It was a very long week, with lots of stress, annoyances, and long days of teaching, but it actually went by super quickly.
I've been a bad blogger lately. Mainly because instead of doing something productive with my free time I'd rather lay in bed watching episode after episode of friends. So thats pretty much what has been going on over here. Worth every minute though
Anyway, we got two weeks off of school for vacation time. We had to leave the country in order to renew our visas, so what better way to do it than by visiting five new countries for two weeks.
I'll get around to posting lots of pictures, but for now, here is where I went;
we started here.
budapest, hungary.
I didn't know what to expect in budapest, and I think thats why I fell in love with it so quickly. It will remain one of my favorite cities forever, and we only got to spend one day there. I hope to go back someday.
Then our bus stopped in Prague, Czech Republic. This was round two for me, and although I wasn't excited about spending five entire days there instead of being in other cities longer, I was happy to be back to something somewhat familiar. Also, finding a Paul was maybe what changed my attitude. Macarons every single day. Do you even know how complete that can make your life?
One day in Vienna. No, no, only about FIVE HOURS. It was completely unfair. Vienna was amazing, so so amazing. It was the type of city I belong in. Beautiful, clean, beautiful, streets lined with pastries and ice cream. I could live there for a while. Love love loved vienna.
Then we got a day in Dresden. And when I say day, once again I mean five hours. I really hoped to love Germany, and I did, but I won't lie, Dresden didn't really do it for me. It wasn't a big tourist spot. And actually as I write this maybe that is what I did like about it.. It was very quiet and quaint. Easy to just walk around and enjoy the scenery. I ended up spending the day at a carnival, so it was so much fun.
Berlin, Germany
Okay, such an awesome place. We had a tour guide for about two hours then free time for another two hours. We didn't get much in, but we saw all the highlights. So much history there.
Our last city to visit was Krakow, Poland. It was gorgeous! But of course, with all the unorganized-ness of this program, we ended up in Poland on a national holiday, where EVERYTHING was closed. Luckily we had a tour guide for about two hours, but then free time through the night until we left for prague again. It was weird. But I got to walk through some sketchy parts of town and just roam the city with our Ukrainian coordinator. I like Poland
And good thing I do, because ...we're going back! On this trip we didn't get the chance to visit aushewitz, we all really wanted to go. The russians continued to tell us that we couldn't handle it. . that we didn't understand what it really is.. So we didn't have the time or get the opportunity which was a bummer.
Luckily though, plans here are kind of the worst and somehow the amount of days we needed to be gone for our visas was calculated wrong and we need to leave again. [Or else get stuck in Ukrainian jail the rest of our lives..? just kidding] So the program is paying for a bus to krakow and for our hostel for four days. Free trip to Poland! Score. Happy thanksgiving to me.
And here's Vova my host brother. What we do on week nights.
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