humpty dumpty sat on a wall. watch the wall fall. humpty and all.. ... . ?

I just got back this morning at 7.30 from our class trip to Prague, Terezin, and Berlin. I could tell all about it, but that will just get so long no one will read it. So instead, I'll just name some high and lowlights.

lowlights:

• Staying at what Peter called a five star hotel that just lost four of its stars.
• the rain we had almost all week
• our monotonous over-informational Prague tour guide who did have an umbrella and thus didn't shorten her speeches for the sake of those who didn't, making us stand in the rain looking at buildings and bridges while she explained things in her thick accent we could hardly understand.
• this clock tower our tour guide hyped up saying it did something special at 3... then after waiting in anticipation, finding out nobody comes out of the clock with a hammer smashing something coming from the other side. Instead some little figures of the apostles or saints or something spin slowly past two little windows at the top of the clock. They don't even come out!
• The photo-nazi women who wouldn't let us take pictures in the castle we visited.
• The castle itself, which was pretty unimpressive.
• someone taking a shit in the bus bathroom and stinking the whole bus up!
  

highlights:

• our awesome bus driver named Peter.
• the hotel rooms with balconies (which we could only get onto through the window because they sealed the doors) that were close to the balcony of the room next door so you could climb from balcony to balcony if you dared.
• The "love room".
  
• the palace guards in Prague who stood absolutely still. We took our pictures next to them and when two of our girls posed like they were going to kiss one of them, the guard slammed his long gun on the ground, scaring the crap out of them!

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• The wine tasting at 10am in the castle basement.
• The Theatre Image in Prague - I don't care if no one else liked it. It was trippy in a fun way.
• visiting a former concentration camp in Terezin... or perhaps this is a gutter?
• BERLIN!! I loved it!
• Seeing the difference between East and West Berlin.
  
• Seeing the small remaining portion of the Berlin wall with all the colors and paintings - now called the East Side Gallery.

• eating a crepe with nuttella and baileys in front of the TV Tower.
• getting on a train at the last minute while half our group didn't make it. Then being accidentally reunited because the train line was under construction so the train only went halfway to our destination and then went back where it came from - all the while we had no idea what was going on.
• Seeing Marcus eat it in front of the Reichstag building and later hear him try to explain his muddy clothes with some crazy story about saving a baby...

• The long 'lekker' nap I took when I got home!
  

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