Anyway, the last few days in Prague were great. Thursday, my flatmates and friends took a bus trip to Plzen, home of the world famous Pilsner Urquell brewery, the birthplace of pilsner beers. Unlike the Heineken “Experience” in Amsterdam, this was a tour of an actual working brewery, where the produce up to 60,000 bottles per hour, on only one of two bottle lines plus a line for cans. It is an impressive brewery, with large modern tanks for the beer to mature in bordering historic buildings of the old brewery.
Our tour took us through the history of the town and beer, through the working factory where we saw beer as it was bottled, through the old cellars where we got to sample fresh, unfiltered Pilsner (pretty amazing), and around the old brewhouses. It was a great last trip to take with all my friends.
Unfortunately, my camera battery was dead, so I have nothing to show. Hopefully my friends will put some pictures on facebook and that will be that. We finished up Thursday night with one last outing at Radost, one of our most popular night spots. It was extremely late, but a great way to say goodbye to Prague.
Yesterday, our program concluded with a boat cruise on the Vltava River. Everyone who was still in Prague came, along with some of our Czech partners, including mine, Tereza! I hadn’t seen her for a long time so it was nice to catch up.
Scenes from the boat cruise, as Seth and I are really thoughtful.
The weather has been awful in Prague through May, but luckily the rain held off for the afternoon as we enjoyed a slightly different view of Prague. The cruise also made me realize that part of this whole experience had nothing to do with the place of things I was seeing. It had everything to do with meeting some great people along the way, which is not a huge reason why I wanted to study abroad but something great to come out of it nevertheless.
Me with Hannah, Seth and Ahbra, and Tereza
It was weird saying goodbye to everyone, because I truly don’t know who I will ever see again in my life. Luckily, there are a lot of Michigan kids on my program, so I will definitely see them. And because there are a lot of us and we got to the only “big” school in our program, lots of people want to come visit for football games or hockey weekends or just to see us. So, I’m looking forward to Moses, Dave, Sophie, Rachel, Ben, Drew, and more coming to visit. Hopefully I’ll see them all before then in NYC or Washington, DC this summer, but you never know.
Thank you to the random man from Curacao who donated his leftover Internet minutes to me (no thank you to Delta/KLM). Therefore, I can post. He thought I was from Ireland! Which I guess I’ll take as a compliment, as I’m wearing the most euro-thing I could so that my family all looks at me strangely when I walk in the door.
The final post is next.
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