Saturday, 19 July 2008

i heard he killed 18 czechoslovakians!

hello friends and family.

it's saturday july 19 and i'm in prague, czech republic. it's pretty shit really. i want to send you pictures but this computer is 8 seconds away from having a heart attack and my hair has grown long and thin and i look like a mongoloid so i won't.

let me see, i haven't written since i was in germany, and dan's doing a pretty comprehensive blog over there because he loves writing, so i'll just do the main high and low points. first, we went to a concentration camp. it was pretty sparse and there's not much to see there because the russians hulk smashed it all in the cold war and then the germans rebuilt it so we would give them 10 euros. it's pretty grim. it was haunting because it's something you dedicate entire semesters to studying, but it's something i'm very willing not to do again. there was the typical bus in, walk around a bit, put a stone on a grave in honour of the deaths, watch a movie and get bussed out again before it all gets too real/far away from mcdonalds for the fat australian and british tourists. and they are fat, and obnoxious. americans are, on the other hand, cultured, slim and can speak other languages. we r lame.

then because we happily conform to our fat australian stereotype, we followed a series of misleading german signs that claimed to be taking us to mcdonalds. for about an hour. seriously. we couldn't find it!! it kept saying, oh just take this strasse, and now that strasse, and behind that big german flag and it's under that rock. but we couldn't find it so we went back to the stations looking like this ( ) in our bellies and like this :( on our faces. then of course it was in the station. we suck. so we ate mcKshickens which apparently suck in germany and fries with mayo and got attacked by automatic doors on the way out. i can't remember anything after that except i know i had half a beer then through up for about an hour, which was AMAZING. do you know how good it feels after you throw up??? i didn't. i'm definitely going to do that more often.

there were some drinking games with some cool canadians, steph, shannon and sam, it's a rule in canada yes, garth and andrew the americans (andrew was reading how to make friends and influence people the hostellers version, which is how he knew it is still cool to put gel in your hair and spike it up neatly every morning with a comb and get in peoples personal spaces. more freaks to come in this blog).

the next day i stayed in bed because i had a fever and felt sick so i read all of catcher in the rye, which i didn't love that much because i'm too much of an emotionally intelligent woman and have nothing of the emotionally demented teenage boy with which to connect. i just wanted to sit him down and have a serious talk about his issues and make him go for psychoanalysis. boys! really.

then the next day we stole our last breakfast and got frowned at by the heart of gold hostel staff for the last time, and took a train from berlin haptbahnhof in the direction of budapest to prague. it was ok, there was another staring man and a very hideous hulk-like man and an american man who gave me a book about ghosts for no reason which was ok i guess. and a kid with a mcKSHICken who despite our awful shicken experience still managed to make mayonnaise face look overly tempting and we thought about pulling him into pieces and eating him.

when we got to prague we had this disastrous experience of not being able to use our 1000 kroner notes (about 70AUD, and the only ones you could get from the atm) becuase nobody would change them, which you can read about on dan's blog, and the witch who kept doing a smile that was more like baring teeth at hansel and gretel as she fattens them in the cage. all detailed in dan's blog.

we're at a hostel called hostel advantage, which is ok, nice beds and nice big lockers but FULL OF FREAKS. we're sharing a dorm with 3 forty-five plus year old scottish men who all CAME SEPARATELY but SHARE A LOVE OF TALKING ON AND ON AND ON AND ON ABOUT SUPERMARKETS AND SOUP AND OTHER THINGS THAT START WITH SU AND SUCK AT 7AM AND SNORE ALL NIGHT AND GET TOO CLOSE. and there's a man who stays awake on his laptop all night and sometimes watches me while i sleep because i'm the only girl in the dorm. AAAARRRRGGGGHHHHH. czechoslovakian freaks. which made me have a panic attack and demand steve come here right now and be my man protector when dan leaves. but no! i will be strong and an ambassador for feminism.

we've been too digestively fucked and tired to do anything here so we've walked around shops, looked in h&ms, and seen movies. and paid $8 for hot chocolate. it's not cheap at all here. we saw hancock on our first night, which was not good, don't see it. then we saw the incredible hulk. which was incredible. HULK SMASH!!! ed norton is beautiful. i don't care what any reviewer says. it's awesome.

