Nur Zwei Tage

Maahh!  I apologize for not having posted in such a long time but the end of my school session has been quite crazy lately.  Last time I ended with my post about Vienna.  The rest of last week went pretty smoothly with not a lot of big things going on.  Friday though, I left with two other girls to see Prague in the Czech Republic.  Prague is huge.  I thought Vienna was big.  Wow, hello Prague.  The thing about Prague is, they don't speak German....the language is Czech.  And the thing about Czech is, it is in no way similar to either German or English. Heh heh.  I learned the best phrase you would ever need, and phonetically it goes like this:  MLOO-vee-teh AHN-gleet-skee? It means, "Do you speak  English?"  When they said "no", I would ask if they spoke German, and over half of the time that's how the conversation would end up...in German. That or the opposite would happen; they would be better at English than German but I would try to talk to them in German on accident.
    As far as the city is concerned, it's very pretty, has a lot of history, a lot of beautiful buildings, a lot of graffiti, dirty air that always smells like smoke or alcohol, and tourist attractions that are never free.  Overall, Prague was not my favorite, but then again, I had Salzburg to compare it to, and what can compare to Salzburg??  We also had some issues with our hostel and with transportation.  See, we'd planned on staying in Prague from Friday til Monday, and catching our train on Monday at 13:00.  Then, Surprise!!!  The transportation workers want to strike on Monday!  Great.....  We went to the train station and two of the workers said, "yes...it is definitely happening" then the third said, "Nah, we don't know yet for sure.  Come back tonight or tomorrow morning and check."  Ok.  I can handle that.
    We then headed out to do the things we'd planned for that day and the last on the list was a Jazz Boat. So cool!  They take you on a boat on the river at night and you get a live jazz performance and dinner.  Then you get to see the sunset and then the night all lit up at night.  It was my favorite part of Prague.   After the Jazz Boat we went back to the train station, and Surprise again!  The strike was off. : )     No striking for you!  I was overjoyed because that meant that I wouldn't miss out on another day in Salzburg (which I was missing quite a bit) and the day with my Host family.  But please don't get too excited, we still had issues riding back. Oh, and did I forget to mention that on the way to Prague, the trains were so full that we did not get seats?  We either stood in hallways or sat near the bathrooms.  Thankfully on our way back that only happened once.  Instead, our connecting train to Munich was late, so we missed the Munich to Salzburg train.  That put us about 2 hours behind.  Finally we got back to Salzburg and I apologize to anyone who really loves Prague, but I never intend to go back.
      So now, my last week!  I had two tests on Wednesday and now I'm finished with classes.  Yesterday evening was the farewell party with the Geistberger's and I might have cried...quite a bit.  The funny part was that when I first started crying, I asked for a moment and went up to my room.  When I came back down, they told me that Lisa was so sad for me, that she wanted to coddle me and make me feel better.  Ha ha.  Little sweetheart.  Now it is Thursday.  I have a Kindergarten party for Laura, then the students have a concert and then there is a Farewell party at the school later.  Then tomorrow is farewell day.  I have begun to pack my suitcase and it doesn't feel real.  I can hardly believe that already, ich habe nur zwei mehr Tage (I have only two more days).

I probably won't be able to post at all until I am back in the states because I will be travelling some from Saturday til Thursday....so...until then!!!!

Victoria  (Or as Lisa says, Victoree...the "a" hasn't happened yet, but it is a step up from  "Vih tohr")

Also, here are some pictures.  Sorry for the lack of labels.