where in the world is rahima?: prague

we arrived in prague 2 days ago. it is such a beautiful city!! it has a very old, european feel to it with its cobblestone streets, prague castle and old architecture. yesterday we visited the area where the castle is. we didn't go inside, but we had a chance to walk around it and enter a very old and ornate church. all the churches here in europe are so fancy. it is beautiful, but at the same time it makes me uncomfortable that churches can have so much money to make their buildings so ornate, yet people are starving. i know that churches are supposed to be honoring god and jesus and such, but i also think that you can honor god by using less money for the buildings and giving more to the people. but i am not religious, so maybe i just don't get it.

we are staying in a hostel dorm and have met some really cool people. annette and i are the only girls in our room, but the guys we are with are such fun. yesterday we went out with 3 of the guys and shook a tail feather. it was so cold and my acl hurt, so i didn't want to go out at first, but i am glad i did. we went to a couple of bars and then headed to do some dancing. i found my dancing kindred spirit in a young guy named thomas, from france. as i was out on the dance floor doing my interpretive dance, he participated. at one point he, his friend francois, and me were playing air guitar, drums, and singing to paradise city by guns and roses on the dance floor. it was so funny!!! i also met this slovakian guy at a bar who was talking to me about east coast and west coast rap. that was seriously hilarious! he knew way more than me, but really wanted my input. i haven't really listened to rap all that much in the recent past, but i tried to answer his questions as best i could. but i was beaten out when he started reciting lyrics from songs that i don't think i have ever heard. i have to say that nothing is weirder than hearing a guy with a strong slovakian accent "rap" about "bitches, hos, and niggas". very strange, indeed. we are here until tomorrow, and then we are off to krakow for a couple of days.

two of our roommates, stefano (the shirtless italian) and allen (the scottish guy)...both of them are absolutely hilarious together with their banter...