Halloween week + Project Review

After going out of town for three weekends in a row it was nice to finally spend a weekend in Prague. The due date for our first project was coming up in a week so it was also good to finally have some time to focus on school work. We have finally been in Prague long enough to find some really good restaurants around the pension and around school that we go to a lot. Around the pension we found a great place called Café Sudicka that has a really good vegetable tortilla that I have had many times and thick garlic soup with cheese that comes with baguettes. There is also a Chinese place called Fenix that has pretty good chinese food with large portions for pretty cheap prices. Around school I have been going to a lunch place called Paneria a lot where I can get a sandwich and iced coffee for about $4. The typical Czech food is heavy on meat and potatoes so it was nice to find good places with a different menu.

The weather here is not always the best, usually rainy in the morning and then overcast for most of the day, so last week everyone was happy when we had three days where it was sunny all day. I finally was able to go on some runs, which I have been missing a lot lately since it is usually rainy in the morning and by the time I get out of class and back to the pension it is already getting dark.

Last weekend was also Halloween, which we later found out that people in Prague do not celebrate. We all got dressed up, I was a leprechaun and John borrowed some clothes from me and my roommate Danielle and dressed up as a girl. My friend Julie was a hot dog, some of the other girls were party animals, and one of the guys was a ninja. We had the receptionist at the pension take a picture of the group before we left and then we all headed to the go-go dancer club where we again had some mojitos. We saw some other groups of Americans also dressed up for the holiday in the metro but for the most part people just looked confused when they saw us. That night we also headed to a really packed bar called Chapeau Rogue right near Old Town Square.

The rest of the weekend was spent working on projects and catching up on sleep. We had the review for our second project all day on Tuesday and Wednesday. My review went pretty well; my project was a wellness center on Narodni Street, one of the busiest streets in Prague. I had plans, diagrams and a model of the façade that fit in with the neighboring buildings while marking its place on the site. It was nice to be done with the project and look forward to the trip to Budapest on Thursday.