Sunday, July 27, 2008

Well, friends, it's over. Caroline is no longer in Prague. My entries began to dwindle because I decided to fill my time with people instead of computers for my last week. Shoshana said she thinks she got a total of 10 hours of sleep for the week and first I laughed, but then I realized she's probably fairly accurate with that statement. Yesterday we were all so sleep deprived we could not function. Honestly.
We wandered the streets of Prague in search of crepes, row boated on the Vltava, ate at a beautiful and terribly expensive restaurant on the water, stayed up until 2, then had a massive sleep over in my room: Amanda, Shannon, Sho, Rich, Caroline. Except I was a punk and mostly slept in the lobby, too distracted to sleep when they did. I stayed up later, wandered around outside soaking in my last night.
We woke up at five to make it to the airport on time. I don't know who was crying when or how hard, but it happened. I felt very terrible the past two days in terms of health, so I took a Dramamine to help me sleep. When I woke up I was in the worst condition I've been in for years. I had an insane fever, even without a thermometer. My skin burning but I felt so horribly cold. I toughed it out through the flight and by the time we landed I was just aching like mad. When I got back home, three hours later, I ran a temperature of 100.4

Pish posh.

Now that I'm back in Michigan, it feels like Prague never happened. Which is why it's good I kept this, and many other, record of my stay there. I filled one Moleskine and began a second-- the second was about 12 pages in, 12 pages of glory including a huge reading list I accumulated from classes. And what did I do while sitting on our second plane from Amsterdam to Detroit? I realized I left my second Moleskine in the pocket of the seat ahead of me on the plane from Prague to Amsterdam. WTF. My fingers are crossed that someone finds it and emails me, asking how to get it back to me. It's so depressing to have lost that. There were words in it; they were mine.

Now I am sweating like crazy because it's hot in Michigan. So glad Shoshana's staying the night because I need some validation that the past month really happened. Tomorrow we'll already (hopefully) have a reunion to see Black Knight, because it hasn't come out in Europe yet and we're all pumpeddddddd.

Love.

1 comment:

richard_jefferson said...

it's the "dark knight" ;)

It happened.
Prague marked us more than any bruise or bite.
My world is brighter for knowing you,
But it's colder for not having you here.
To speak with,
laugh with,
to hold,
to kiss.
I am not content to sit, to wait.
I will find you again.
New memories will be formed.
Old memories rekindled.

Nothing so bright,
so vibrant
can ever truly fade.

A smile was born into this world which will stay long after we ourselves are gone.

love you caroline :)