Well, there is much to update on! First, the program. While, like any other, it has its annoying administrative hitches where you sit there scratching your head and thinking, "Really? There's no other way you could have tried to organize this?" for the most part it's been great. My suitemates,...

There was a little gravel path for pedestrians, and behind it were little patches of well kept grass and large bushes with some sort of pink flowers. Though there was a chain to prevent people from going on the grass, as well as a sign in Czech saying the same, we started straight for the green....

The sun was disguised behind thin clouds in the sky, revealing only the glow of the yellow star, without the glare most sunglasses prevent a percentage of. The mountainous Hungarian towns that zoom past puff smoke, most likely for cooking or warmth. The sun is not shining bright enough to show much of...

Six... ...hours until the next train arrives, I think as I watch the aging coaches slip past and continue west. As the din of the engine leaves me alone on the platform I start to wonder if my adventurous nature has gotten the better of me this time. Here I am, standing in the rusty train depot...

The Cast: Stu, Kev.not stu, big cat, and frankies

This is the true story:

Of four non-strangers, 25 years in age (actually, the geriatric cat is 26), not-picked to live in an apartment, but living in an apartment nonetheless, not-picked to not-work together, and have their lives taped (confessional...

Such a cool city. Without actually knowing where the movie was filmed, this the city surroundings make me feel like Jason in the Bourne Identity and/or Supremacy. (Only without any discernible self-defense skills, an attractive women running around with me or a bullet wound in my back). Although, I suppose...

So.. Taking a page from Valerie's play-book (eg: her recent blog), I want to throw out my potential itinerary if I get the job I've been waiting to hear back from in the next few days. This trip is a direct response to my last days of unmitigated freedom from a work schedule, and also to treat myself...