Bad Timing
9/1/10
Five months of traveling! Wow. Yesterday was up and down. I was not happy about the night before, but I forced myself to get outside and walk around. I left Katerina’s place around 11am and went into the city. It was a rainy day, and I couldn’t go back to Kat’s because I didn’t have keys, so I was out in it for the day.
I really enjoyed walking around in the rain with my thoughts–I just decided not to worry about the rain and relax about being wet. It was liberating. Prague is a beautiful city, one of the most beautiful I have seen in Europe. The architecture, with domes and spires, was stunning, and there is also so much more color in the buildings than in other places.
I walked to the park and got caught in heavy rain. I took refuge under the tram bridge and met two very sweet Russian girls there who helped me pay for the ticket up to the top (so I didn’t have to walk) and went up to the top of Prague tower with me for a beautiful view of the city. I enjoyed the company and we split up after that.
I spent more time walking around until I needed to meet Katerina for a movie back near her place. It was supposed to be me, her, and her roommate, but her roommate wasn’t feeling well and it was just the two of us. She paid for us (which was really nice of her) and it was a good move, albeit weird. The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus.
We went back and the night took a bit of a worse turn. Kat skyped the guy again–when she told me she would be talking to him the night before she made it sound as if it were only for that night, but that turned out not to be the case–and it was so unbearable for me that it drove me to an hour’s walk in the cold to get away. Between that and the fact that she was working during the days (she’s a teacher) I felt very in the way and decided that it would be better for me to sleep at a hostel the next night. I didn’t tell her yet, but she knew something was up. She tried to get me to talk to her but I wasn’t ready to at that point, and we went to bed shortly after that.
