Strange day

Strange day today, don`t know if it is because of the distance from Marit and Norway, all the beer or something else. Hopefully it will get better. Ciao

Some pictures from my partying the last days, I am really tired now, so I am looking forward to NOT go out :) Have to wake up at 7 AM tomorrow, just so I can move all my stuff before someone else moves in here. Will probably wait in queue for a long time also. If it is really impossible to live at Strahov dormitory block 8 I just have to find some people that also want to move into a better place. Will start the orientation-week on wednesday, and hopefully start doing something usefull (except drinking beer) in 2 weeks. Ahoj

Sparta Praha - Ajax, "you fucking jew" and farewell boat

Wednesday - Sparta Praha - Ajax
Went to see a champions league-match today. Thought it would be hard to get tickets, but it was quite easy to get. Only 450 CZH (110 NOK) for one ticket also. Not the best ticket - but still worth the money. When we arrived outside the stadium there where police-cars standing everywhere. We even saw a couple of policemen on horse and an armed police-car.

Went into a nearby streat and someone obviously had opened a bar/shop from their window and sold beer - nice. As we walked towards the stadium someone shouted "you fucking jew" to me. Never heard that before - and I do not know what he thought was so jewish about me.... Inside the arena we sat beside a fat,shouting and angry man that did not like foreigners. Still we managed to enjoy the game, along with 15 000 other.

Actually bought hot dog and bread, and then I do not mean hot dog IN bread, but hot dog AND normal bread (chleb), good food :) After leaving we saw even more policemen, but I think both the teams where happy with 1 goal each, so there where no fighting.

Thursday - Farewell-party
Last day of our language course had to be celebrated, so we went on a boat-trip (typical tourist-thing to do, but still nice), ate food and drank beer. Afterwards we walked a long way up a hill and found a "secret" beer-garden. Very good view of the town from this place, but it was dark so I have no good pictures of it. Afterwards we went to Roxy, I must say I like this place more and more. Very special rooms,furniture,people,dogs,paintings and things to sit on. Will try to get som more pictures from this place - will go there more. And ofcourse they have the famous Absinth here, even though I haven`t tried it yet (have to save something for the rest of the year). Finally we went for a little dancing at Nebe .......... HAHA. Tried to search for a webpage for the homepage of Nebe, But found something else!. Try to search for this phrase on google: "+nebe +prague", and then click on the 9th link and so on and so forth. Not exactly what I searched for... now I am not sure if I want to sit in the chairs and sofa EVER again... Perhaps a similar search for Dirty Nelly, Storm, Korpen and Oscars (pubs in Levanger) will show some similar movies/pictures ?

Still enjoys Prague!

Todays czech word: arasid - peanut
Todays meal word: great pizza with alot of cheese

1. Ordered pizza in the middle of the night (Pizzagohome!) - only 300 CZK - quite cheap, but too small.
2. You could buy beer from a window outside the stadium
3. A view from our seating
4. Almost the same size of the stadium as Lerkendal in Trondheim
5. Capacity of 25 000 people, only 15 000 on the match Sparta Praha - Ajax
6. The food from our farewellparty
7. Some local-furniture :)
8. Great view from the boat
9. Nice scenery
10.And finally how a finish girl spell my name

Will be back writing some more later, but now out to get some beer and dinner!

At the embassy

Did go for a stroll to the embassy today, to register for 17th of May and other funny stuff they arrange. Also asked if I had to register at the police - they sayd yes/no - but it would probably be a good idea, it will only take alot of time. Will try to find a place with Olympiakos - Rosenborg (Champions League) tonight, and I think I have a ticket to tomorrows match between Sparta Praha and Ajax. Will be fun.

Not mutch more to tell about today, really.

Todays meal: Chinese-chicken-food
Todays czech word: hlava - head

Free USB-key and bar/restaurant description in the bank :)

Yet another blue-monday and language-course. After the lesson we went to eat some terrible dinner at the students Menza (canteen). Also took the bus to Strahov dormitories to try to find out if it was possible to stay there from the 18th instead of 19th september. Ofcourse this was not ok - so I will be homeless from 18-19th september :). I haven`t got any good pictures from the Strahov-dormitory yet, but will be sure to let you view this "thing" later. The buildings look like they are abandoned after the plague, but we have a stadium,swimming pool, tennis-court,football-court and alot of shops/pubs/restaurants nearby - so I think I will manage to survive.

