FROM BRITTANY ANNE:
This weekend!
We started off this weekend bright and early Friday morning with a trip to the Bee Institute! About 15 students including me, weez, the roomsters, Kiley, Bradley, ro-ro, and all of our other friends rode a bus to a little town in the middle of nowhere outside of Prague. We then descended what seemed like a mountain through the forest and eventually ended up at several little buildings, which we were informed was the Bee Institute. IT WAS AWESOME. We got to see and learn all about European Honeybees all while bees buzzed around us wondering why in the world these crazy kids were peeking into their hive. Finally we got to eat the honey straight out off of the honeycomb… most delicious thing I have ever tasted!!! The beekeeper let us put a honeycomb into a centrifuge and we got to eat bread with the fresh and amazing honey. We also got to see the artificial insemination of a queen bee. That was….. interesting? :/ Anyways, after that we discovered baby kittens, and while it is well known that I do not like cats… the kittens were precious and there may or may not be pictures of me playing with them because they were just absolutely adorable! J That was just the beginning of another fantastic Pragian weekend. After that weez and I split ways and have two different stories to tell this week, here goes!
After we got back, we grabbed a bite to eat and then hopped on the metro to go to the bus for the weekend on the Organic Farm!! We got to the bus stop successfully and then we saw the line for our bus. The other bus didn’t come for two more hours, so Dana worked her magic and got us on! But the majority of us didn’t have seats. A lot of us stood and sat in the aisle for the hour long bus ride. It was interesting to say the least :)
Then we hopped off the bus and walked for an hour to get to the farm. This wasn’t that bad minus that the road the bus stopped on was SUPER busy and kind of scary at some points. We successfully walked there with all our baggage and were pretty tired by the time we got there. Then we arrived at Vladimir’s farm!
Anael had gone earlier in the day and started dinner for us. Before dinner, we all picked out rooms or hallways to sleep in the barn, which was really a nice refurbished barn with a loft. We ate delish soup and bread for dinner and then watched a movie on ways to reduce waste and what it’s doing to the Earth. It was really interesting and brought up a lot of points that made me think about how wasteful I can be every day. We tested out the dry toilets or outhouses that we had for the weekend. They actually weren’t that bad; it was a little funny getting used to them though.
We headed to bed rather quickly, after Bradley, Brad, Holly, McCrae, Ro-Ro, and I played two truths and a lie. After no one guessed Ro-ro’s, we headed to sleep. We had started a fire in the barn earlier in the night, but didn’t think far ahead enough…we FROZEEEE. It got really cold at night, so we didn’t sleep too well.
We woke up at 7 to get started on our day of work. Kiley and I helped Anael with breakfast and then the work started. Vladimir has big dreams for his farm, so he had a lot for us to do, which was nice. Bradley and I shoveled dirt from this one area that covered bricks into a wheelbarrow and then brought it to Kiley’s group to spread in the garden. We took a break for lunch, which was one of the most satisfying meals ever. We were all already worn out from working in the sun all morning and that made the food taste that much better.
Then we had exploring time! We took a 3 hour hike around the area. There were awesome sandstone boulders everywhere.
We got to the top and there was a 360 view of where we were.
We could see little towns everywhere and could even see Germany! We also saw tons of blueberries bushes…too bad they’re not in season yet. Dr.Bob also showed us some awesome legumes on the walk. He found alfalfa blooming too. He is the most precious man ever, seriously.
Then we had a campfire! Thanks to our boy scout (Mark) and those who were never really boy scouts (Kyun & Cameron), we had a huge fire and roasted sausage and peppers. We also had this delicious dip that Anael made and more soup and bread.
We went to bed pretty early again because we had to wake up at 6:30 on Sunday. We had another day of work, where Brad, Holly, Kiley, and I moved shingles and then cleaned out a room in Vlad’s house. Sometime in the future, he wants this room to be a dance hall! Holly and Brad moved more shingles, while Kiley and I swept.
We had another fantastic lunch and then had sharing time. After an hour walk back, we hopped on the bus to take it back to Prague!
Brittany will post about her weekend here when she gets a chance:
I was warmly received by my long lost roomies, who I missed dearly. We ALL went to Sorrento’s for dinner (DUH), which was delicioso as usual (DUH)
Today, I did laundry for the first time! It was quite the adventure and I’m so glad to have clean clothes. We headed to the Institute for a meeting and to study. I FINALLY met Forrest’s parents and I can’t wait until he gets here on the 17th!
I also went to the doctor today. I’ve been sick for a while and thought I was getting better, but then got worst blah blah blah…so I went. McCrae had an appointment anyways, so I just tagged along. I was seen really quickly. It was funny because the doctor was dressed in straight up normal clothes, but then just threw on a lab coat when we walked in. He did the normal blood pressure stuff and listened to my heart with his stethoscope. Basically, he didn’t like how my lungs sounded and I have to go back. He gave me some drugs to help with the cough, but we’ll see. By the way, the insurance plan the school gave us is phenomenal! We don’t have to pay a dime! (minus what we already paid for it)
I just ate some dinner of [bread and cheese] and some[ nutella and banana]- not all together :)
Off to finish reading The Trial!
pictures to come too!
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