tonight we're going on a pub crawl we think, get some absinthe etc, but we could really just buy one and go see hulk smash again which i would like better actually, green liquid, green fairy, green monster you can just see how that would be a good night.

it's too touristy and boring to bother writing about prague. i wouldn't come here again. the architecture is cool but boy do they know it, it's basically 500 kroner everytime you look at a building. i'm not keen.

gotta run, this internet is more expensive than anywhere else in europe.

love you all homies, everyone comment!!!!!!!! tell me about your lives and what's happening and when my blog is boring. xoxoxoxo

6 comments:

Marita said...

45plus!!! THAT OLD - wow - that's real scary! (At least now I know what the young 'uns think of us when we stay in hostels....)
Hope things pick up for you soon in regards to tummy, hostel-friends and meeting the locals.

I thought you would have plenty of knowledge of emotionally demented teenage boys - it is worthwhile knowledge to store away for future reference.

Keep us posted on the "single female traveller" adventures.

Lots of Love, M

Anonymous said...

hello lovely, as you read this my ears are ringing and there's a consistent ticking in my head. Good China have been recording for the past two days and god do i respect real bands so much more. our gigs went really well and hopefully our next gig in august (we're headlining!) will be MASSIVE! next weekend i get to use Yonnie from Tripods harmonica to record. that's pretty exciting. maybe i'll catch some witty germs. you kinda crushed my dreams of prague there lovely. though i still have to go one day. miss you like the rain xx

steve... said...

Don't you go hating Prague too much, Jessie. It's a beautiful city... it's just fallen victim to extremes (Nazis, Communists, now Capitalists), so it's a little confusing. I remember it being quite cheap, so maybe you're doing your sums wrong! Remember 1 Australian Dollar = 14 Koruny. I'm sure it's getting more and more expensive as more and more of your (however slim and cultured) arsehole American fratboy tourists treat it as an nice stop on the way to Amsterdam. If you want to be more annoyed by growing capitalist tendencies, Cesky Krumlov (the tourist's favourite spot in Czech) looks like Movieworld. It's hilarious.

Anyway. I'm under the impression that Dan's leaving in a couple of days, and you're going to Munich. Hope to hear from you/see some photos of you in Prague before then!

xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo

Gyp said...

Thank-you for my postcard also. The muggles used this silly voice to read it to me - trying to sound like you - why oh why are they so condescending when they talk to me?? Don't they understand that I miss you too?! I hear tapping on the keyboard in your cubby and skid on the floor in my haste to see you, but all I see is other muggles using your PC!!
You never mention the other dogs you have met - are they nicer than me? Maybe they don't smell so much?
Life isn't too bad here - I get to stay inside lots 'cause Rob never gets off the couch to put me out.
Well, I'd better stop using this keyboard before they see me and sell me some kind of freak show.
Miss you lots
Woof

pk said...

Jess,
Hi baby. More fotos, even if they are upside down! i wanna see what you see. Glad you are feeling better, don't be afraid to have a down day to help you recover. You've got a lot more to see, do and experience yet. (Avoid Ally McBeal on down days though!) As for concentration camps... i think we all need to know they existed, and have a basic understanding of how they worked. Without that knowledge, we collectively are doomed to make the same horrid mistakes again. or else just remain ignorant. So i think it is compulsory knowledge but you don't have to go into it very deeply to appreciate the horror. I can't believe the yanks are better than the poms and aussies! i will never believe it. See "Get Smart" too when you can. Do they allow it behind the iron curtain? not sure, but see it if you can, it's good fun. Missed by "that" much...
ciao.
dad
p.s. Gyp does exaggerate things, i saw Robert get off the couch a couple of times last week...

++ jessenia ++ said...

gypeeee!!! im so glad you found my blog. no puppies even close to you. i miss you heaps and heaps. hope the legs are ok and no old men have tried to pat you in the street. see you soon bubba xoxoxo