Afterwards I tried to go to the embassy, but only open from 9-15.30 - so will go there tomorrow. Had heard a rumor that if you appliede for a student account (for free) - then you also got a free USB-key. So for at least 1 hour I talked to a friendly fellow at CSOB-bank in Dejvicka. He was new in the job, and it seemed that he already had got tired of doing all the paperwork. He did not know all the papers/forms etc yet - but he could understand and speak english, had a sence of humor and even recommended a few pubs/discos. So i absolutely recommend CSBO-bank for any student. At the end he did not have any of the USB-keys left, but it did not do anything (yes it did... thats the reason I signed up for the account :)). He forgot to give me some papers, so have to go back tomorrow again, perhaps he can try to find one for me then.

It also started raining alot today - so now I am more used to the weather (skikkelig trøndervær). Still hope for a couple of sunny-days though. Will try to be good and study (withouth beer) this night. I am not looking forward to stay in queue for everything in one week...

Todays meal: Some fried seafood?
Todays czech word: penize - money

1. The view from my current room at Masarykova dorm
2. Highly education-game from a non-stop pub in prague at around 7 o`clock in the morning
3. This was the first we saw in Karlovy Vary today
4. Very easy to find the different parts of the city
5. We climbed up a hill and up a tree and could see this
6. Lokal people trying to make money on romantic tourists

Long time since an update now. Could have written alot about the day that did not exist, but can summarize it as follows: a lot of beer, playing "find 5 differences on the pictures of a naked lady" with a local czech guy, try to speak "tongue-gymnastics" - that is a sentence that is hard to say fast, several times after eachother (for instance: Ibsens ripsbærbusker og andre buskvekster), ordered 4 karsk in different places (Norwegian "speciality": homemade "vodka" + coffee) - think everyone liked it.... not,went out from the pub at around 9 in the morning and saw school-children walking around to their first day at school and I seem to remember that someone was not very sober...

Today we went to Karlovy Vary. Without being an architect I will think that this is a heaven for those guys/ladys. I recommend everyone that stays in Prague to go to Karlovy Vary, around 2 hours with bus from Prague. We went to the top of a mountain, great view. The restaurant at the top of the hill was good, but we had to wait for too long, so if you plan a trip - do not eat there, but take a walk down the mountain and find another restaurant in town.

Ahoj for now.

08.09.2005

I hereby declare that this day does not exist, and the thing I "supposedly" did yesterday didn`t happen either. Will talk again when a real day arrivest. Goodnight.

1. View from the highest mountain in Czech Republic
2. A strange-looking dog at a bar
3. How a german spell my name
4. Not all the toilets are this nice-looking

Did not listen to myself yesterday. We found a very good pub/place (Wakata Dj-lounge) where we stayed until late. I heard rumors today that some people where drunk when we where there, but I can not remember who. Besides playing table-soccer,drinking pivos, drinking semtex+vodka (if you buy two drinks for 100 korunas you get a lottery ticket and can win a condom,fan,lavalightstick,a puzzle,a tatoo and other things....),looking at dogs,talking to funny people and having fun, we also listened to the DJ playing great music. Will absolutely recommend to visit the place if you are in Prague.

Did also find an excellent guide to find the good places in Prague. MR. Gordonsky`s Praha City Spy Map, also available for other large cities at the homepage right here. So will try to go to see some of the other places also described in this booklet.

I still like Prague very mutch, so I am looking forward to stay here for a year. Have already booked tickets home for christmas (17.dec-3.jan) - and will perhaps take a trip back to Norway in oct/nov, we will see.

Todays Czech word: letadlo - airplane
Todays meal: Chicken-breast with fried tomatoes and baked potatoes

Highest mountain and Aquapark

Todays mission was to take a bus to the highest mountain in this country. Since I`m from Norway I have seen one or two mountains before, so my expectations for the trip was not very high. We did ofcourse get the oldest,slowest bus in Prague - so the trip that where supposed to take 1 hour took nearer 3. When we first saw the mountain we thought - finally we are there. The busdriver did just continue to drive on the same road - up the mountain. And when we started to go downwards at the other end of the mountain we new something was wrong, so we had to turn the bus and go back to find the ski-wagon-thingy to bring us up to the top of the mountain. We had a good view from the top, and then we went down again. Not the most exiting thing I have ever been to.

Then it was time for some fun. We drove to a city which only had 1 large building (that where painted pink,yellow,blue and red and the most ugly thing I have ever seen) surrounded by alot of abandoned industrial buildings. A shoppingmall,restaurants and Aquapark (homepage with a map) in the same building. A little small, but it was ok. Had sume fun slides,jauzzi, 3 bars,sauna and massage. But do not eat your dinner at the shopping mall. It seemed like it had already been eaten 3 times already, and it did exactly get me in better shape.

A couple of hours with bus, and then we where back home again. Will hopefully relax and not stay out till late tonight. Then there is a tiny opportunity for me to study some Czech tomorrow.

Todays Czech word: Zakusek - dessert
Todays meal: Something that has already been eaten 3 times