Beginnings

Tomorrow (or later today, I should say) will be the last time I wake up in the United States until mid-may. It sounds crazy when you put it like that. The longest I've ever been away from the country is one week. Welp, that's about to change.

I have no idea what you would call this emotion. Part nervous, part excited, part anxious. Thing is, I'm ready to get the heck out of here. It's a weird feeling waiting so long for something to come. Sometimes it feels like it never will, but alas, that day always shows up, whether you are ready or not.

Besides the lack of Czech I know, I'm as ready as I ever could be. Of course, I'm overpacked, being the eagle scout (a bunch of people from Chico just laughed) that I am. Speaking of all you Chico people, the last thing I packed was an ultimate-disc, so the love can be spread in Prague. Maybe I'll start up a little Friday afternoon game when I get there...

The flight leaves at 2:10 pm out of San Francisco and I fly eleven hours over to friendly Germany, landing in Frankfurt, where I have the privelage of spending an hour and 50 minutes in their airport. It's too bad I won't have a good friend there to make fun of all the German accents with. Is it true that German's just naturally sound angry all the time because of their language? I guess I'll find out tomorrow.

If all goes to plan my Resident Advisor, Jan, will be there waiting for me and the other USAC students waiting to take us to our apartments. It'll be one in the afternoon, Czech time, and I'm sure I will probably be able to sleep standing up in the middle of the airport, I'll be so tired.

So I'm at the point where I'm rambling about nothing interesting, so at this juncture of the Pragueblogue I will kindly bid you all adieu. I will miss you all, and I hope you all stay in touch through the wonderful world of the internet and skype and of course our good friend facebook. I'll post often, and take lots of pictures. I will leave you with a spontaneous, random list of 10 things I will miss:

1. 2% milk- (I hear milk over there isn't homogenized so it tastes nasty, and if you know me and my love of milk, you know how devastating this is for me...but, I will indeed press on...)
2. Lola- I'm going to miss all the drives we had together... I hope she keeps well in the care of my family...
3. Concerts- Going 4-5 months with a show is rough for me. I'm sure that I'll see some interesting live stuff in Prague and other areas, but it will probably be in a language I don't understand or some crazy DJ playing Euro-pop or something.
4. American cinema- You know me and movies. But hey, I'll get to see Indiana Jones right when I come back, so I'll be okay.
5. Mexican food- Because I doubt they have good mexican grub in the Czech Republic.
6. Bidwell pres and all the door people- You guys make the world go 'round.
7. Chico State and it's fine film program. (Oh wait...)
8. Not the rain. (It snows in Prague!)
9. People who speak English.
10. Sports (watching them, playing them, whatever. I'm going to a land where the sport of choice is Soccer. Maybe I'll get into it, but its no football americano...)

With that, Na shledanou! (Goodbye!)