miscommunication breeds tiredness

so, last post, i detailed my crazy saturday to Krivoklat and back.

Saturday morning, two other Czech students who didn't go on the crazy Saturday trip suggested a Sunday trip to Kutna Hora, which sounded great at the time.... when we returned to our dorm at 11:30pm on Saturday, tired, muddy, and exhausted, we read the email about Sunday closer -- they wanted to meet us at 7:45am at the main train station (30-40 minutes of public transportation from the dorm)... that sounded painful sleep-wise, so one of my students looked up the cellphone number of one of the organizers for the Sunday trip and requested to roll it back to 9:45,... she got voicemail but asked him to email us if that was ok, otherwise, we'd drag ourselves out of bed early.

not knowing if the Czech students would get our message in time, Megan, Ben, and I decided that we would be up by 6 to check email and still go on the trip on practically no sleep if they didn't write us back (it would be a shame for NO ONE to show up for a cool trip just because of the previous day's activities, right?)... so at 6:45, ben and i (on 4 hours of sleep each), and megan (on 15 minutes of sleep... she alex, and natalia were partying downtown most of the night) headed to the train station... we waited until 8, got back to the dorm exhausted at 8:40 and checked email, only to discover that the Czechs emailed us 3 minutes after we left the dorm saying 9:45 was ok by them.

alas, the pain of not having cellphones....

that said, ben and megan decided to go back to sleep rather than make 2 trips to the train station in one day... i, having been up since 5:30 was determined to go see i silver mine no matter how little sleep i had... and with the later time, kelsey and elizabeth joined instead.

we moved sloooooooooowly all day, but we toured a really cool cathedral, a silver mine, and an ossuary (there's an old monastary in kutna hora where they took part of the graveyard and made it into something else, so the remains of 40,000 people who died in the plagues and the hussite wars a few centuries ago were sanitized and whitewashed and used to make the decor of the place. it's soooo many bones that it's not exactly possible to process that they're really human... it was a strange place.

after our adventure to the east, we headed back to prague to meet up with everyone else for the krizik fountain... it's a fountain lightshow that runs 4 times a night every night and i had seen it last year. this year we watched a show set to dvorak's new world symphony. it was quality.

all that said, you've read my weekend... with two crazy adventures outside of prague, and all of 4 hours of sleep between the two, i'm exhausted. but hey, i'm seeing things i've never seen before for all the time i've spent in czech republic in the past, and that's fantastic. :)

yay europe.

math lecture time.

the end. :P