Back to Prague

So after a good amount of traveling, I am back here in Prague. Yesterday was a rather stressful return from my vacation in Barcelona. I had an 11 am meeting at my internship about trying to start European Union clubs in high schools in Bohemia and possibly Moravia. And I went to the academic center so I could get some reading done for my upcoming midterms but I ended up lying on the couch by the sunny window and doing leisure reading: the revealing Iraq section in Foreign Affairs journal, the Economist, National Geographic, and the New Presence’s article comparing the EU with the USA as world powers. It was a glorious return back to Prague and everything that academia should be – but I still have to study for those midterms.

And then I fell asleep and when I woke up, the center was closing and I had to buy a phone card and it was raining. And it was a laborious search for a phone card – in the rain. And I got quite flustered to say the least. And then there was a traffic jam when I was on tram. And I had to walk in the rain from the metro station. And on an angry whim, I said I was going to buy myself a bag of chips. (But I bought popcorn.) And it was such delicious fury that I felt at my return to Prague.

Things that I still must do:
Figure out housing in Lafayette with Dorian
Figure out my class schedule for next semester – without much help from my advisor since I am abroad
Study for the midterms
Write a letter to all high schools in Bohemia
Proofread a letter for my internship
And I decided against running for class president

Anyway I just wanted to express what it is like to return to a vacation from a vacation – they really aren’t vacations. Just different places where I still have the same pressures. And I am loving every minute of it.