nuuuuvous

my history of art and architecture teacher is so cute, we are all obsessed with doing impressions of her. shes czech but speaks in a sort of british accent. i am so nuuuvous can you undeustand please? because i have been talking since morning.
but the point is that i am getting so nervous, and sort of stressed out. there are only two weeks left in the program and i keep having these anxiety dreams where i am rushing to the airport or its the next day and i have forgotten to go to the airport all togeather but i dont really care because i dont want to leave or miss anything!
i wish i had planned my trip differnetly so that i could stay at least one extra day, but i really dont have the time. i dont even want to start about my fears of getting to venice with my inconvinient airport and all my luggage. whose up for some more learning expiriences???
last night i went to see faust at the estates theater, the theater where mozart premeired don giovani. it was so good, ive been falling asleep at operas and wishing that i could go to ballets.
i wish i could show u pictures of the snow in prague. its just as beautiful as u could imagine. apparently im very lucky because it doesnt usually snow like this until januarý or february.
this thursday im going to an unknown location for a class called cinema dance. we go make short film and then come back on sunday. should be pretty cool except that i just wanna stay in prague for once. i dont think ive been here for a weekend in over a month.
there is no doubt in my mind that prague was the perfect place for me to come, im gonna miss czech and trying to speak it, i can almost understand every 10th word, and im really good at exlaining to people that i dont speak czech.
im already getting nastalgic.

Technical difficulty

My computer charger broke and it's too expensive to buy a new one here. So that means it's back to the old itouch. And that means that my spelling and punctuation will be even worse! So no more pictures or lengthy entries unless I'm at the school computer lab.
Just got back from Vienna. It was really pretty, about the same size as Prague. Easy metro system, Christmas markets, coffee shops (the American bar by Adolf loos), hottie architecture students. One night a group of us ordered the 5 liter tank of beer and I dinner shmorgesborg for 6 served on a sword. It was epic people in the bar were staring and taking pictures. Too bad Austria is so expensive.

Berlin.

Well the weekends just keep getting more an more exciting, but simultaneously i'm longing for just one more quite weekend in Prague to do Pragey things, which i fear i may never have the chance to do.
Last Thursday I went to a Ratatat concert at this place called the Meetfactory. I mostly really just wanted to go there because it's in this old warehouse which was taken over by artists, namely david cerney who is famous here. he's the one who did the giant broze babies climbing up the tv tower. i don't really get it, or particularly like it, but its big and important. i thought the venue could've been more interesting the the band was AMAZING!!!!
so thennnn then next morning at 7:30 i got on a bus with maybe 30 of my classmates to go to Berlin. Berlin was cool, but intimidating. it's the most american seeming city i've been to so far. the reason being because its so big and spread out and also most of the buildings are from the 50's or newer. it was exhausting trying to find our way around but when we did get to a bar or anything it was worth it. The graffiti tour we went on was my favorite part. that and the toilet seat at this bar called zimmer..something which was see-threw with dried roses in it. adorable.
Next weekend I'm going to Vienna, again with the school. I'm excited to go to a smaller city (than Berlin) and also about the CHRISTMAS MARKETS and the MULLED WINE and the ARCHITECTURE SCHOOL which Andrei (my old professor) works at alongside Zaha Hadid and Greg Lynn. He told me he won't be around this weekend but I still really wanna stalk around his haunting grounds. I hope I can find them.

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Salzburg and life

damnit if my internet is so unreliable. were it not for this maybe i would blog more. or maybe i'm just making more excuses.
I'm listening to passion pit alone in my room with ipod headphones in. i'm soooooo meytal right now ; )
I just ate most of a milka: alpine milk chocolate and yogurt bar. this is great...and a bit sickening.

i got back from salzburg on sunday. we were there for two nights, and get this, we stayed at the SAME hostel for BOTH nights! it was lovely. not to mention the awesome ausie woman (named francie) in our room, who is my new guru; and the amazing views; and the hilarious sound of music tour. and the weather! it was sunny and practically 70 the whole time.
now im back in prague contemplating the rest of my time here. I've gotten busy, this weekend im going to berlin, next to vienna, next to some unknown location for a cinema class. then a weekend in prague, and then off to my after-travels (venice, lille, paris, and new york).this week in between classes im volunteering like usual and also helping some friends with their student films. i'm a busy (and pretending to be important) woman!
I'm excited to come home though, but i've started to get concerned that maybe counter culture shock could be a reality, but then again. why can't everything be perfect? i certainly don't see why not, it seems as though i've got about a 50 50 chance. they's ain't bad odds.

maybe if i don't get sleepy i'll try to battle the internet to upload some pictures of salzburg. you'll like those : )

the rest of that chocolate bar is dangerously close to my peripheral vision...

woops

so i know i've been absolutley wretched about blogging. the problem is that the more time i spend here, the more regular life seems and the less inspired i am to muse/brag about it. so a couple interesting things have happened: a haloween party last thursday in which i dressed up as coco chanel. it was a big hit and i felt pretty good about it. the shiney red leggings unfortuntley didn't make it to this halloween celebration, who knows how things wouldn've turned out.
and then a couple groups of students asked me to do art direction in there student films which are shooting in about a week. they're really short and low budget and i can't be there all shooting days so i don't know how much help i'll actually get to be but i'm still pretty excited about it. "everything is happening for me here" jk
i got to accompany them to this giant wardrobe and prop house which was really amazing.
so tomorrow i'm going to salzburg for the weekend with my friend's colleen and andy and we're going on the sound of music tour, pretty pumped about that. more on that to come.

Nederland

Yesterday I returned from Amsterdam. My friends Kate and Katie and I went to Holland for our fall break (which was just thursday and friday). I kind of broke the trend with my name, it was funny introducing ourselves to strangers in the hostel, "this is kate, katie, and aurelia..." Holland was unexpectedly beautiful especially Utrecht. We flew from Prague to Einhoven because it was cheaper than flying to Amsterdam, but this way we got to have lunch with a friend of katie's. His name was Arian and he made us a delicious french onion soup and some sort of turkish pizza wrap thing, and i'm just now realizing how hungry i am. Then he went with us to Utrecht and helped us find our hostel (thank god). Utrecht is like being in a postcard, it's like wee britian from arrested development, it's the cutest place imaginable. and EVERYONE was soooo nice, but this may have been amplified by the fact that pragers are so unfriendly. I got a new dress and a belt and a fried dough ball and i drooled over all the amazing boots, meanwhile my new boots are giving me a bruise on the back of my heal.. but i'm not gonna think about that too much. grump.
the next day we took the train 20 minutes to amsterdam. amsterdam is amazing because everything is designed, nothing is ugly or neglected, even the metro stations have cool neon lights on the escalators. the problem with amsterdam was that all the hostels were booked up leaving us sleeping in a different hostel every night, which is fine cause we're scrappy like that, but it really took a lot out of us and we didn't end up doing much but walking around the city and eating at restaurants. nevertheless amsterdam is a beautiful city, the little buildings on the canal amaze me, they look like site models that were sometimes poorly cut. but in the most adorable way. we had classic "awkward girl" time trying to get back to einhoven from amsterdam on monday morning, we just barely caught our flight. we were the last people to board and they almost didn't want to let us threw the gate.
but i'm definatley planning to move to holland and living in barbie's dream world where everyone is nice and rides their classic bikes around and sips lattes and wears glasses and classy boots. ahhh