Zut

I am just feeling kind of blah for the last couple days since I got back Prague. I was exhausted after traveling and didn't get a second to relax really, but then I did this weekend. However, now I just feel kind of randomly moody for no reason. Going from ecstatic to grumpy really fast, which is kind of weird for me. I'm usually just about always in the same mood. Oh well I'll get over this. I am still feeling fairly exhausted, but I wake up really early every morning and can't get back to sleep. I'm not really sure what it's all about. I'm sure it's just the changing of the seasons and the dropping temps and all that. When it gets dark so early, I get more and more tired. I don't really want to go out at all, which is bad because I am only in France for 28 more days. Crazy right? I'm not really making the most of my time here by being a bum I'm sure, but I can't force myself to go out because then I am just more miserable. So I have to do exactly what I feel up to doing otherwise I'm just not happy. Whatever to all those people who think I'm being lame. This is just me....This is a pretty whiny entry but that's just how I am feeling. I got my presentation for sociolinguistics either shortened or deleted all together because I am American and went up and talked to her in my worst french ever so she would take pity... Horrible I know but I can't speak in front of French people because they are SO critical. That presentation would have been so much more difficult for me than all the other students in the class since I was the only American in it. Oh well. I am pretty much just trying to stay afloat in classes now because they are impossible to follow. There's NO structure. It's very confusing. Oh well. Gotta keep trucking. Only 3 more weeks of classes and then finals and then traveling, which we also have not finalized at all. Goodness me that's not good at all. Maybe I'll work on that now.

Prague and Back again

So I went to Prague this weekend and it was really really great. The city is just beautiful. It's not really all that big and there's just something kind of charming about it. Jake being there made it a little nicer as well. Getting there though...CDG airport...I HATE that place. It's the worst airport I have been to. Granted, I haven't been to a lot, but seriously. I got so lost. I did the whole train thing fine and then the using the metro to get to the airport just fine. Then I couldn't find the check-in. And then I tried to follow the signs and ended up trying to go through security with my itinerary and not a boarding pass. I was so frustrated and tired of carrying my bags around and I was dehydrated and starving. But eventually I figured it out, though check-in wasn't open yet because I was there too early. But I got there. Czech airlines was quite nice too, they gave us food and drinks on an hour and 20 minute flight. Not bad. I get there, Jake is there, and we go back and I crash. The next day we walk around and just kinda check out all the sites Prague has to offer which are all in Czech so no I don't remember their names and even if I did I couldn't spell them. But it was nice. Saw James Bond at night because they only subtitle movies not dub them like the French. Jake's homestay is real nice and I got food and stuff which was much more than I expected. I also had to get used to hearing Czech all the time and not having ANY idea what was going on. Jake's czech was actually really impressive to me. He's not doing too bad! The next day we go to the opera (Don Giovanni) which was subtitled. My first opera! It was pretty fun actually. I wasn't sure I would like it, but it was fun. Then we made chicken pot pie for dinner! Yum! The next day we went to the zoo, which was of course amazing and we saw some amazing spider monkeys and a lemur just hanging out. Then we made our way to a Kladno hockey game (we won!) and had a beer at the pub waiting for the bus. On Monday, we walked around some more, got me some gulash and then we went to the Slayer concert, which was really fun, but then my body gave out from standing and walking so much, so we left early. And then I left at 7:15 in the morning.
It was a real bummer having to leave. I really did not want to at all and I don't feel the same being back here. It's home and all but I just enjoyed my time there so much. Prague has so many parks and it's really quite peaceful that you don't feel like you're in a city. Yet you have all the options of a city. Here, it's always crowded, but there it just didn't feel like that. I enjoyed my time with Jake, and it's always hard to leave him, but we'll be back together in a month. No biggie. The Czech people, they aren't "friendly" like Americans with all the chatter and all that, but they aren't unfriendly though. I was only there for 4 days granted. But they do make a mean fried cheese sandwich! It's a funny city too with the mixture of older buildings with communist era building with modern structures that are ugly. The language is a trip though. Not used to not being able to read a darn thing, not even guess. Completely different. But it sounds pretty cool. I thought their trams were funny looking because we have like space-age trams here but Jake was pretty offended by my laughing at them...haha.
It was a really great trip over all and it was so nice to get out of Montpellier and do something with myself again. I've kinda been atrophying these past couple of weeks. Coming home, I got lost coming out of the Montpellier train station...how bad is that? I did alright though traveling for the first time by myself. Especially since it was in a different country. I think I might be getting the hang of this whole multi-national thing. Maybe. Well back to school, back to school...

Break and Back to School

So I haven't really done anything as of late. We had a few days off from school and we didn't go anywhere and we didn't do anything so I sat in bed and watched tv on the internet for 5 days straight pretty much, went to school on Thursday and then sat in bed again for 2 days. I have gotten up and taken a walk around town everyday because I get ansy and need to get out, but mostly I just sit around. Not a whole lot to do ya know? Unless you want to go out to the bar and drink, but that's expensive and gets old after awhile. I also have not been feeling the best for the past week, which also makes me not want to do anything. It rained for about 6 days straight, so my sinuses decided to go crazy. But oh well. I feel alright today so far, but the day just started. I haven't been doing a lot of schoolwork, but I did finish a book in French, which made me really happy. I have started another one on top of that which is just for fun. My reading ability is doing pretty well. So is my comprehension I guess. My speaking is atrocious. Oh well. Still have 6 weeks right? Jake and I finalized our after the program travel up through the 25, Brussels then Amsterdam. After that is still up in the air. The places I would really like to go to is Berlin, London, and Ireland, but we'll see what we get to. I am going to Spain on Tuesday (we have a holiday for Armistice Day) to visit the Salvador Dali museum and then going to Prague on Thursday, and the Paris again Nov 28-30th, so hopefully I am feeling better by then. And back to school for real on Monday, though supposedly the tram workers are on strike on Monday, so maybe I won't be going to class. We'll see. Alright, well that's about it for now. I am enjoying having the internet a lot, but it's really enabling me to be a homebody. But my friends are all doing about the same thing. We are a lazy bunch of people no? It's all good though. Our coffee maker broke, which was hard at first but then I decided to lay off the caffeine for a little while, so now it's ok. I also learned that our utility bills come out of the security deposit that we paid in the beginning of the semester, so woo...one weight off my mind. And I got my scholarship from the Liberal Arts college, so I have a little leeway. I am trying to save a little money for when I go back so that I will have some money to survive on until I can find a job. I figure I need enough for a couple of months because I should be able to find a job in that time right? Right. I also got the package from my parents with my hoodie and gum, and my hoodie smells like home. Which is different than how I remember it being, though I still identified it as home. Weird right? And gum is like 4 euros a pack here, and I missed gum, so they sent me some. NICE! Alright well that really is all for now!