It's been an adventurous two days! Monday I woke up at 8:30 for a fantastic class with Hemley. We started with an exercise instead of analyzing an essay which helped me wake up and start my week off well. I've realized how much time I've wasted and took the initiative to make small talk with Robin, good guy that he is. I think he's more shy than I am, but there's no better resource to have for a creative non-fiction writer than him. Because I guess that might be who I am now. A CNF writer? Maybe.

Post-workshop, we went to the BABY TOWER. Shomit, Lela, Fernando, and I trumped around town and ended up there, finally. It was a life-changing experience. The entire walk there we couldn't stop shrieking BABIES and throwing our hands into the air. I took tons of pictures and thought of Nate the whole time. The baby tower is the one thing I actually looked at before coming here (via wikipedia) and I still don't know the real name of it. Google "baby tower Prague" and you'll probably get it. Walking back Lela says, "I bet you're at, like, one million now. On the baby scale," and I giggled uncontrollably.

I then ran home to type frantically on my laptop for two hours, in an attempt to prepare for the student reading at a local bar. I came up with zero material, and resorted to reading my poem Camille and a journal entry from two years ago. I had a great time reading my pieces, and afterwards got so many unexpected comments. My favorite was Ryan's, "I could just see you, entirely, in the piece."

Afterwards we stayed a bit later than we probably should have, prancing around drinking pivo and yelling at one another. I went to bed much later than I should have, around 3:30 or 4, and still made it to my Czech language class on time at 9. Unlike some other people.

After class was a lecture, then Lela and I froliced around the city a bit. I bought a scarf, bracelet, and earrings from a nearby market. We got invited by a nice man named Milek to go see a classical string quartet in a big fancy church for free. He even pointed at a paper saying the student price was 450Kc. We ended up sitting in a cafe for literally three hours, talking and writing and drinking tea, then made it to the show exactly two minutes after it began. Milek still lead us inside, telling the ticket man, "These are two of my American friends, they're ok."

Tomorrow I'm going on a walking tour all about modernism. The biggest things I have on my list to quickly complete are the Museum of Medieval Torture Devices, a Mucha Exhibition, and the Sex Machines Museum. I can feel your jealousy radiating through your computer screen. You wish you were a Praguer.