The new slogan for the Czech Republic ^. This weekend my family was here in Prague. We ate a lot and saw a lot. It is now full blown tourist season here. The weather was mostly wonderful with one little bout of rain, but there were plenty of museums to keep us busy. It was nice to have them here for a while…but I’m ready to have my own time here after the program ends. I’m ready to go home, but I’m trying not to push it because I know once I’m home I will wish I was back in Prague. Also, I have nothing set at home. I don’t have a job for the summer (I’m open to suggestions), I don’t have an internship (again, any connections would be wonderful), and I don’t have a place to live in August for the upcoming school year. These things have all been on my mind here, but I’ve been pushing them aside to think about what’s in front of me. Literally..like watching out for dog poop. I have yet to step in any, so I think I’m doing a good job. I just know that as soon as I get home, all of these things, these “real life” problems, are going to catch up with me. Compound that with being back in the wonderful suburbia of Oakland, and it makes for one fantastically fun summer. It will be nice to relax a little, especially in a house where I have a room of my own. I have already started compiling my summer goals list and hope that I have enough time to accomplish everything I added to it.
This weekend I’m meeting up with Kelly in Barcelona. I know that I will have a great time and this is probably the trip I’ve been most looking forward to, but it’s also my last weekend here. And to know that everyone will be here and I will not, is sad. It’s the last hurrah of the CET family and I’m sad I won’t be here for it. I’m sure we’ll still have fun next week, its just hard to know somethings going on and you’re missing it. Also I won’t be around this weekend to do work, and god knows I have more than I expected. I’m going to have a very productive Tuesday and Wednesday this week and finish up everything before I leave Thursday evening for Barcelona. It’s sad to think I won’t be around these people that I’ve shared the last 4 months with, but I know that when I go back to the U.S. I will have more friends to visit and more parts of the U.S. to see.
Traveling around the Czech republic and eastern Europe has made me want to see more of the U.S. The country is huge and I’m realizing how much of it I haven’t discovered. How much the culture varies within our own country, within the borders. I never had much desire to go to Montana or Nebraska or Kansas, but now I do. Not only because of the people I’ve met but because they are American’s too and their lives seem so different then what I know it to be. Listening to the ways people grew up and the ways other people live is interesting and makes me want to see that part of the country. I would like to say that I have been to and spent time in all 50 states. Not just the cities, but the country rural areas as well.
So in the next 10 years I would like to say I have visited every part of the U.S. New goal.
