greetings from prague

hello world from prague!

just a brief note to let those of you who read this and haven't gotten a call from me (i.e. not my family) that we arrived just fine... after a horribly long delay in amsterdam but whatever.

yesterday i showed the reu students around what i remembered from my last stay here -- charles bridge and the really cool astronomical clock in the old town square... very cool indeed...

and then we crashed at like 8pm.

we're living on the 11th story of a 15 story dorm for medical students... the elevator is like a closet and has no front wall, so you see the floors and doors go past (and rub against them if you get too close) -- i *love* eastern europe :-P,... food that would cost like $15 in the states is like a $3 meal here... it's fantastic... and they just gave us each like $350 a piece in czech krowns for our stay too.... only breakfast is covered at the dorm, and lunch is covered by the conference, so they gave us more than enough cash a piece.

math conference begins in 10 minutes...

by the way, while i'm in europe... to know what time it is for me, take the timestamp on my european posts (which is in eastern time = greenwich mean time +5 hours, and add 6 hours... central european time is greenwich mean time -1 hour)... e.g. for those of you in jersey, it's 3:45 right now... here, 9:45... and i'm actually already functioning on europe time... it's great!

czech words i can handle so far: thank you, good day, yes, no, fat (we bought milk yesterday and tried to get someone who only spoke czech to explain how the different kinds were different), castle, bridge... that all gets me a long way, eh?

now, to go hear lots of math :P