Day 5
I woke up after a long sleep to the sound of some of my roommates in the hostel leaving. I have actually be pleasantly surprised how easy it was being in hostels. I am not the most tolerate person when it comes to my personal space, and sure, the cramped shower only came up to my nose, and we were sleeping six to a room, but everyone I talked to while there was very nice, fun to chat with, and the place was clean, and had a lot of character. After I grabbed my stuff, I went downstairs and studied my score.
Courtney and I had breakfast, and then headed up to the airport (our meeting point for the beginning of the program). There we met Brent and Ian, later Matt showed up, then Chelsi. At 3 Peter, Liz, Bella, Charlotte, Nicole, and Spencer showed up, and we almost had the whole group. We sat and talked in the airport for an hour until Krzysztof joined us with our van, and we drove to Teplice. During the drive we caught up with Krzysztof, and talked about the next 20 days.
I include this picture only because when I told him to smile he responded with the line “I don’t smile for pictures”. His own line made him smile at the exact time I snapped the photo.
We arrived at the hotel, which is a sports lodging for teams that play in Teplice. We unpacked, and then walked down into town for dinner.
Just across from the restaurant was the theatre where we will be performing. Outside is the poster for our performances here.
We sat down, drank, and ate (in total this cost me only $8 CND) and talked. We told stories about our travels so far, and chatted about class next year.
If I thought the language barrier was bad in the Germany, it’s worse here. The population speaks less english, and I definitely speak less Czech. But, you make do. Mime, translators, and broken english gets the point across. For everything else we have Krzysztof and Norbert.
Any photo you see here that I’ve taken is one I’ve taken with my phone. I still don’t have photoshop back on my laptop, so they are even unedited. Because of this I’m taking way more photos then I ever intend to actually show. Most of them are blury, some are smudged from the phone being in my hand, and some are of my pocket.
I took a lot of photos today. When I got back to the hotel I went through them and marked 14 photos to possibly post. For the last five days usually as I go through the photos, I have a sense of what I want to talk about. Today I really wanted to talk about the clash of styles in Teplice, but as I went through the photos I realized that I didn’t have much to show that clash. So, I figured I would could find some pictures on google. Yet, when you google Teplice, all you can find are images of an idyllic spy town. It seems I wasn’t the only one only taking one kind of photo.
Well, I know what I can take photos of tomorrow.
Tomorrow we have costume fittings, music rehearsals, and our first staging rehearsals.








