Last City

We've made it to Munich, our last city on the trip. To commemorate the occasion, Kristin and Erica have composed a "travel day" song that we sang all day. It is quite creative and incorporates all genres as well as various things involved in travel day. To give you a little taste, I will describe what we do on a typical travel day -
1. Meet at a predetermined location for "travel day" (yes, Jeremy really calls it this, and he usually does a little dance and yells to get us excited, too). This part of the song is of the pop/rock genre.
2. We then check for our friends. "friends" are a group to which you are assigned on the first day (before you even know their names, which makes it quite interesting). If we each check for our friends, we can quickly determine who is missing. My friends are James, Marissa, Azra, and Amanda. We have never been without a friend until this morning's 7:00 meeting time. Way to ruin it, James. Checking for your friends is a country/western verse in the travel day song.
3. We head out for whatever form of public transportation is going to take us to the next city. Today was relatively simple as we only had to walk, then ride a bus, then 2 metros to the train station. On some days there are multiple short trains, buses, metros, and occasionally even boats before we get to the actual train that will take us where we are going.
4. At some point during the day we make a pack pile. Everyone removes their large pack and stacks it in a remote corner of the train station. 3-4 people watch the packs in shifts so we can get food, go [pay] to use the toilet, etc. The pack pile is a hip-hop bridge in the travel day song.

These may be repeated if necessary.

Hopefully, after all of these steps are done and re-done, we are in a new city. As you can see, travelling can be a bit boring, and we have to resort to things like making up songs to entertain ourselves. Jesse, the art professor, has also been so kind as to give us a test on sunday, so we studied for that as well!

On Monday I went to Lovosice to visit Radek Pospisil and his family. After a bit of a disastrous morning due to the inability to communicate in Czech, he picked me up at the train station in Kralupy, and we had a really fun day catching up. I really enjoyed getting to know his family as well as some of their friends.

Last night we went to see the Romeo and Julia ballet at the Vienna Opera House. we couldn't see a lot so we didn't stay too long, but the building was absolutely incredible. I wish we had been on a night to see an actual opera!

Tomorrow we are going to our last two art museums of the trip (thank goodness!). On sunday we are going to a concentration camp, and on Monday I believe we will go to the Holocaust memorial Museum. That just leaves our free day (to write our final paper for history) Tuesday, and then we'll be home wednesday. Time has flown!