things i've discovered about european living...

hello all. happy friday...well, it's friday for me. we have a 4 day weekend basically. i am a bit bummed to report we didn't end up getting to go to budapest. it was about 100 bucks to go, and i decided that i would have had to sell my liver, or convince sara to sell hers, so we are taking multiple road trips to outter czech cities instead. whadda bumma. ho humm. what can ya do? i almost put in my last 5 koruna (crown - the currency here) in a casino tonight at a metro station, but thought it wouldn't be worth the chance of being 5 koruna poorer. 

i did decided, however, as i was waiting on my lesson with josef, my one-on-one english student i am teaching, that i would make a list of things that i have discovered odd, or rather unusual at least to me, about european living. here goes:

• the word for no here is 'nay' and every time i say it i feel like a horse....  "would you like some gum?" NAAAAY.
• they all think that when you spit dip out of your mouth it hits a bucket and goes "ping"... yeah.
• everyone thinks we ride horses in texas and have shootouts and saloons. 
• the metro is phenomenal... but not at 5pm when the majority of people get off work and get on the metro... and all subconsciously forgot to put on deodorant... or take a bath... 
• this place has a history...and it means something to them. i love that. 
• instead of flies here, they have bees, and they think absolutely nothing of them. they just go on about their business.
• motorcycles are just as obnoxious here as the are in the states.
• beer is cheaper than water... but in order to drink it all day they have it at a low concentration. thoughtful 'eh?
• no country outside of the US believes in freaking refills... this perturbs me greatly. and because of it, i have learned to ration the amount i drink during a meal - not a fun thing to learn. 
• clothing is always wrinkled (i'd fit in well here, maw)
• unlike in Texas when i solute someone in their native tongue, they just look at me like i'm an idiot.
• i can say whatever i feel like wherever i feel like saying it and not be cautious of anyone getting upset... b/c chances are, they don't understand a word i'm saying!
• for some odd reason, they are absolutely obsessed with this goolash crap. i suppose if i'd been fed it from a bottle as a wee pup like them, i'd enjoy it just as much. yick. disssssgusting!
• there is an odd selection of clothing around here. one of which sara and i deemed the "skants" catagory, as it was a pair of pants extremely baggy to the knees then as tight as a cucumber all the way down the legs - - - how that chick was walking was unbeknownst to me. 

these are just a few of the things i've come to discover. there are a myriad of others, but this list will suffice until later. in the mean time, i ought to get some shut eye. hope you are all doing mind-numbingly (<-- great adjective, 'eh?!) well!

dobry noc,

- kam-dogg.