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Last Day

After 32 days in Europe, it unfortunatly is time for me to head back home to reality, ie looking for a job and attemping to start my new life as an "adult". Im not going to lie, Im not looking forward to ditching this Peter Pan-esk life style. I dont think grown-up is a good look for me. Just saying. Last night there was a ridiculous thunderstorm. Right outside my window is a massive construction crane and at some points I thought the lightning was going to hit it. I got some amazing pictures though. After getting all of my things together eariler today, I headed off to the English Gardens with Fabian to relax, swim, and enjoy the Isar river. It was so nice just sitting in the shade, reading and being apart of the local city scene... its all so bitter sweet when I know Ill be cramped into a plane for about 16 hours tomorrow. So my friends\family, by this time tomorrow my feet will be firmly planted on USA soil and I will be back. I look forward to seeing\talking to you soon!!

Let Me Count the Ways...

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...of why I love Munich. I remembered how much I loved this city, but upon arrival, I remebered the amount. In my opinion, this is the best city in Europe (that I have seen thus far). The history, buildings, the people, everything here screams to me "you know you want to move here". It is my San Francisco of Europe. After wandering around for the last few day I am seriously considering of looking for a job here in one of the Universitiey or something when I get back to the states... Sunday. After saying goodbye to Vienna and a 4 hour train ride (with no ploblems, love German trains) I arrived in a very very hot Munich. They have been having a crazy heat wave here and thunderstorms that are wild. On the first night my friends family and I did the typical Bavarian night; we packed up a picnic, rode our bikes to the local beer garden and had dinner accompanied by a few liters of beer and a live poka band. God I love this place. On Monday I had a Frauentag with my friends

Why Hello Mister President

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Vienna!!! I have made my way back to German speaking countries and Im loving it. It is so bice being able to participate in simple, basic conversations again. I got in last night without any super crazy Czech train problems, although at one point we stopped on the tracks for about 25min and I had no idea why. After amazing Turkish food (something the States needs to get btw) I settled in to watch my Germans dominate Spain..... but did this happen? No. What the heck Germany? It was strangly reminicent of 2 years ago at the EU Cup. So now I hope Spain gets their butt kicked by the Orange Army!!!! Today I was super excited to explore this city (thanks to the trusty map Amber left behind for me) and boy did it not let me down. It is such a romantic and beautiful city. I took the underground over to the center of the city and just wandered around. Stunning catherdrials, buildings, gardens and history. There is a consert of Mozarts work by the Philharmonic at St. Stephen's Cathedral

Last days in the Czech

After wandering around this little city for 2 days I am ready to say goodbye and head off to Vienna tomorrow morning. A point of interest; the train system in the Czech is about as good as they are in Italy. For those of you who don't know what Im talking about, let me put it this way, they are normally late, run down and dysfunctional. Like my ride getting here. We left the station 10 mins late, for some reason half way through the ride we had to get off at some random place (not a train station may I add) in the Czech, take a bus for 20mins, get back on a train leave that station late, arrive at the intended destination 45 min late, take the next train running 15 min late which had wooden benches as seats. I swear the theme of this trip is "how interesting can my traveling get"... haha. So I am off to concur the Czech train system again tomorrow. I have 3 train transfers to get to Vienna... so the potential for mishap is quiet high...

An American 4th of July in the Czech

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Ahhh Cesky Krumlov.... Im Krum-loving it! Such a cute little town, very small and quaint. With lots of swimming :) Which always makes this girl happy. The first day I got here I was on a mission to see the Germany vs Argentina game... 4-0! What what!!! I randomly met 2 guys from Nevada and a couple from Australia during the game and hung out with them all night. The two guys actually run the pub crawls in Prague and were having their whole crew coming in for the weekend to hang out and go rafting, and they invited me along! Yesterday on July 4th I went water rafting for 6 hours down the Vltava River with about 10 Americans, 1 Irish and 1 Canadian, junk food and more beer than was ever needed. I think oddly enough it was the most stereotypical 4th of July I have ever had and I was in the Czech Republic... It was a holiday weekend here in the Czech so everyone was out to have a good time and there were so many people on the river doing the same thing and it was a freak'n blast!!!

Exploring Prague

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Yesterday Amber and I were on a MISSION; a mission to bargain shop. I found a local market called Pražská tržnice, that is right outside of the main city. This thing was massive, but we got amazing prices on lots of stuff that we would have been charged triple the price in the tourist areas. Later that night Am and I went to go see our very first Opera (I know, how cultured am I right?). We scored $5 tickets in the nose bleed section, but it still had a great view. The performance was interesting, the music, beautiful. Very Cold War-esk (several references of 'Mother Moscow' clued me in on that one), but overall very enjoyable. Today Am and I were both draggggggging our feet, solution? Hang out in the park reading and eating sandwiches. Nevertheless, since we are only here for a short time and had not even seen the other side of the city, we went on a free tour of the Castle and the surrounding area. We got our butt kicked on a 2.5 hr long tour, and let me tell you, I had m