting to ask the price of something in the shop) is further complicated by . . . → Keep Going: Gaijin…but I don’t look it
By Cari, on May 26th, 2007%
*blink* *blink* what country am I in again? It’s been a fun ~48 hours, but it’s also been a whirlwind.
8 AM flight from EWR to LHR on Thursday was uneventful and I cleared immigration in good time due to there being very few non-EU/UK passport holders on the flight so our line zipped ahead. Because my backpack was checked through to Prague, I had nothing to collect or declare. A quick call to Gemma and I was on my way to meet her at Leicester Square. V. impressed at the easy tube connection at Heathrow.
Friday morning I was indecisive about what . . . → Keep Going: EWR->LHR->PRG
By Cari, on May 23rd, 2007%
well not quite, but I do leave for Newark in ~6 hours.
I’m mostly packed except for a few crucial things, like the laptop. It’s going to be weird putting the backpack back on nearly one year after I returned.
Skype is set up. My screen name is travellingcari [shocker, shocker]. I have SkypeIn set up, but I don’t feel comfortable posting the number here. Feel free to e-mail me for it.
I’ve got a few books to read on the plane, but I’m planning to sleep. I apparently realized the logic of packing only two carry on books four years ago, however I . . . → Keep Going: and she’s off….
By Cari, on April 28th, 2007%
but it’s over.
Not a bad week at all, just crazy. We had the PGAV/Gettysburg Foundation presentation on Tuesday and I think it went well. All parties seemed happy and I think we, both as a class and as six teams targeting six segments, did a very good job. I loved the fact that we were able to take what we learned and apply it in real life situations, it’s part of why grad school seems so much more real than undergrad. I’d upload the PowerPoint but I don’t even have a copy of our final segments. The one for education . . . → Keep Going: One hell of a week…
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