Prague - The Overview

Wow. How could I do an over view of a whole week in a city like Prague! I'll tell you how. When you are FOUR months behind on your blogging. That's how. Desperate times call for Desperate measures.

To cut a long story short, PRAGUE IS AMAZING! YOU MUST SEE IT BEFORE YOU DIE! If you can ofcourse! It is just a little bit out of the way, and can be considered as rather risky to travel in. We had no trouble thankfully!

I felt like I could get lost in Prague. It has an amazing atmosphere that I haven't found anywhere else. There is a certain kind of golden light that hits the walls of the old city that just make you feel like you have entered a whole other time. The architecture of the buildings and the wall murals are breathtaking and add the ambience of the old city. I cannot express how beautiful I felt Prague was. I also found that Prague is refreshingly different from the other European cities I have been to. There was something about the city that made me feel like it is the best kept secret in Europe.

I cannot recommend Prague highly enough! It really is that good! And that food!!!  The scent of traditional Czech pastry like Tdrelnik (I think that's how it's spelt?) drifting through the alley ways will lure you into the bakery's and having you pulling your wallets out. Oh boy! Did they look and smell good!

Well, I have said enough, it is now time for photos! They are a pitiful representation of the city, but will have to do!

Czech this out! - The First Evening!

Kylee and I arrived in Prague safe and sound! We met a lovely girl in the shuttle on the way to our hostel. She was nice.

Kylee and I ate sushi at this really nice and very cheap place near our hostel. It became a major feature of our time in prague! It was so good! MMM.... green rolls.

We also got lost in the ghetto. That was less ideal. But hey, adventure right?

Czech This Out! - Getting there!

Our adventure in the Czech Republic began long before we even got there.

I was lucky enough to travel with Kylee (another one of the student missionaries) and our lovely Principle Holgar and his incredible wife Elsabeth. Holgar and Elsabeth are the best! We all travelled together as far as Hamburg. Holgar and Elsabeth have a daughter who lives in Singapore, and were off to the tropical weather to spend Easter with their daughter and her family. Kylee and I flew out of Hamburg early the next morning. We left the school and drove about 3 and a half hours to the airport.

The delicious assortment of road trip snacks that Elsabeth ever so kindly organised for us. 

It was ALL GLUTEN FREE!!! She is the most considerate and loving woman! We are so blessed to work with her!

The toasty hot chocolate we had ready for us!

Kylee and I, the Back seat Bandits! Both with our matching hot chocolates!

This is a lollie pizza we found in Hamburg Airport after we separated from Holgar and Elsabeth. It was the same size as a regular pizza!

We searched high and low for Caitlin or Kylee, but sadly, all we found was Dirk and Lothar.

Evidently, we need more common names!

I will allow the next video explain this one!

This lovely woman could see that Kylee and I were dying with curiosity about what the poor sod in the poncho was doing. She was kind enough to explain it all for us! To 'free him' as she mentions near the end of the video, he must be kissed by a young woman! Until he is 'freed' he has to do which ever task his friends and family set for him! In his case, pick up beer bottle caps and sand. Luckily for this guy, a girl passing by gave him a kiss on the cheek and he was able to change out of the embarrassing clothes and his friends helped him clean up! I for one and a little bummed we don't have this tradition in Australia!

This is Kylee catching a little bit of shut eye at about 3 am. Kylee and I had arranged for accommodation for the night we were to be in Hamburg, however, the plans fell through, and we spent the night at the airport. We waited about 19 hours starting from when we arrived at the airport and ending when we boarded the plane. 

Luckily for us, we weren't the only ones staying the night at the airport. We befriended three hilarious young British soldiers. They live and work in Germany with the British Army, and had missed their plane. They were good company! We played cards with them (Phase 10!) until 3 am. They were lovely gents, however, they were incredibly hard to understand. Their accents were so heavy that Kylee and I had some serious difficulty understanding some of what they said. It all just added to the ridiculous humour of it all. George, Alistair and Ashley made our night a little less rough! 

All set and ready to board out little plane to Prague! I had had literally about 5 minutes sleep at this point. Kylee had about 2 hours. We were fortunate enough to be able to buy some coffee at a little cafe in the airport. It lifted our spirits a lot! So exciting knowing we were heading to Prague!

Our puny little GermanWings plane! It did the job! You can see Kylee is a little bit excited to get there!

Like I said, excited hehe

Want to know what happened after we arrived!? 

Sorry. You will have to wait until the next blog post. 

Galla

It has been way too long since I last blogged! And I apologize! I have been pretty busy these days! Well, Pretty busy is an understatement!

This is going to be a short post, because there are going to be some hefty posts coming in the VERY short future! So keep your eyes peeled!

Galla weekend was a big weekend for me! I worked the weekend shift, which can get pretty cray... and it most certainly did! It was a really great weekend though! Lots of fun was had! Also, there were some pretty interesting decisions made during my 2 hours off on sabbath afternoon! Yep, I hacked my hair off.

Well, actually. Kylee hacked my hair off. With travel sized sewing scissors. A side note - she wasn't wearing her glasses either! So it was risky business!

The long locks BEFORE!

See what I mean about travel sized? Kylee spent about 10 minutes trying to hack through my ponytail! They were small and blunt little blades!

The final product! (And my sink!)

And again! The final product! A little bit styled and done up for Galla! Galla was that night!

Finally! What Galla is all about! The 3G students! These are the graduating students for this year!

Last but not least, I have an extra (rather unflattering) photo to share that tell the tail of two friends, put in a very awkward public scenario!

Meet Travis. Travis is a cool guy. I work with Travis. Travis is from the US and is heaps fun to work with. This is not one of the unflattering photos I mentioned above.

This one is.

Travis, Amec, Melissa and I were nominated for Best Student Missionary of the Year. It was an honour to be nominated, and a really nice compliment. Amec took the prize - and I must say, He is definitely deserving of it! Such a nice guy! SO, Congrats to Amec! 

After the nominations were made, and Amec awarded, the 3G's invited the four of us up to play a lovely little game of pop the balloon in between your bodies. We were told we had to pop a balloon between these places - our tummies (awkward!), our hips (one for each hip), our bottoms (as poorly demonstrated above) and the grand finale! - By sitting on Travis's lap. Very awkward.

They teamed Amec with Melissa and Travis and me.

Travis and I definitely lost.

I think our bottoms were a little bit softer than the others, because we struggled to pop the balloon between out bottoms. I swear Amec and Melissa have buns of steel.

So Travis and I struggled - in front of the entire school and staff.

It was a really fun game, but rather awkward!

Hats off to Melissa and Amec for absolutely Whipping us!!!

So as you can see, Gala weekend was a little bit on the wild side! But it has definitely been one of the most rememberable weekends!